“This Hardik Pandya Is A Mood”: India Star’s Wild Celebration Stuns Internet. Watch

Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya landed a well timed blow for India of their second World Cup 2023 match towards Afghanistan in Delhi on Wednesday. Pandya, who turned 30 on Wednesday, dismissed Afghanistan batter Azmatullah Omarzai within the thirty fifth over, giving the latter a fiery ship off. Omarzai stitiched a 121-run stand with captain Hashmatullah Shahidi earlier than Pandya gave India a much-needed reprieve. The Indian vice-captain could not management his feelings as he celebrated with a wild outburst whereas looking at Omarzai.

Man Of Crisis – Birthday Boy Hardik Pandya On Fire #INDvAFG | #CWC23 | pic.twitter.com/aFPLKZMR2l

— (@balltamperrerrr) October 11, 2023

Hardik’s wild gesture took web by storm.

Here are the response:

This Hardik Pandya is a moooood pic.twitter.com/FfnUjTIbg1

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) October 11, 2023

The celebration from Hardik Pandya after the wicket. pic.twitter.com/YIhuPC5TYP

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 11, 2023

Love this celebration of Hardik Pandya pic.twitter.com/uuHRCMGJaA

— Ishu (@PocketDynamoo) October 11, 2023

This was Hardik’s second wicket of the match, having dismissed Rahmanullah Gurbaz earlier.

Earlier, Afghanistan elected to bat first at New Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium which witnessed a World Cup report 754 runs scored within the earlier match when South Africa posted 428 and defeated Sri Lanka.

They misplaced their high three batsmen, Ibrahim Zadran (22), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (21) after which Rahmat Shah (16) to slide to 63-3.

Shahidi, a left-hand batsman, and Omarzai then rebuilt the innings in a century stand to thwart the Indian assault and pull the full to 173-3 in 33 overs.

Omarzai reached his second ODI fifty and shortly Shahidi smashed Hardik Pandya for 4 to convey up his half-century.

The Afghans misplaced their opening match to Bangladesh whereas event favourites India started with a victory over five-time winners Australia.

India XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

Afghanistan XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi.