Gujarat Titans assistant coach Ashish Kapoor praised Sai Sudharsan for sticking to the traditional cricketing strokes, which helped him emerge as the top run-getter this IPL season.
00:00No, I think they understand cricket themselves. They're smart cricketers, smart kids.
00:06Yeah, you have to keep telling them sometimes, but he analyzes his game himself.
00:13And by what you said, he wants to attack.
00:17If you see his attacking is still getting boundaries, not hitting sixes.
00:21If he gets that one ball which is short or something which he can play, he gets a six of that.
00:26But the rest of the shots is proper cricket attacking shots along the ground or the cut shots or the flicks that he plays.
00:35So he's more aware to play these kind of shots at the start of his innings, which the percentage was less last year, which has become better this year.
00:56If you see Shubman as a batsman also, basically a cricketer, whether he's a good thinker or not, and I think he's a good thinker of his own batting.
01:03I've seen him from under-16. Actually, in NCI, I've done two camps with him.
01:05So from the under-16 age group, he's a good thinker or not, and I think he's a good thinker of his own batting.
01:09I've seen him from under-16. Actually, in NCI, I've done two camps with him.
01:13So from the under-16 age group, I've seen that he used to use a brain a lot more than a lot of other guys at his age.
01:25And that is one quality that is needed to be a captain, where you can use your brains for yourself and for 10 other people.
01:32How you're going to win matches. And we've seen this and the moment we got an opportunity, when Hardik left,
01:37we could have always thought about it, and it's a good thinker.
01:41And it's a good thinker. It's a good thinker.
01:44It's a good thinker. It's a good thinker.
01:47It's a good thinker. It's a good thinker.
01:50It's a good thinker. It's a good thinker.
01:54We could have always gone with someone else senior as a captain, but we took a chance with him.
01:59And it was his luck last year that Hardik left, and Shami was injured, and he was out of form.
02:09So all those things put together, but we could still see that he was trying hard as a captain.
02:15And you can see the results this year.
02:19I mean, the captaincy has been the same, but he's in better form this year,
02:24which is helping himself and the team.
02:27So that is one very important thing in IPL, that your players should be your top players.
02:33Important players have to be in good form, and there should be less injuries in your team.
02:38This is one because it's such a long format.
02:42You get one or two guys, important guys injured, and your whole team can take a back seat.
02:47So that way we are lucky this year.
02:50I mean, we'll have to see. I'm not an astrologer.
02:56I mean, we are seeing T20 cricket, you know.
03:14And when Dhoni was made captain for the World Cup for the first time, he had not captained anywhere.
03:19So nobody knew 10 years, 12 years down the line, he's going to be one of the world's best captain.
03:25If you had asked somebody at that point in time, including Dhoni,
03:29what do you think of your captaincy? There would be no answer.
03:32So you have to see a person for over a period of time before you can make any judgment on him.
03:38And he's not even started. So it's very difficult to say.
03:43I mean, he was cautiously and also he was not timing the ball all that well.
04:06But what was important is he didn't throw away his wicket even though the total was 200.
04:11It was, it's so easy that you're chasing 200, which is 10 runs and over.
04:16And if you're not timing the ball, you could play one or two bad shots and get out and push off.
04:21But he kept, I think Sai played an important role in that because he kept scoring runs at the start.
04:28And they were not getting bogged down. Even though he was not able to time the ball initially,
04:32Sai was playing beautifully and that took the pressure off him.
04:36So he got that extra time to get in. And then once he was in, he played some good shots.
04:42Turgd, run out.
04:43And then once again, thanks very much.
04:44Let me just go on and drugs.
04:45So he's just like, how to do this.
04:47And let me just go on.
04:48I'm going to go on and then I think he's going to help us.
04:51I mean, you know, he's going to be a dream.
04:53I'm going to go after that.
04:55I'm just going to talk about him.
04:56How do you think he's going to help us?
04:58I'm going to do the same thing as well.
04:59Absolutely.
05:00I know I do know what my question is that I've said.
05:02I'm not looking forward to that.
05:03I'm going to be, I'm just going to be a little bit of a week where I can't go with it.
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