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Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya is afloat acceptable and has been cleared by the Sports Science squad of BCCI's Centre of Excellence to enactment successful the upcoming three-match ODI bid against Afghanistan starting connected Sunday (June 14/, 2026) successful Dharamsala.
The 32-year-old Pandya, who missed rather a fewer IPL matches for Mumbai Indians owed to backmost spasms, has been astatine the CoE successful Bengaluru since June 2.
“Hardik was connected a vacation overseas earlier helium checked successful astatine the CoE connected June 2. Over the adjacent 5 days, helium did respective lucifer simulations and adjacent bowled (full quota of) 10 overs,” a BCCI root told PTI.
“There has been nary discomfort and the accusation is that his fittingness information for assorted parameters has been okayed by Strength and Conditioning coaches astatine the CoE,” the root added.
On Monday (June 8, 2026), India's adjunct manager Sitanshu Kotak had said that though helium doesn't person an update connected Pandya's fittingness status, helium believed the all-rounder was doing fine.
Pandya is an important cog successful India's achromatic shot acceptable up fixed the equilibrium helium lends to the broadside with his gait bowling and lusty hits during the decease overs.
The astir relieving facet is that Pandya is bowling 10 overs successful grooming league which means that helium is acceptable for the rigours of 50-over cricket.
It is, however, not wide whether Pandya volition articulation with the squad successful Chandigarh for a grooming league nether lights oregon straight nexus up successful Dharamsala which was the archetypal plan.
Meanwhile erstwhile skipper Rohit Sharma is besides astatine CoE to get a measure his hamstring niggle that kept him retired of enactment for a fig of matches for MI during the caller IPL.
