Slamming Hardik Pandya’s performance in the ongoing Test series against England, India spinner Harbhajan Singh said the 24-year-old doesn’t deserve to be referred to as an all-rounder. Pandya has scored 90 runs in four innings and has managed to pick 3 wickets in the series so far.
“He (Hardik Pandya) hasn’t got many runs as a batsman and the captain doesn’t seem to have confidence in his bowling. If he doesn’t bowl in these conditions then things will only get difficult for him and the Indian team in the future,” Harbhajan told.
“We have to remove the all-rounder tag from him as an all-rounder contributes in both the departments as Stokes, Curran did in the first Test and now Woakes has done at the Lord’s. The same is expected of Hardik Pandya, he cannot become Kapil Dev overnight!,” the spinner added.
After losing the first Test at Edgbaston, India suffered a humiliating innings and 159 runs loss at the hands of England in the second Test at Lord’s.
Pandya has played 9 Tests so far and scored 458 runs at an average of 32.71, including one century and three fifties.
