Indian Premier League 2023: Gujarat Titans, who joined this T20 league as a new franchise in the last season of IPL, have seen excellent performance in both the seasons so far. Gujarat Titans impressed everyone in their very first season and won the title under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. The credit for this was also given to the head coach of the team, Ashish Nehra. Behind the success of Gujarat, the discussion of the pair of Hardik and Ashish Nehra is seen.
This season has also seen very good performance from the team of Gujarat Titans. At the same time, team captain Hardik Pandya has now revealed in a video released by the franchise why he went against the advice of head coach Ashish Nehra in a match. Ashish Nehra has often been seen giving advice to Hardik on boundaries while fielding during IPL matches.
Hardik Pandya said in his statement that the only time when I went against the advice of Ashish Nehra, was the final match of the last IPL season. In the last season, we often got Rashid Khan’s last 2 overs done after the 12th over. But when I saw in the final match that we can put more pressure on Rajasthan, then I finished all their overs till the 12th over of the innings.
Pandya further said that in the final match, when Ashish Nehra advised me to bowl to Sai Kishore, I called him, but at the same time I saw the scorecard and then I stopped him. After 11 overs, only 2 wickets had fallen and Butler was 35 while Padikal was playing 2 runs in 9 balls. I got the feeling that he would definitely target this over and if he could have done that, we would have got a target of around 170 which would have been pretty high for the final.
Rashid sent the pavilion to Padikal as soon as he arrived
Hardik further said that I asked Sai to stop and called Rashid for bowling. Where he gave very few runs in that over, he also got the wicket of Padikal. Due to this, Butler also could not get a chance to play his natural game and that is why he did not appear as effective. The only incident I remember was when I went during a match against Ashish Nehra’s advice.