{"id":19823,"date":"2022-05-06T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=219654"},"modified":"2022-05-06T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:50:21","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-hardik-pandya-desires-kieron-pollard-to-play-for-gujarat-titans-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-hardik-pandya-desires-kieron-pollard-to-play-for-gujarat-titans-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022: Hardik Pandya desires Kieron Pollard to play for Gujarat Titans next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Pandya was known for his match-winning knocks alongside Caribbean great Kieron Pollard during his stint at MI. Before Pandya left the squad to become GT\u2019s captain, both players were known to be good buddies in the MI locker room. Meanwhile, Pandya expressed his wish for Pollard to join his team in a recent video published by GT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish Polly (Pollard) to have the best day for him, but we win. I kind of messaged him few days as well that hope you\u2019re okay and hope you\u2019re doing well. I said we kind of miss you here. In a joking way, I said \u2018You never know, you might come to us next year!\u2019 It\u2019s my wish but I know it\u2019s never going to happen,\u201d said Hardik in a video posted by Gujarat Titans.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya won the IPL title four times with MI and in the video, he also recalled one of the best innings he played for the Mumbai-based team. \u201cMy cap in 2015, it was very important for me. Those two man of the matches were important as the last seven games, for us it was a knockout. I kind of got my first glimpse of success and fame in that game where I scored some three sixes. I think we needed two overs, 32 or something, and we won with three-four balls to spare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard, on the other hand, has been off-color this season. With his highest score of just 25, the Windies power-hitter has only tallied 129 runs from ten matches, averaging 14.33 and a strike rate of 109.32. The big man has also failed to make an impact in the wickets department, with only three scalps to his record. He\u2019ll be hoping to make apologies in the remaining games as MI looks to complete the season on a high note with a few more victories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A tale of two colours \u2013 blue and golden \u2013 in the words of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PapaPandya?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PapaPandya<\/a> \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfd Captain relives his MI memories before the clash of the day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GTvMI?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GTvMI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hardikpandya7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hardikpandya7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeasonOfFirsts?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeasonOfFirsts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AavaDe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AavaDe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ZNe7Gh69v\">pic.twitter.com\/4ZNe7Gh69v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gujarat_titans\/status\/1522410824350019586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Hardik Pandya left the squad to become GT\u2019s captain, both Pandya and Pollard were known to be good buddies in the MI locker room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[143,307,286],"class_list":["post-19823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-kieron-pollard","tag-mumbai-indians"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}