Hardik broke this record as soon as he became captain

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Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya Suresh Raina IND vs AUS 1st ODI Match: Hardik Pandya is the new captain of Team India in ODI. Hardik Pandya captains for the first time against Australia in today’s ODI match. Although he has become captain in only one match and in the second as soon as Rohit Sharma returns, Hardik Pandya will return as vice-captain. When today’s match started, Hardik Pandya won the first battle at one, when he managed to win the toss. After this, when the team took the field, he did another feat as captain. The job that even MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma could not do, that job was done by Hardik Pandya in his first match as captain. Prior to this, the last time this work was done by Suresh Raina in the year 2014. Now, almost nine years later, history has done the job of repeating itself.

Hardik Pandya and Virat Kohli

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Hardik Pandya and Virat Kohli

Hardik Pandya took his first wicket in his first match as captain

In fact, Hardik Pandya took over the captaincy today and handed over the reins of bowling to Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami. Mohammad Siraj took the first wicket early. When he floored Travis Head for a total of five runs. But after this, Mitchell Marsh and Steve Smith tried to strengthen the team and formed a partnership. But only then Hardik Pandya himself took command of the bowling. Steve Smith, who was seen with a good touch, was hunted down by Hardik Pandya. As Steve Smith was playing 22 off 30 balls a ball took the outside edge of his bat and went behind the wicket and KL Rahul made a good leap and made the catch. That is, Hardik Pandya made Steve Smith, the captain of the opposing team, introduce himself as captain. But the record is something else. In fact, after some nine years, a wicket was taken by a captain of the India team while bowling in ODIs. Before this, Suresh Raina had last done this job. Although Suresh Raina has captained Team India in 12 matches and has taken three wickets during this term. Suresh Raina last captained as captain in the match played against Bangladesh in the year 2014 and he took a wicket for 24 runs in five overs in the same match. In that match, he caught Shakib Al Hasan on his own ball and sent him to the arena, even though Shakib Al Hasan was not the captain at the time.

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Suresh Raina

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Suresh Raina

After Suresh Raina, now Hardik Pandya took the wicket as captain in ODIs

After Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni continued as the captain of the India team. After this Virat Kohli became the captain and after that Rohit Sharma but no one did the job of taking wickets as captain. All of them have bowled but did not get wickets or bowled as captain. But now, nine years later, history has repeated itself. However, Hardik Pandya has now become the captain of only one match. But it remains to be seen if the BCCI and Team India selectors see him as permanent captain in the near future or not. His decision will depend a lot on the result of today’s game, what kind of decisions he makes as captain.

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