Indian Team all-rounder, Hardik Pandya is gearing up for the approaching 15th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), who will captain a new team the Gujarat Titans. It will be very exciting to witness the gala tournament with new teams this season and interestingly with new squads and their respective captains. Here is about Gujarat Titans Captain Hardik Begins Preparations For IPL 2022.
Pandya is undergoing preparation underneath the guidance of the team’s bowling coach, Ashish Nehra, with Darshan Nalkande, Abhinav Manohar, and Varun Aaron also actively participating. Hardik seems to have been mainly idle on the international level, being last represented India at the 2021 T20 World Cup, where the squad was knocked in the group stage after losing to Pakistan & New Zealand.
BCCI implemented a new strategy to split the 10 teams into GROUP A&B
Despite that, Pandya has been made himself unavailable for national selection in order to work on his healing from a reoccurring back injury that has prevented him from bowling and prompted him to play purely as a batsman for any side including his former IPL outfit Mumbai Indians and India.
“Hardik Pandya, Abhinav Manohar, Darshan Nalkande, Varun Aaron are currently training at the IPCL ground in Baroda. The camp kickstarted on February 25 and it will conclude on March 2,” a source said.
In the meantime, the Titans had a good showing in the IPL 2022 mega auction, in which they acquired Jason Roy, Rahul Tewatia, Matthew Wade, Mohammed Shami, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Lockie Ferguson, Wriddhiman Saha, among several others, who could take part their retained players Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan, and Shubman Gill.
Followed by the formation of the Titans and the Lucknow Super Giants, the forthcoming episode of the IPL will feature 10 teams and begin on March 26. This will be the 1st time the league has had more than 8 franchises since 2011.
In a certain way, the BCCI has devised a new system in which the competing teams are divided into two groups of five players each. In Group A Mumbai Indians, Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders, and Lucknow Super Giants, while In Group B, Gujarat Titans are joined by Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Punjab Kings.
Gujarat Titans (GT) Full Squad: Hardik Pandya (c), Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Jason Roy, Lockie Ferguson, Abhinav Sadarangani, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Dominic Drakes, Jayant Yadav, Vijay Shankar, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Pradeep Sangwan, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Gurkeerat Singh, Varun Aaron, B Sai Sudarshan.
