Touted as team India’s next T20 format captain, flamboyant allrounder Hardik Pandya has quickly emerged as one of the best fast bowling allrounders in modern day White ball Cricket. He replaced wicket-keeper batter KL Rahul as the national team’s vice-captain as well having impressed one and all with his leadership ability.
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Most recently, he lost his only match as T20I captain against Sri Lanka in Pune, after remaining undefeated in the six matches he had led the Indian team so far.
The 29-year-old had made his T20I captaincy debut during a two-match away T20I series against Ireland the previous year, where the team had emerged victorious 2-0. During the series, Pandya had achieved a new record by becoming the first Indian men’s team captain to pick up a wicket in T20Is.
As far as his personal life is concerned, Pandya likes leading a lavish lifestyle and he doesn’t shy away from exhibiting the same across his social media handles.
He got married to the Indian-based Serbian dancer Natasa Stankovic in the year 2020, and the couple are even parents to a son named ‘Agastya’.
Natasa Stankovic birthplace
Natasa Stankovic Pandya is a dancer, model, and an actor based in Mumbai. She moved to India in the year 2012 to pursue a career in the field of acting.
She was born on 4 March 1992 in Požarevac, Republic of Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, and also has a brother named Nenad Stankovic.
Is Hardik Pandya’s wife a Bollywood actor?
Natasa made her Bollywood debut in Prakash Jha’s political drama movie Satyagraha in the year 2013, where she made a special appearance in the song Aiyo Ji.
She has worked in a host of other Bollywood movies since then, but only as a special appearance or in cameo roles in some hits like Fukrey Returns, Zero, Action Jackson etc.
Most recently in the year 2020, she worked in a web crime series – ‘Flesh’ as an NIA agent, alongside Swara Bhaskar as the lead actor.
