Hardik Pandya created havoc in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, single-handedly led the team to an impossible victory.

Hardik Pandya: The auction for the Indian Premier League 2025 is going to be held on 24th and 25th November, but just before that, the big cricketers of the Indian team are making waves in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the most prestigious tournament in the T20 format of domestic cricket. While Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Verma have scored stormy centuries, Hardik Pandya has given an impossible victory to his team by playing a brilliant innings.

Hardik played a stormy innings

Hardik Pandya is playing a domestic tournament after a long time. He is playing for Baroda in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In the match played with Gujarat, Hardik played a brilliant innings and helped the team win by 5 wickets. Baroda needed 39 runs to win in the last 16 balls. Hardik gave the team victory in just 3 balls by continuously hitting sixes and fours. Hardik scored unbeaten 74 runs in 35 balls which included 6 fours and 5 sixes.

THE SIX HITTING OF HARDIK PANDYA. 🥶 pic.twitter.com/NeomI5KahR

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 23, 2024

THE CRAZE FOR HARDIK PANDYA AT INDORE. 🙇

– The MVP of finishing, Hardik. pic.twitter.com/vfNL64d5b9

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 23, 2024

a look at the match

Batting first, Gujarat scored 184 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Arya Desai had scored the maximum of 78 runs in 52 balls, hitting 3 sixes and 9 fours. With the help of Hardik's unbeaten 74 and Shivalik Sharma's 64 runs, Baroda achieved the target in 19.3 overs at the loss of 5 wickets.

Relief for Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians had retained Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma for the Indian Premier League 2025. Jaspreet Jahan is wreaking havoc in Australia. Whereas Tilak Verma has scored 3 consecutive centuries in T20. Now Hardik Pandya's stormy innings has proved that Mumbai Indians, who performed poorly last season, are going to be a big threat this time.

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