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Young cricketer Kashvee Gautam shared a video on her Instagram account where she was seen with star Indian all-rounder and Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya. In a video, Pandya fulfilled his promise and gifted Kashvee her dream bat. Now, after three days of getting uploaded the video featuring Hardik Pandya and Kashvee Gautam broke the internet and got more than 85 million views. Along with the views, the post got more than 6.2 million likes, 5000+ comments and over 126K shares.
Notably, Kashvee Gautam was seen playing for Gujarat Giants in the 2025 Women’s Premier League (WPL) and met Hardik Pandya during the tournament. She has been a great admirer of the star Indian cricketer and has also inscribed ‘HP33’ on her bat. Looking at her admiration, Pandya promised to give her a customised bat of a weight identical to hers (1100 grams). Cut to MI’s training session ahead of their last IPL 2025 fixture against Delhi Capitals, Pandya kept his promise and gave the bat to Kashvee.
Kashvee Gautam gets maiden India call for Sri Lanka tour
Kashvee Gautam had an impressive outing for Gujarat Giants in WPL 2025 where the right-arm fast bowler scalped 11 wickets in nine matches. She finished sixth in the list of leading wicket-takers of the season. After that, Kashvee also got a maiden India call for the upcoming tri-series in Sri Lanka starting on April 27. India will lock horns with the hosts Sri Lanka and South Africa in the tri-series.
India Women’s squad for tri-series in Sri Lanka:
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh, Yastika Bhatia, Deepti Sharma, Amanjot Kaur, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Arundhati Reddy, Tejal Hasabnis, Sree Charani, Shuchi Upadhyay
