{"id":22043,"date":"2025-03-29T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=582508"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:52:51","slug":"gt-vs-mi-did-hardik-pandya-asked-gt-coach-ashish-nehra-to-reveal-team-strategy-funny-moment-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/gt-vs-mi-did-hardik-pandya-asked-gt-coach-ashish-nehra-to-reveal-team-strategy-funny-moment-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"GT vs MI: Did Hardik Pandya asked GT coach Ashish Nehra to reveal team strategy? Funny moment goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"469\">A light-hearted exchange between <strong data-start=\"227\" data-end=\"244\">Hardik Pandya<\/strong> and his former coach <strong data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"282\">Ashish Nehra<\/strong> caught the attention of fans during the strategic time-out in <strong data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"368\">Match 9 of IPL 2025<\/strong> between <strong data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"400\">Gujarat Titans (GT)<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"428\">Mumbai Indians (MI)<\/strong> at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"888\">With GT off to a flying start\u2014<strong data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"526\">66\/0 in the powerplay<\/strong>, their best of the season\u2014Pandya looked under pressure as Gujarat\u2019s top order settled in. Cameras captured Nehra, now GT\u2019s head coach, casually walking up to Pandya during the break and appearing to give him advice. The brief banter-like moment quickly sparked conversation on social media, given their history of working together at GT when Hardik was captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"1229\">Interestingly, this match marked <strong data-start=\"923\" data-end=\"985\">the first wicketless powerplay of IPL 2025\u2019s first innings<\/strong>\u2014a major milestone in itself. <strong data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1031\">Shubman Gill<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1053\">Sai Sudharsan<\/strong> set the tone early on before <strong data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1125\">Gill was dismissed for 38 off 27 balls<\/strong>, caught by <strong data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1151\">Naman Dhir<\/strong> off Pandya\u2019s bowling in the 9th over, bringing MI a much-needed breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1407\">As per the latest update (9.2 overs), Gujarat are <strong data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1289\">80\/1<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1313\">Sai Sudharsan<\/strong> unbeaten on <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1345\">37 off 24 balls<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1365\">Jos Buttler<\/strong> new at the crease with <strong data-start=\"1389\" data-end=\"1406\">2 off 5 balls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1616\">Mumbai had earlier won the toss and opted to field first, with Pandya returning to the XI after a one-match ban. MI left out young spinner Vignesh Puthur, despite his strong performance in the previous game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1838\">With the home crowd roaring and the match heating up, Pandya will be hoping that the wicket of his former teammate Gill sparks a turnaround\u2014and perhaps that Nehra\u2019s mid-match \u2018banter\u2019 gives him a little extra motivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A light-hearted exchange between Hardik Pandya and his former coach Ashish Nehra caught the attention of fans during the strategic\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[495,143,230],"class_list":["post-22043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ashish-nehra","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-shubman-gill"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}