{"id":3889,"date":"2022-06-15T21:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=228600"},"modified":"2022-06-15T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:21:21","slug":"so-proud-hardik-pandyas-appointment-as-indian-captain-for-ireland-tour-cheer-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/so-proud-hardik-pandyas-appointment-as-indian-captain-for-ireland-tour-cheer-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSo proud,\u201d Hardik Pandya\u2019s appointment as Indian captain for Ireland tour cheer fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=BCCI+\">Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)<\/a> has named a 17-members\u00a0Indian team for the upcoming bilateral Twenty20 International series against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>For the very first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya+\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> will captain Team India. It is indeed worth noting that Hardik had an outstanding leadership performance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL+2022\">Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022<\/a>, with his debut team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Gujarat+Titans+\">Gujarat Titans (GT)<\/a> winning the tournament for the first time. Pandya was a force to be reckoned with including both bat and ball, and he led his team at the front. In the present T20I series against South Africa, he is also in excellent form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Bhuvaneshwar+Kumar+\">Bhuvneshwar Kumar<\/a> has been selected the series\u2019 vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sanju+Samson+\">Sanju Samson<\/a>, whose squandering has been well recorded over the years, has been given another chance at salvation after leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajasthan+Royals\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> to the IPL final.<\/p>\n<p>The lone newcomer in the lineup is Maharashtra right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rahul+Tripathi\">Rahul Tripathi<\/a>, who was recognised for his outstanding batting performance for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sunrisers+hyderabad\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/a> in this season\u2019s IPL, in which he hit over 400 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, fans are celebrating Hardik on his first captaincy of the Indian squad on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hardik Pandya is the Captain of Team India\ud83d\udc99 for Ireland tour.<\/p>\n<p>So so proud\ud83e\udd7a\u2764\ufe0f.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HardikPandya?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HardikPandya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Captain?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Captain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q6y9DwRwOp\">pic.twitter.com\/Q6y9DwRwOp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kovai Jagadesh (@kovai_jagadesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kovai_jagadesh\/status\/1537095722452934656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three months ago, Hardik Pandya hadn't captained *any* team at senior level. Now, he's an IPL winning captain who will soon be an India captain.<\/p>\n<p>ps: Stoked by Rahul Tripathi's inclusion in India's side too. Deserves it after how he did in IPL 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ltfKqFCpcm\">https:\/\/t.co\/ltfKqFCpcm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saurabh Somani (@saurabh_42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saurabh_42\/status\/1537086049859477504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/sirmanav14\/status\/1537092159522115586?s=21&t=j5jzBl0Ks6HI7NTLwH7_UA<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are about to enter Captain Hardik pandya captaincy era \ud83c\udfc6. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBeDcaJJfT\">https:\/\/t.co\/CBeDcaJJfT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chiku (@Kohliisgoat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kohliisgoat\/status\/1537071455590301696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first T20I match will take place on June 26 at The Village, Malahide in Dublin, followed by the second on June 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3269,143,3339,2860,629],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bhuvaneshwar-kumar","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-ind-v-ire","tag-rahul-tripathi","tag-sanju-samson"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","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=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}