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Hardik Pandya: Indian All-Rounder tweets his 16-year-old picture celebrating India’s 2011 Cricket World Cup win.

Gurpreet Singh
|PublishedMay 24, 2019

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND – FEBRUARY 03: Hardik Pandya of India in action during game five in the One Day International series between New Zealand and India at Westpac Stadium on February 03, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Hardik Pandya: Indian All-Rounder tweets his 16-year-old picture celebrating India’s 2011 Cricket World Cup win; compares it with the present

Flamboyant Indian All-Rounder and a vital cog of the Indian wheel this World Cup, Hardik Pandya has come up with a ‘memory down lane’ moment on social media.

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The 25-year-old cricketer after having reached the World Cup venue along with the entire team on Thursday, posted a wonderful picture on his social media handles, depicting the beautiful journey he has had thus far since his early years as a cricketer.

The all-rounder from Baroda is certainly ‘living his dream’, of playing for the Indian National side as that is what perhaps, Pandya wanted to say out loud to the entire world- to go for your dreams and live it.

What did Pandya tweet?

Hardik Pandya has posted a couple of pictures on his Twitter handle and has compared the two by placing them one above the other.

The upper picture depicts a 16-year-old Hardik celebrating India’s 2011 Cricket World Cup win, along with his group of friends. Akin his 6 other friends in the picture, he is visibly very pumped up after the famous India victory by 6 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Below the same picture, we can see the 25-year-old Pandya, now with the Indian Cricket team, who has arrived at the World Cup venue to partake in the 2019 World Cup. He is seen taking a selfie along with the veteran wicket-keeper batsman MS Dhoni, opener Shikhar Dhawan, and pacer Jasprit Bumrah who complete the perfect click.

The caption above the picture read- “From cheering and celebrating India’s World Cup triumph in 2011 to representing #TeamIndia in World Cup 2019, it has been a dream come#cwc19”.

About the author

Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.