{"id":20085,"date":"2022-06-04T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=226814"},"modified":"2022-06-04T21:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:11:34","slug":"ipl-2022-he-provided-me-with-a-stage-to-prove-myself-wriddhiman-saha-praises-hardik-pandya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-he-provided-me-with-a-stage-to-prove-myself-wriddhiman-saha-praises-hardik-pandya\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: \u201cHe provided me with a stage to prove myself,\u2019 Wriddhiman Saha praises Hardik Pandya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Wriddhiman+Saha\">File Wriddhiman Saha<\/a>, who had gone unsold in the first round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=TATA+IPL+2022\">TATA IPL 2022<\/a> auctions, returned with a surprising performance for Gujarat Titans. It wasn\u2019t just the debuting side that surprised the fans but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya\">Hardik Pandya<\/a>\u2018s leadership too rose the eyebrows. The cricketing fans across the globe are seeing a strong contender for leadership for the Indian team. Wriddhiman Saha was one of the surprising results that jutted out of Hardik\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Wriddhiman Saha in his recent statement to Bengali Daily Anandabazar Patrika, \u201cHardik showed faith in all those players who were released by the different franchises, whom nobody believed in. I was unsold (on the first day of the IPL 2022 mega auction). I was not getting chances in the beginning. Then he came and told me that I need to take the responsibility of an opener. I got my confidence back. He provided me with a stage to prove myself. Can never forget his contribution. I tried my best to repay his faith. In fact, everybody in the team fulfilled their duties, that\u2019s what you need to become a champion side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHardik knows how to manage a side. A captain\u2019s job is to stay connected with everyone, and understand their game, Hardik had no dearth of that. He has gone through a sea change. He used to be restless earlier but has changed completely now. He never lost his cool on the field, always showed faith in everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saha was happy with the confidence shown in him by GT. \u201cA captain will always be happy when the openers perform. The biggest thing was, that he believed in me. Hardik used to say if we don\u2019t get off to good starts in multiple matches then it will put the dugout under a lot of pressure. So, my job was to get the team off to a good start,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Pandya has been on the front foot every time he has been challenged. He responded with an IPL trophy when his role in the Indian team was in doubt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":40704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[143,1348],"class_list":["post-20085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-wriddhiman-saha"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}