Hardik Pandya gives apt response to Michael Vaughan’s ‘India biggest underperformers’ comment

India’s star all-rounder Hardik Pandya is presently in New Zealand, the place the Men in Blue will play a six-match (3 ODIs, 3T20Is) white-ball collection, scheduled to start on Friday, November 18, in Wellington.

Hardik will probably be main the Indian aspect within the T20I collection, which begins November 25 in Auckland. Ahead of India’s first project after the recently-concluded T20I World Cup, Hardik was requested about former England skipper Michael Vaughan‘s statement on Team India following their semi-final defeat against the Jos Buttled-led side.

Notably, Vaughan had criticised India and termed them as the ‘most underperforming’ white-ball crew in historical past. In his column for The Telegraph, Vaughan wrote: “India are the most underperforming white-ball team in history. I am just staggered by how they play T20 cricket for the talent they have. They have the players but just do not have the right process in place. They have to go for it. Why do they give the opposition bowlers the first five overs to bed in?”

When requested about Vaughan’s feedback, Hardik stated they don’t want to show to anybody but additionally talked about that there’s particular room for enchancment and they’ll do the whole lot doable to rectify.

“Obviously, when you don’t do well, people will have their opinion, which we respect. I understand people have different points of view. Being at the international level, I don’t think we need to prove anything to anyone. It’s a sport, you keep trying to get better and eventually when the result is supposed to happen, it will happen. There are things we need to work on, going forward, we will rectify and work on them,” stated Hardik, as quoted by HT.

India have been utterly outplayed by England within the semis because the three lions gained the competition by 10 wickets, courtesy of Buttler and Alex Hales‘ dominating batting exhibition. Hardik stated that whereas the crew is upset with their semi-final end, they’ve to take care of it and deal with the following version of the event.

“There is a disappointment in the T20 World Cup, but we are professionals. We need to cope with it the way we cope with our success and move forward, look to get better and rectify the mistakes we made,” added Hardik.