Hardik Pandya is still recovering from a quadriceps injury, calf strain, and associated leg niggles that kept him out of recent white-ball assignments, alongside earlier recurring back and ankle issues. He has been out of international action since the T20 World Cup 2026. Pandya has been working hard at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru.
Gambhir said (as quoted by India Today), "If you talk about Hardik, very few teams have a player like that who can bowl 10 overs for you, plus bat at number six or seven, plus with that impact. But he needs game time as well."
Gautam Gambhir wants Hardik Pandya fully fit ahead of ODI World Cup
"Because after the IPL, he hasn't played a lot of cricket. So if the focus is only that he has to play the 50-over format, then he might be short of cricket. Game time going into the World Cup is going to be extremely, extremely important. You cannot go there half-cooked."
"Red-ball still remains our priority": Gautam Gambhir on importance of Test Cricket
The team India head coach also emphasised the importance of Test cricket; he believes that India is a dominant force in red-ball cricket, though under him the side has struggled in the traditional format of the game. He also stated that the main focus for the Men in Blue remains Test cricket, despite good performance in the T20 format.
"It's not the other way around. I've never believed that a strong T20 cricket nation is a strong cricketing nation. So red-ball still remains our priority," said Gambhir
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