Stoic Hardik Pandya sports a smile as life goes on for India all-rounder

Team India allrounder Hardik Pandya remained tightlipped on things that made him the talk of the town except for fitness his impassive countenance masking his feelings as he tackled myriad challenges both on and off the field For a player who has been a hot topic of discussion with all that has transpired of late Pandya sported a pleasant smile and spoke at length on fitness while launching his sports apparel brandTwo days ago Hardik Pandya and Natasa Stankovic officially parted their ways after four years of marriage Also Hardik Pandya who was the obvious choice of Indias next T20I captain failed to beat Suryakumar Yadav in the contention list Suryakumar Yadav is the new captain of Team India in the upcoming series against Sri LankaWhen our body does not get tired our mind gets tired So so many times in my life the difference between when I was able to push my limits was always the fact that when my mind gets tired I will tell my body to just push because you will always have extra effort in your body Pandya said The difference between if you do 20 and if I do 20 we are on the same level But if I push to 25 and if I challenge my mindset next time Im going to do 25 next time Im going to do 30 he addedFitness was somewhere concern for Hardik Pandya becoming the next T20I captain which also led him to not be able to feature in all three formats of the gameAlso ReadItrsquos an emotional high Indias Sumit NagalEarlier Hardik Pandya received the love and respect of Indian fans during the Men in Blue victory parade in Mumbai Wankhede Stadium where he was getting booed during the IPL 2024 the same venue turned their boos into cheers for the star Indian allrounder after Indias T20 World Cup 2024 triumphBut a couple of weeks since the ultimate high Pandya has become a man who has also lost a few significant things Indias T20 World Cup vicecaptain Pandya was perceived as someone who would fill in the big shoes of Rohit Sharma but the news of his removal from leadership role almost coincided with his divorce announcement But Pandya showed no impact of all that when he made his first public appearance to launch his sports apparel brand with Fancode here sharing insights into his fitness even though talks in the Indian cricket circles remain around him being injuryprone Only a few months ago Pandya was at the receiving end of fans wrath for replacing Rohit as Mumbai Indians captain but he did not react until he turned it around for himself The opportunity arrived with Pandya playing a stellar role in Indias World Cup win and that was when he acknowledged that the going had actually been toughThe point that it is very very important to sometime clean your mind as well that your body has much more than what you can think and that video he watched as a 16yearold stayed with me for so long that every time in my life when my trainer is telling me to do 10 pushups Ive always ended up doing 15 the 30yearold shared And that has pushed my limits and I think slowly everyone who wants to start with a fitness journey they should focus on that said Pandya adding that his highest score in the YoYo test has been 217 only a few notches lesser than the upper limit Start pushing your barrier every single day because the human body is such a lovely creation by god that it will mould however you want it to however you want to have it its just that it just needs little hard work Pandya said He may not be new coach Gautam Gambhirs choice for captaincy but he was once described as the only player in the country to do what he can do by chief selector Ajit Agarkar Pandya shared insights into what drives himI never knew what fitness would do to me but its just that I felt it that for me I always wanted to be No 1 in everything which I do so in a habit of that I kept training a lot when I was young I pushed myself a lot ran a lot so I had a very good strong base he said Obviously there was not much knowledge about the body not much knowledge about how to increase my fitness but because my base was strong and I did the basics which you are supposed to do while training it helped me when I came to the higher level I used to bowl if Im not wrong 130s higher 130s I was able to go 140 plus 142 by pushing thats when I realised by 2017 or not as soon as I started getting more more into my body more knowledge about it and thats when I start pushing he saidWith PTI Inputs