The Indian team faces England in the final of the Under 19 World Cup 2022. Team India has shown a champion-like game in this tournament. Rajvardhan Hangargekar performance in all three areas, batting, bowling and fielding, has been excellent. There is one player in this team who has caught the attention of many people with his game. This is the name of Rajvardhan Hangargekar. He is a fast bowler and is known to score fast runs down the order. It is being said that in IPL 2022, behind this player, IPL teams can open the mouths of the safes.
Rajvardhan Hangargekar is a resident of Tuljapur town of Maharashtra. He proceeded here playing with a tennis ball. Initially he was an off spinner. He started bowling fast when he was 14 years old. After a stellar performance for Osmanabad, he was selected for the Vijay Merchant Trophy in 2016-17. During this, this player caught the attention of the team’s strength and conditioning coach Tejas Matapurkar. He became a fan of this player’s practice and named him Stallion.
Matapurkar told Sportstar about Rajvardhan, his working style and bowling speed were amazing. That’s why I used to tell him to work on fitness by staying in Pune instead of staying at home. He was ready to come but needed help. So I asked him to come to my house and stay there. Now Rajvardhan lives in a rented apartment but spends most of his time at Matapurkar’s house.
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Rajvardhan worked a lot on his running after going to Pune and made him fit for fast bowling. For this, he took help from well-known coach of fast running, Sanjay Patankar. For seven to eight months, Rajvardhan worked and trained with Patankar. It benefited and by 2018 Rajvardhan’s stature became like a fast bowler. From here he goes under the guidance of Mohan Jadhav, who was coach of Rituraj Gaikwad at Dilip Vengsarkar Academy. Jadhav told Sportstar that in 2018 Rajvardhan had the pace but had to learn the art of swinging the ball. Also, he did not have the skills to trap the batsman.
In 2018, the speed of Rajvardhan Hangergekar was around 127 kmph. Mohan Jadhav believes that if he does not get injured, he will be one of India’s fastest bowlers. In the Under 19 World Cup, Rajvardhan Hangargekar had bowled the ball at a speed of 141.7 kilometers per hour in the semi-final against Australia. Rajvardhan Hangargekar has made a place in the senior team of Maharashtra in domestic cricket. He has 10 wickets in five List A matches. Now after the Under 19 World Cup, he wants to be a part of the Indian team.
