Gary Kirsten has seen Shubman Gill’s captaincy from shut quarters throughout his affiliation with Gujarat Titans (GT) within the Indian Premier League (IPL). The previous South African opener was the batting coach and mentor of the Titans throughout Shubman’s first season as captain within the cash-rich league in 2024.
Shubman was appointed captain of the Indian Check crew after Rohit Sharma introduced his retirement from the longest format in Might. The Punjab batter is having a troublesome time in his maiden project as India’s Check captain because the Asian giants are trailing 1-2 within the five-match collection towards England, with the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy up for grabs.
Lately, Kirsten shared his views on Gill’s captaincy, saying that he has made a very good preliminary impression and has all the skills to grow to be an incredible India captain. Kirsten additionally steered him to grow to be an incredible man supervisor like MS Dhoni.
“Effectively, it is early days. I feel he is bought nice potential. Captaincy is an entire lot of issues that you have to put collectively. He is an incredible thinker within the sport. He is a very good participant himself. However there’s an entire bunch of issues you have to get proper. And I feel man administration goes to play, like every chief. Dhoni was an unimaginable man-manager. If he can get that element of his management actually fired up, I feel he has all of the credentials to grow to be an incredible captain for India,” Kirsten stated in an interview with Rediff.com.
The Cape City-born had an incredible working relationship with Dhoni when he was the coach of the Indian crew, and the wicketkeeper-batter was the captain. Their camaraderie was instrumental in serving to the Males in Blue elevate the ODI World Cup for the primary time in 28 years.
Coming to Shubman, he has been in sensational kind with the bat in England. In six innings, he has amassed 607 runs at a mean of 101.17. The 25-year-old will look to encourage his crew to make a robust comeback towards Ben Stokes and Co.
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