{"id":20076,"date":"2022-05-30T01:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=225768"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T03:45:02","slug":"ipl-2022-final-hardik-pandya-becomes-the-only-third-captain-to-receive-man-of-the-match-in-the-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-final-hardik-pandya-becomes-the-only-third-captain-to-receive-man-of-the-match-in-the-league\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022 Final: Hardik Pandya becomes the only third captain to receive \u2018Man of the Match\u2019 in the league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya+\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Gujarat+Titans+\">Gujarat Titans<\/a> joins Anil Kumble (2009) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rohit+Sharma+\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> (2015) as the third captain to win a man of the match title in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik Pandya took the lead early in the IPL 2022 final against Rajasthan Royals, delivering a magnificent spell to put Gujarat Titans in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Gujarat Titans crushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajasthan+Royals\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> by 7 wickets to win their inaugural title in front of a full stadium at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, with captain Hardik Pandya putting on an all-round performance.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya bowled 30 overs in the IPL 2022, appearing in 10 games and missing the others due to a slight groin injury and the fact that his primary five bowlers, along with Rahul Tewatia, had done the job.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya, on the other hand, took it upon himself to give a magnificent performance with the ball in the final against the Rajasthan Royals. Pandya added three to his tally \u2013 and three important ones: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sanju+Samson+\">Sanju Samson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Jos+Buttler+\">Jos Buttler<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Shimron+hetmyer\">Shimron Hetmyer<\/a> \u2013 allowing only 17 runs in his quota of four overs.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik Pandya did not bowl a single ball in the previous two seasons due to a back problem and other concerns that stopped him from bowling even a few overs.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after taking a month off between the T20 World Cup in November and the start of the IPL 2022 in March, a re-energized Pandya, the captain of the new Gujarat Titans franchise, has produced a performance to remember, and a shut-down showcase to anyone doubting his highly elevated abilities with the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Titans, in their inaugural IPL season, won the league, won the first qualifier, and then dominated Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2022 final in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[392,3327,3075,143],"class_list":["post-20076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-anil-kumble","tag-gtvrr","tag-gujarat-titans","tag-hardik-pandya"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076","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=20076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}