{"id":589269,"date":"2021-12-11T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=589269"},"modified":"2021-12-11T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:52:35","slug":"shoaib-akhtar-reveals-why-he-was-surprised-to-see-hardik-pandya-at-the-2018-asia-cup-and-what-advice-he-gave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/589269\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoaib Akhtar reveals why he was surprised to see Hardik Pandya at the 2018 Asia Cup and what advice he gave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar recalled his meeting with India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya ahead of India’s match against Pakistan in the 2018 Asia Cup.\u00a0He revealed that he was shocked to see Padya’s slim figure and had warned him about the injury.\u00a0After a while he was taken off the field due to injury.\u00a0Hardik suffered an injury while bowling in the 18th over in the Asia Cup 2018 group match against Pakistan.\u00a0He was seen holding his back during the follow-through and then lay down on the ground.\u00a0He was then immediately taken off the field by a stretcher.\u00a0The reason for this was attributed by the BCCI to a serious injury in his lower back.<\/p>\n

Talking on Aakash Chopra’s YouTube channel, Akhtar said, “I told Bumrah in Dubai, even Hardik Pandya.\u00a0The muscles in the back of my shoulders are still so strong.\u00a0But he (Hardik) was looking so thin.\u00a0I was surprised.\u00a0,\u00a0I had warned him that you would get injured, but he told me he was playing a lot of cricket.\u00a0Exactly an hour and a half later he was injured.\u00a0Hardik has been battling this injury for the last few years.\u00a0Due to a back problem, he played as a batsman against Pakistan in the opening match of IPL 2021 and T-World Cup 2021.<\/p>\n

Hardik has been out of Team India’s team in all three formats of cricket due to fitness.\u00a0Earlier he was not selected in the T20 series against New Zealand and now he has not been selected in the tour of South Africa.\u00a0India has to play a series of three Tests and three ODIs in this tour starting from 26 September.\u00a0Akhtar then advised the three senior Indian fast bowlers to maintain fitness and said that they need to focus on building muscles.\u00a0He gave this advice to Bhuvneshwar, Shami and Bumrah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar recalled his meeting with India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya ahead of India’s match against Pakistan in the 2018 Asia Cup.\u00a0He revealed that he was shocked to see Padya’s slim figure and had warned him about the injury.\u00a0After a while he was taken off the field due to injury.\u00a0Hardik suffered an injury while bowling in the 18th over in the Asia Cup 2018 group match against Pakistan.\u00a0He was seen holding his back during the follow-through and then lay down on the ground.\u00a0He was then immediately taken…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":589270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}