IPL 2019: 5 talking points this season

#3 The Resurgence of Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya was the MVP for MI in IPL 2019

IPL 2019 will always be remembered for two all-rounders - Andre Russell and Hardik Pandya. With all the controversies and injuries surrounding the younger Pandya in the last couple of months, his performance was very important for both Team India and himself as a player and an individual.

What everyone witnessed in IPL 2019 was a different Hardik altogether. He was hitting big sixes and hitting them cleanly, bowling at the death and taking wickets in the middle overs as well. There was a sense of a more matured Hardik Pandya, both as a person and a cricketer.

There was an improvement in his bowling and also in his batting. He scored more than 380 runs at a strike-rate of 193, and also picked up 14 wickets.

This resurgence in Hardik Pandya after everything that happened to him in the past few months became one of the talking points in IPL 2019.