Half of the journey of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) has been completed, after this half of the journey, many Indian players are dreaming of playing in the T20 World Cup to be held in June due to their performance. Most hype is being created about two Indian players. Both of them are all-rounders.
These two all-rounders are Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya. Many cricket experts are also giving their opinion regarding both these players going to the World Cup. In such a situation, the big question is that after half the journey of IPL, who has the upper hand, Shivam Dube or Pandya.
Shivam Dube is playing for Chennai Super Kings in IPL. Whereas, Hardik Pandya is handling the command of Mumbai Indians. Now let us understand from the statistical point of view who is dominating in IPL 2024 between Shivam Dube and Pandya.
Shivam Dube has scored a total of 311 runs in 8 IPL matches so far. His highest score during this period has been 66 not out. His average is 51.83 and strike rate is 169.95. Shivam Dube has hit 22 sixes till now (23 April), he is known for his big hitting ability.
On the other hand, the captain of Mumbai Indians is Hardik Pandya. Pandya has also played the same number of 8 matches as Shivam Dube in the current IPL, but he has disappointed with his batting. Pandya has scored only 151 runs in 8 matches at an average of 21.57. His strike rate is 142.45.
However, there is only one advantage with Hardik Pandya, in which he looks ahead of Shivam Dube . This is his bowling. Hardik has taken 4 wickets in 8 matches, in which his bowling average is 46.50 and economy rate is 10.94. Both the figures of economy rate and bowling average are worrying. Hardik Pandya has taken 57 wickets in the total 131 matches played so far in IPL. But their economy rate is 8.97, which is very second rate.
Shivam Dube has not bowled even once in this IPL season. At the same time, he did not bowl a single ball even in the 2023 season. In the 2022 IPL season, Shivam Dube bowled only 12 balls (2 overs), where he gave away 36 runs. In the 2021 IPL, Shivam Dube bowled 30 balls (5 overs) and gave 49 runs.
Shivam Dube bowled the most in the 2020 season, when he bowled a total of 9 overs (54 balls) and took 4 wickets. Just before this i.e. in the 2019 season, Shivam Dube had bowled only 10 balls. That means it is clear that Shivam Dube is behind Hardik Pandya in terms of bowling.
| Name | Match | Wicket | Average | Economy Rate |
| Hardik Pandya | 131 | 57 | 34.19 | 8.97 |
| Shivam Dube | 59 | 04 | 41.50 | 9.40 |
| Name | Match | Run | Average | Strike Rate |
| Hardik Pandya | 131 | 2460 | 29.64 | 145.65 |
| Shivam Dube | 59 | 1417 | 31.49 | 147.14 |
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30 year old Shivam Shivam Dube has played 21 T20 matches for India. Here he has 276 runs in his name at an average of 39.42 and strike rate of 145.26, while Dube also has a total of 8 wickets in his name in this format. Shivam has also played an ODI match for India, where he scored 9 runs.
30-year-old Hardik Pandya has played 11 test matches for India, where he has 532 runs and 17 wickets at an average of 31.29. At the same time, Pandya has scored 1769 runs in 86 ODI matches. His average in this format is 34.01 and strike rate is 110.35. Pandya has taken 84 wickets in ODIs. Hardik has played 92 matches for India in T20 International. In this format, he has scored 1348 runs at an average of 25.43 and strike rate of 139.83. Hardik has also taken 73 wickets in T20, where his average is 26.71 and economy rate is 8.16.
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