Hardik Pandya was subjected to racist comments online after television actress Krystle D’Souza posted a photo on Instagram along with the cricketer which was captioned, “Mere Bhai Jaisa Koi Hard ich Nahi Hai“. No sooner than the post went up, the Mumbai Indians (MI) all-rounder was trolled mercilessly in the comments section with a few Instagram users calling him “creepy” and passing racist comments. As the trolling started to get severe, actor Aparshakti Khurrana stepped in and took on one of the users passing a lewd comment. On the field, Hardik’s has been delivering quite a few stellar performances for MI in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 so far. In IPL 12, the Baroda all-rounder has scored 380 runs at an average of 47.50 and took 14 wickets in 14 matches.

Source: Indian Express May 06, 2019 12:58 UTC