Hardik Pandya’s 2 Gigantic Sixes: One Hits the Press Box, Another Goes on the Roof – WATCH – News18

Hardik Pandya continued his sublime form with the bat in India’s Super-8 opener against Afghanistan on Thursday in Barbados. The Indian vice-captain scored a valiant 24-ball 32 and featured in a crucial 60-run partnership with Suryakumar Yadav for the fifth wicket. Hardik smashed 3 boundaries and 2 sixes during his stay in the middle. One of his gigantic sixes went on to hit the glass shield of the media box at the Kensington Oval while the other one landed on the top of the roof of the stadium.

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Pandya hit his first maximum in the 16^th over, sending Noor Ahmed’s fuller delivery down the ground. The ball went like a tracer bullet and hit the glass window of the press box. His next six came in the 18^th over as he hammered Naveen-ul-Haq’s slower leg-cutter against the wind. The ball covered a distance of 98 meters before landing on the roof.

Meanwhile, Suryakumar Yadav smashed a fine half-century to lead India to a challenging 181-8 in 20 overs. The 33-year-old cracked his 19th fifty in the format while Afghanistan captain and leg-spinner Rashid Khan and fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi claimed three wickets each.

Suryakumar made 53 from 28 balls with five fours and three sixes and shared a 60-run fifth-wicket partnership with Hardik Pandya.

Farooqi struck first for Afghanistan by having India skipper Rohit Sharma caught by Rashid for just eight. It was the 23-year-old Farooqi’s 50th career T20 international wicket. Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant put on 43 for the second wicket with Pant hitting three successive boundaries off Mohammad Nabi. That left India on 54-2 before Rashid struck again in his next over, claiming the prestige scalp of Kohli who was caught by Nabi at long-off for 24 off 24 balls.

Kohli had at least made it to double figures after a miserable run of just five runs in his first three matches at the tournament. At the halfway point India were 79-3. Rashid was hit for a boundary and a six in the 11th over by Suryakumar Kumar.

But the leg-spinner was soon celebrating his third wicket when he had Shivam Dube trapped lbw for 10. Rashid finished with impressive figures of 3-26.

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