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Record-breaking Hardik Pandya's India comeback

Hardik Pandya's return on the international stage has been sensational with the all rounder being adjudged the Player-of-the-Series.
Chitrangada Chaudhuri
In the series decider Hardik's all round show saw him join an elite list of Indian cricketers and add a feather to his cap.
In India's five-wicket win Hardik hammered 71 off 55 and then registered his career best bowling figures of 4/24 in seven overs.
Hardik's performance saw him become the first and only Indian cricketer to score a half-century and take a four-fer in both T20Is and ODIs now.
Record Show
Apart from Hardik, former Australian World-Cup winner Shane Watson is the only other cricketer to have scored a half-ton and pick up four wickets in both One Day Internationals and T20 Internationals.
Performing with both bat and ball, Pandya became the fifth Indian cricketer to score a half-century and take a four-fer in an ODI match.
Let's take a look at the Indian cricketers to score a half-century and take a four-fer in ODIs.
K Srikkath:
70 & 5/27 in 1988
Sachin Tendulkar: 141 & 4/38 in 1998
Sourav Ganguly:
130n.o & 4/21 in 1999
Yuvraj Singh:
118 & 4/28 in 2008
Yuvraj Singh:
50n.o & 5/31 in 2011
Hardik Pandya: 
50n.o & 4/24 in 2022
Hardik's heroics with both bat & ball and Rishabh Pant's maiden ODI ton saw India clinch the series 2-1.