IPL 2022: Hardik Pandya 2.0 and the Gujarat Titans success story
Hardik Pandya read George Bernard Shaw during his long injury layoff. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself," is a famous Bernard Shaw quote. And from 2018 to now, Hardik seems to have been on a mission to recreate himself. Rolling back the years to 2018 - Hardik was stretchered off the field. It was in an Asia Cup game against Pakistan when he pulled a muscle in his back while bowling and had to be carried off the field. Hardik has moved in and out of the physiotherapy room since that day until almost re-creating himself for his debut as skipper of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022. Hardik the all-rounder, who dreamt of being spoken of in the same breath as Kapil Dev someday, has recreated himself into Hardik the comeback man. He is bowling again, he is his team's leading run-getter so far in IPL 2022 (413 runs in 13 innings) and has also earned the tag of 'talismanic' skipper for debutant team, the Gujarat Titans, who became the first team to qualify for the playoffs this season.
