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The arrogance of an overpaid underachiever called Hardik Pandya

Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
20 February 2022
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Hardik Pandya, IPL, Fame, Overachiever

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Hardik Pandya is an overpaid underachiever who has massive attitude problems. In recent news, Hardik Pandya has refused to play the four-day long Ranji Trophy. Traditionally, dedicated cricketers who are in the field for the love of the game focus on building their fundamentals in training academies. They then go on to hone their skills in regional championships, followed by national-level face-offs between various teams during Ranji Trophy. 

Earlier players with strong fundamentals and honed skill-set were allowed to enter the national team. In the national team, consistency, stability and performance were prerequisites to remain a part of the squad.

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In the past decade, cricket has transformed from being a gentleman’s game into one where ruffians and exaggerated entertainers are celebrated. Hardik Pandya represents all that is wrong with cricket today. Allegedly recuperating from a back injury since 2021, Hardik Pandya has been unavailable for the Indian team. Soon, however, he will magically appear out of thin air – fit as a fiddle. This will be when he captains the Gujarat Titans team in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

Hardik Pandya and IPL

IPL means cash, and cash means Hardik Pandya. Why would Hardik Pandya even think of sweating during the Ranji Trophy when a new IPL season stares him in the face? Hardik Pandya is set to see a salary hike and added responsibility as he is on his way to leading the Ahmedabad-based franchise.

As per Cricbuzz, Pandya will have a staggering salary of Rs 15 crore, which is Rs 4 crore more than his previous salary. In 2015, Hardik Pandya had joined Mumbai Indians for a salary of Rs 10 lakh, which by the end of his stint with the team, went up to 11 crores.

IPL Paves the Way for Pandya’s Entry into National Team

Hardik Pandya caught Virat Kohli’s eye, after which he was inducted into the national team to have the time of his life. But being a man with a larger-than-life personality; overawed by the glamour of the cricketing world and as an avid believer of funky hairstyles, Hardik Pandya really failed to make his mark as a consistent, skilled and performing player.

Many players today perform very well in T-20 matches because unfortunately, their goal is to secure big deals from the IPL franchise year after year. Big brands, promotions, collaborations and IPL auctions have come to define cricket today. Perseverance, having nerves of steel, staying on the crease for long periods of time to play a meaningful knock have all become concepts alien to entertainers masquerading as cricketers.

Cricket has become a game where money has become King. Focussing on IPL matches – where each player aims to perform in not more than five overs has severely hampered the ability of star-studded players to stand a chance in Test and ODI formats. 

Hardik Pandya’s career, many feel, is over as far as the national team is concerned. That does not seem to bother the man, who is clearly very determined to perform well in IPL alone. It is perhaps for this reason that BCCI’s chief selector Chetan Sharma on Saturday said Pandya will be considered for selection immediately, but only when he is 100 per cent fit. He also said the selection panel cannot take a call on his comeback until they have proper confirmation of his fitness and bowling.

How is it that Pandya is unfit to play for the national team, while he is ready to entertain Indians during the upcoming IPL season? This beats all logic. One reason could be that Pandya knows he cannot perform for the national team in ODI and Test matches, which is why he is choosing to stay out of the selection process itself. 

A lot of players who have made it to the national team have done so solely on the basis of their spectacular IPL performances. IPL, however, does not produce cricketers. It produces entertainers. It does not prepare players for meaningful matches that require grit, skill, knowledge of the game and patience. Playing big shots mindlessly, and playing calmly with variations of defensive and offensive shots is what differentiates an entertainer from a cricketer. 

Read more: How cricket transformed from a gentleman’s game to a game of ruffians

Ranji Trophy is considered boring. It does not get much coverage and does not pay well. So, it makes no sense for an entertainer like Hardik Pandya to play such a tournament. 

Hardik Pandya is not new to controversies related to perverted sexual behaviour. He has openly boasted about his sexual misadventures on national television. His undisciplined behaviour coupled with his inflated ego due to his marketing team’s presentation of a larger-than-life aura of the man has resulted in a decline in his fitness levels, which in turn have led to poor performances. Once touted as Kapil Dev’s successor, Pandya has been reduced to a pale shadow of his original self.

