MUMBAI: In a piece of good news for the Mumbai Indians, with IPL 2024 set to start on March 22 - less than a couple of months away - their new captain Hardik Pandya, who has completely recovered from his ankle injury, has started bowling at full tilt in the nets.
The Mumbai Indians recently appointed Pandya as their captain after trading him in from Gujarat Titans for Rs 15 crore in the trading window.
Hardik suffered the ankle injury during India's 2023 ODI World Cup league match against Bangladesh in Pune in November and was then ruled out of the rest of the World Cup and the subsequent tour of South Africa.
In a video he posted on Instagram, Pandya can be seen bowling at full tilt, in what appears to be in the nets back home in Baroda.
"I'm feeling very good after coming back here. I treat (this ground) as a temple, because the amount of things I've learnt on this ground, it's like a temple for me. What it has taught me is priceless. My journey started literally 17 years back on this very ground. I will make sure everything possible today, and every day," he says in the video.