<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/cricket/article/odi-world-cup-2027-team-india-head-coach-gautam-gambhir-heaps-praise-on-jasprit-bumrah-and-hardik-pandya-23651484" rel="nofollow"><strong>India all-rounder Hardik Pandya</strong></a>&rsquo;s girlfriend, Mahieka Sharma, detailed his arduous journey to the pinnacle of cricket in an emotional note on the occasion of his 33rd birthday on Sunday.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Till Hardik was 19, he was a pure No. 4 batsman in Baroda. Hyper and athletic, cricket became the way to channel his energy,&rdquo; Mahieka wrote to her 723,000-strong Instagram following.</p>
<p>She also highlighted his poor education and a probable learning disability.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Barely educated, poor, socially excluded and considered a rebel because he never learnt the performative norms common to those with conventional upbringing. He didn&rsquo;t seem to be getting any favours either. There also wasn&rsquo;t any infrastructure in the locality to identify if he had a learning disability, which he described as &lsquo;numbers and words flying around.&rsquo; But he had a knack for working like a horse, and this was his biggest cheat code. No amount of dreaming could pen the script he was about to live. My letter might only dip into 3 per cent of the well of greatness of his story,&rdquo; added Mahieka.</p>

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