Virat Kohli congratulates the "man of the moment" Hardik Pandya for his fantastic performance

Virat Kohli & Co. have done a fantastic job in all the three games. They have earned themselves another ODI victory and with that, a series win. Kohli has now equalled MS Dhoni’s feat of 9 consecutive ODI victories. After perishing on a duck in the first ODI Kohli came back and scored a fighting 52 and a brilliant 92 in the next two ODIs. While Hardik Pandya has been the star right through the two leg-spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav have also done extremely well. Pandya has scored big runs in this series, picked wickets and that too against a quality opposition.

The two Mumbai boys, Ajinkya Rahane and Rohit Sharma have done extremely well at the top. Even today they webbed a magnificent 139-run partnership to lay the foundation for the chase. Both of them scored 70 odd runs today but it was again Pandya who stole the limelight.

He played a brilliant knock of 83 in the first game and then a 78 in the third ODI. He has also picked five wickets in the series along with 181 runs with two games still to go. He is probably the Man of the Series already. Considering the situation of the game, coach Ravi Shastri decided to promote Pandya to number 4 in the batting order today and he did the job anchoring the innings and almost giving it the finishing touches.

Kohli and Pandya indulge in some banter

Virat Kohli recorded a small video with the all-rounder which he posted on his social media profiles. He was with Hardik and KL Rahul was also seen at the background. The elated skipper talked about the series win and how Hardik has been the “man of the moment”. Virat was happy that Hardik was able to perform at number 4 as well.

He also used the hashtag ‘Number One’ to indicate that his team has attained the No.1 position in the ICC ODI Rankings with this win.

The video was captioned as “Ladies and gentlemen, here is the man of the moment @hardikpandya7(Also @klrahul11 at the back) Great win, series clinched #NumberOne.”