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Comments 6

  1. James bond says:
    3 years ago

    The tone of the author appears to be quite sanctimonious and dare I say even envious.

    Whether a player decides to play or not to play a competition is a personal decision. People prioritising one competition over another isn’t restricted to India. Further, the work load of a fast bowling all rounder is extremely rigorous. There’s a reason you don’t see too many fast bowling all rounders going around these days. The ones that do go around are plagued by injuries. Ben Stokes Andre Russell and Kieron Pollard are prime examples.

    Coming to the IPL money, IPL has made cricket a viable profession for loads of Indian cricketers for whom getting into the Indian team was a long shot. It has provided them with financial security. Just think of people like T Natarajan or Siraj or even Hardik Pandya came from extremely poor backgrounds. IPL has helped push more people into the gain. The Mumbai Indians saw something in the man when they purchased him and going by his IPL record, they’re bets have paid off.

    IPL has provided India with a lot of cricketing talent. Jasprit Bumrah for instance is an IPL find. He’s arguably the worlds best. The man hardly played Ranji.

    It just feels like the author is projecting his dislike, maybe even envy, for a player to trash an entire competition. But then again he’s just an aspiring journalist.

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  2. Abcde says:
    3 years ago

    He doesn’t have fitness to last 4 days match. He knows his body can last only 20 overs of rigors. There are many ppl who are overpaid so nothing wrong with him choosing what and where he wants to play .

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  3. Muradi says:
    3 years ago

    Raina is a contrasting case for study. Brilliant in all-round action, having a maximum impact on a match, sober in words and gentlemanly in interaction. He was pulled down from the heights of vice-captaincy & captaincy, and rendered out of the national team itself.

    It’s all a game of money & mafia, the latter lobbying for the former. Going merely for money, and using it for self-aggrandizing gangster behavior, is the nemesis of nobility & skillfulness in any field.

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  4. Sandesh K says:
    3 years ago

    Article is written by someone who doesn’t have a full understanding of the situation. I agree, Hardik comes of as arrogant sometimes, maybe he is, but his participation in Ranaji or Chetan Sharma’s comments about him being fully fit have nothing to do with this. Hardik’s first goal would be about being fit for T20 WC this year, and by fit I mean able to bowl 4 overs and bat for sufficient overs. If he plays Ranji, he will have to play as a batsman, because he is still working on his bowling after recovering from injury. Otherwise he would be unnecessarily occupying someone else’s spot in the team. Same goes for Chetan Sharma’s comments, being fully fit, means he should be able to bowl for 5-6 over spells and bat for considerable time to be able to get selected in Teat squad. So please, do your homework first, before accusing someone of something out of pure bias. Or just keep quit, if you don’t understand cricket.

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  5. Ravi Sutharsan says:
    3 years ago

    International cricket is extremely overrated and overhyped. It is good that importance of international cricket is waning heavily right now and soon we will see the day when international cricket is just restricted to World Cups, multi nation series and marquee test series, while all other cricket is played between the various franchise leagues around the world. Bilaterals are a massive waste of time and are just money making exercises between the respective boards. Nobody gives a hoot about them these days! Ask Hardik how important it is to him about playing for India in a World Cup, and I am 2000% sure he’ll say “its his dream”. It doesn’t matter to him if he’s not selected for a meaningless bilateral series.

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  6. Annu says:
    3 years ago

    What’s the problem with such people who come and post their views about a player’s who has given his blood and sweat to come to this level.
    Franchise are not director or producers who consider the look of players and pick in their teams. They are doing business here to earn money and not fool’s to select personality, but they value that player for match winning capability and bet for that money.
    So talk about why he is valuable for 15 cr. Rather discussing his personality and personal life.
    Leave him alone write something else for your break and butter.
    Don’t ruin someone’s career.

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