Gujarat Titans assistant coach Aashish Kapoor is proud of young batter Sai Sudharsan's progress at the franchise. Sudharsan has been graduated to the opening spot this season.
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00:01I mean, every player is important in that way. All 25 members are picked for a reason.
00:07But he's been doing exceptionally well for GT from the last three years.
00:11It's not just this year that he's been getting runs.
00:14He's opening the innings this year, otherwise he was batting at number three.
00:19So it's been a good progression for the last three, four years that he's come up with the goods
00:25and he's doing exactly what we want him to do.
00:29I'm Ketal from In Time News.
00:37First time GT players going to play at noon, what is the precautions?
00:42First time GT player going to play at noon in such hours…
00:48No, we played the last game.
00:50But in Ahmedabad?
00:52Yeah, in Ahmedabad.
00:53That's why there is two hours.
00:55So what's the precautions?
00:57I mean, as sports people, they know exactly what to do.
01:02It's not the first time you're playing in noon.
01:04From the last 18 years there have been IPL and every year there is afternoon matches.
01:09So these guys are not, you know, not everyone is playing for the first season.
01:15So whichever team they've played for, they've played afternoon games.
01:18They know they have to hydrate themselves, take enough rest and things like that which our support staff, our physios and trainers tell them if they don't know.
01:29Most of them are international cricketers.
01:30Most of them are international cricketers.
01:32So they themselves know what needs to be done.
01:36Sir, Parish Taveh from ETV Bharat.
01:40Replacement about the Rabada and the Glenn Phillips.
01:45How it will change the chemistry and the Team 11?
01:51I think we've picked Dasun Shanaka as replacement for Glenn Phillips.
01:56But I don't know about the replacement for Rabada.
02:00That's news to me if you're telling me.
02:02We're just waiting for him.
02:04He might return.
02:05So any chance to rejoin the team?
02:08Yeah, there is chance but he's got some family, personal problems for which he's gone.
02:13Once he's sorted out with that, if it's sorted out in time, he'll be back.
02:18But we don't know when.
02:19We're just waiting as everyone is.
02:22Hi, Coach.
02:31If you could just delve into some of the reasons behind Rashid Khan's dwindling returns over the last two seasons.
02:38And what are the conversations you have with somebody as experienced as him and as successful as him?
02:43See, as cricketers, whether it's a batsman or a bowler, over a period of time when you're doing well and then you get into certain bad habits,
02:56whether it's batting or bowling, with your basics.
02:59And with Rashid, I think, it was his back which was hurting him last year, where he had to do a surgery.
03:06So sometimes when you're in so much pain and you're still playing matches, you tend to do something with the action so that the pain is less.
03:14And I think there have been a few things that we spoke this year after two, three games where he needs to make a few adjustments to his front hand which was rather closed.
03:28It should be facing the batsman when he's bowling.
03:31So he's doing that now and he's bowling better lengths from the last one or two games.
03:37Hopefully he gets his confidence back, gets a few wickets and then he'll be the old Rashid Khan again.
03:52Ashok Misty from GTPL.
03:54The question, how is the atmosphere in the team because you kept on winning now matches after matches.
04:00So are we trying to go right on the top, right for all the matches?
04:05Because the atmosphere right now in the team, it seems to be very positive.
04:09It's always positive.
04:11Even last year when we were losing, it was always positive.
04:15So with GT one thing is you will always find a positive atmosphere.
04:20That's one thing, rest assured.
04:22And yes, talking about getting to the top, that is the aim of all ten teams.
04:28It's not just GT.
04:30Even the team that is at the tenth position today, I think it's CSK, even they're signing a few players today so that they can also qualify.
04:39So this is a long tournament.
04:41You never know you could lose five and then you could end up winning seven on the trot, which has happened in the past with Mumbai Indians and other teams.
04:50So, but our aim is to play one game at a time.
04:55And we all know, I mean, you guys know, even the teams know, that seven or eight wins is a must if you want to qualify in the top four.
05:05And with the teams stacked so close, the top five, six this year, usually it is two teams who run away and then the other four teams are fighting for two slots.
05:14But this time, if you see, about four or five teams are already on eight points.
05:19So the matches are against each other as well.
05:23Like today, I think Punjab is playing.
05:25I'm not sure who they're playing.
05:27Both are on eight points.
05:28So one team will get to the ten.
05:30Tomorrow we are playing Delhi.
05:32One is on ten, one is on eight.
05:34So that's how it is.
05:36I mean, every game is an important game.
05:38It doesn't matter where the other team is positioned at the moment.
05:43So long tournament and yes, we need to win every game.
05:48That's about it.
05:50Yeah.
05:58This is Ripple from Sunday's newspaper.
06:01I mean, you see how thick the bat is these days to what it used to be in olden days.
06:19Obviously sixes are flying all over the place.
06:22So they have a certain, like five and a half ounce ball.
06:25You cannot have something lesser than that or more than that.
06:28Same way the bats, the more the thickness in the middle, you get better leverage out of it to hit the ball.
06:36And I think there is a certain parameter that the bat cannot be more than that, the weight or the thickness.
06:43And that's why the umpires are, in our times we had one or two bats in our kit bats.
06:49So umpires can come and check.
06:51Now every player has about eight to ten bats.
06:54So if they have to keep coming and checking one day before.
06:58And what if somebody gets a bat on the match day from the manufacturer.
07:03So that's why I think they are checking the particular bat with which he is coming into bat.
07:09That is the reason why they are doing it on the ground now.
07:17So that's what I am saying.
07:18There are twenty-five players.
07:19Each player has ten-ten bats, eight bats.
07:22How can they keep sitting there and checking all the bats?
07:25And what if two bats he is kept in the hotel and he is going to play with that?
07:29He has not checked that particular bat.
07:32So the bat that you take in, if the umpire feels, then they are checking that.
07:37So that's the other one that I am using there.
07:40So it's actually getting the bat that comes in there.
07:45And then that's why we are using that.
07:47So that's why we're seeing that.
07:50So we're seeing that.
07:52So that's why we are seeing that.
07:54I am just looking at this.
07:57So that's why I can have a ball in thelin Kopf.
07:58You're seeing that.
07:59So it's just doing nothing right here.
08:01You're seeing that.
08:03So I'm seeing that.
08:05Now that's why I was seeing that.