Hardik Pandya is away from cricket right now. But despite this, his name is famous from Delhi Premier League to Maharaja T20 Trophy. If there is Hardik Sharma in DPL, then there is Hardik Raj in Maharaja T20 Trophy. The Hardik we are talking about here is from Maharaja T20 Trophy and he does both batting and bowling like Hardik Pandya of Team India. Even after hitting 8 sixes in Maharaja T20 Trophy, Hardik has not been able to establish that dominance, which he and his team i.e. Shivamogga Lions need the most. In the second consecutive match, Hardik's bowling has been one of the major reasons for the team's crushing defeat.

In the Maharaja T20 Trophy, Shivamoga Lions faced the challenge of Gulbarga Mystics on the evening of 21 August. Batting first in this match, Shivamoga Lions could not even play 20 overs. The team was all out in 18.1 overs. The entire team together scored only 126 runs, in which Hardik Raj scored only 7 runs with one six. With one six hit in his 7-run innings, the total number of sixes hit by him in the Maharaja T20 Trophy 2024 has reached 8.

Hardik, who hit 8 sixes, became a villain!

In the 5 matches played so far in the current season of Maharaja T20 Trophy, Hardik has scored 111 runs with 8 sixes. But, the team has not won any match. In the last 2 matches, Hardik Raj's bowling has been the main reason for the team's defeat. Against Hubli Tigers, he gave away 23 runs in a single over. Whereas against Gulbarga Mystics, he could not even bowl the full over, he ended the match by bowling an over of just 4 balls. He gave away 11 runs in these 4 balls.

Gulbarg Mystics defeated Hardik's team

When Gulbarga came out to chase the target of 127 runs given by Shivamogga Lions, they broke the thread of poor bowling and chased it in just 11.4 overs. Opener Lavnith Sisodia from Gulbarga Mystics scored 62 runs with the help of 5 sixes in 35 balls. In this task, he also got full support from KV Avanish. Both of them together finished the match by scoring 11 runs in 4 balls of Hardik. The only wicket of Gulbarga fell in the form of captain Devdutt Padikkal, who scored 27 runs.

Now this news has increased the concern

The worrying thing for Hardik's team Shivamogga Lions is that it is in danger of being out of the semi-final race. This is because the team has not opened its account of victory yet. The team has played 5 matches so far and has faced defeat in all of them.