India and Mumbai Indians all-rounder Hardik Pandya is known for his aggressive batting in the international circuit. The right-handed batsman has played some brilliant innings for both India as well as his IPL side Mumbai Indians earlier.
In a video released by the MI franchise, Hardik talks about the number of bats he has, how he chooses them and superstitions.
“I think 15 bats,” he says while counting them. “I bat with almost a new bat in every innings. I like checking the bats in the game. There are lots of people who are picky about it but it doesn’t make any difference to me. A bat is a bat,” Pandya further said.
Talking about superstitions, the right-hander said that he is not someone who is really superstitious. “I like to be less superstitious than anyone so yeah I don’t have any ‘totka’ (superstition). I don’t believe in them,” the batsman added.
Pandya has been an integral part of the MI as well as the Indian setup for quite some time now. He has played 83 IPL matches for MI scoring 1384 runs at a strike-rate of over 157.
Apart from this, Pandya has been capped 48 times in T20Is for India where he has struck 474 runs at a strike-rate of 147.7. The right-handed batsman has also played 60 ODIs and 11 Tests for the Indian team.
He has notched up over 1200 runs in the ODIs while has scored 532 runs in the longer format respectively.
The Mumbai Indians are presently placed at the number three spot in the points table after winning two of the three matches that they have played. The Rohit Sharma-led team will now take on Delhi Capitals in Chennai on Tuesday.