The Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya made a great comeback after being away from cricket for a long period of time due to his injury. First he led his IPL team Gujarat Titans in an impeccable manner as GT won the IPL 2022 in its debut season and now he is performing superbly in ongoing 5-match T20I series against South Africa which is taking place in India.
The Gujarat cricketer has been lauded by not just cricket fans but the former cricketers as well and few of them are of the opinion that he should be the next captain of the Indian team after Rohit Sharma retires. Hardik Pandya has certainly worked very hard on his game as well as on his fitness in the past couple of years and has answered critics with his performances. All this has happened because Pandya Junior led a much disciplined life but presently he is getting trolled because of one of his interviews in which he talked about his sleep schedule.
Hardik Pandya tried to prove a point by saying that for four months he used to sleep by 9:30 pm and get up by 5:00 am in order to get trained. But what online users found funny is that Hardik Pandya sounded like Bollywood actress Ananya Panday who got mercilessly trolled for talking about her struggles in an interview.
It all started when the snippet of this interview was posted by an online user:
“No one knows what I went through the six months that I was off. I’ve gotten up at 5 in the morning to make sure I train. I slept at 9:30 the night for four months. I always worked hard in my life and it has always given me the result I wanted.”
The online user posted the snippet with the caption, “Struggling to see the ‘struggle’ in a 7.5 hour sleep schedule, but filing this away in the list of ‘elite athlete struggles’ that currently contains Yastika Bhatia’s forsaking of chicken biryani.”
Struggling to see the “struggle” in a 7.5 hour sleep schedule, but filing this away in the list of “elite athlete struggles” that currently contains Yastika Bhatia’s forsaking of chicken biryani. pic.twitter.com/XnVoG7NPmj
— Vaishnavi Bhaskaran (@vaishbhaskaran) June 12, 2022
Many online users pointed out that the 7.5 hr schedule that Hardik Pandya is trying to call ‘struggle’ is a normal routine for athletes and it is nothing extraordinary about which he is bragging. Soon people started trolling the cricketer for his statement and for overhyping his sleep schedule:
Right? So random. You’re working hard to put yourself in a good position. How else will he buy 5cr watches and get into trouble with customs?
— Vaishnavi Bhaskaran (@vaishbhaskaran) June 12, 2022
What's struggling in this
— Anonymous (@Hackedtwiter) June 12, 2022
https://twitter.com/Alpha_V18/status/1535912895162089473
The problem is not with him taking pride. All credit to him. The problem is this statement, he seems to imply that he has struggled because of a lifestyle change. Literally 100s of wrestlers at chhatrasal follow this same lifestyle for their lives and that's just one example
— Ashish Kumar Rai (@ashish_raiii) June 12, 2022
😭🤣 esa struggle har koyi karna chahe ga
— Bleed Blue (@CricCrazyVeena) June 12, 2022
https://twitter.com/pracheetijoshi/status/1535918876600709121
— Asli BCCI Women (@AsliBCCIWomen) June 12, 2022
Laughed when I first read this from Hardik. This is your only job…you need to be good at it.
— Ganesh V (@ganeshkyaba) June 12, 2022
Spot on. His only struggle was that he could not party every night like he used to and had to cut down on womanising probably.
I wonder what was his schedule before this ‘struggling times’ began— Creative indian (@Creativeindian5) June 18, 2022
He probably had to forgo the other parts of his life mentioned in #koffeewithkaran which for him is the real struggle
— Anand Menon (@I_menonanand) June 12, 2022
Bruh that's the routine of any international cricketer, i don't know what new did he do lmao https://t.co/29Yy76G0yk
— Alumnus (@cricket_bowl) June 12, 2022
The online user who posted the snippet also responded when some online users came in support of the cricketer and stated that it is not easy to live such a disciplined life:
To people saying variations of omg he can’t stay out and party anymore- tough titties. That’s part of being an elite athlete-your body is your asset, you do whatever to make sure it functions well. Even the budget king of good times will grow old and has to grow up. 🤷🏻
— Vaishnavi Bhaskaran (@vaishbhaskaran) June 12, 2022
I don't see a problem here. Getting up at 5 and training hard daily for months itself is laudable.
— Gaurav (@brightkknight) June 12, 2022
Kitna hate de raha bhai ..banda ground se yaha tak aaya hai..bahoot efforts lagte hai top level k consistently perform karna.
— Avisek Rishu Jha (@Abhishe02998747) June 12, 2022
He’s talking about the discipline here
— Ravi (@rajinder_ravi) June 12, 2022
Ah. We are not playing Olympics of Struggle. His struggles are as valid as Yastika's.
Constant injury, doubts about comeback & other off-field things can take a huge toll on mental health.Need not to put Hardik down while make case for Yastika B. https://t.co/dWPhtU28Sv
— Warrior Po (@_WarriorPo) June 12, 2022
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