Axar Patel has spoken concerning the latest appointment of Suryakumar Yadav as India‘s new T20I captain, praising his management fashion and revealing his plans to debate his function with the brand new head coach, Gautam Gambhir.
In a latest interview, Axar Patel described Suryakumar Yadav as a “bowler’s captain” who retains the dressing room ambiance mild and pleasurable. “I’ve spent lots of time with Suryakumar. Surya bhai is a happy-go-lucky man. He retains the ambiance full of life, loves doing mimicry and such enjoyable stuff. I do know he’ll preserve the ambiance cool,” Patel mentioned.
Patel’s feedback underline the constructive suggestions Yadav has obtained from his friends, which performed a major function in his choice because the captain. Chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar famous that participant suggestions was essential in making the choice. “The one we all know has been across the dressing room over the past one 12 months, you get suggestions from the dressing room lots. He has obtained a very good cricketing mind and he’s nonetheless among the best T20 batters on the planet,” Agarkar talked about throughout a press convention in Mumbai.
Patel additionally mirrored on Yadav’s method to captaincy throughout a five-match T20I collection in opposition to Australia final 12 months, the place Yadav was the stand-in captain. “I not too long ago performed a five-game T20I collection when he was the captain. I do know he’s a bowler’s captain. He offers the bowlers the fields they ask for. And it was like that with me, too,” Patel mentioned. He expressed confidence that Yadav’s management fashion would stay constant, though he acknowledged {that a} fuller understanding of Yadav’s captaincy would develop over time.
With the Indian crew present process a transition part in T20Is, following the retirement of senior gamers like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja, Yadav was chosen for his robust efficiency within the format. Hardik Pandya, the frontrunner for the captaincy, was deemed much less dependable as a consequence of health considerations, making Yadav an evident alternative, in accordance with Agarkar.
Because the Indian crew heads to Sri Lanka for his or her subsequent collection, Axar Patel may even search readability on his function below the brand new head coach, Gautam Gambhir. Patel talked about, “With Gautam bhai, sure, we are going to go to Sri Lanka, there can be conferences, we are going to trade a couple of ideas and after that I’ll get to know precisely what my function is and what he thinks. I’ll get extra readability on that solely after that.”
Gambhir, who replaces Rahul Dravid as the pinnacle coach, will begin his tenure with the Sri Lanka collection. Patel’s dialogue with Gambhir is anticipated to supply additional insights into his future function throughout the crew.
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