‘We have played the most consent cricket over the last 3 years’

“We have played the most consent cricket and the wins speak for themselves. I don’t think we need to change anything and we will continue playing the way we have been doing over the last 3 years,” said a confident Shubman Gill, Captain of the Gujarat Titans IPL, just a week before their first match against Kings XI Punjab.
“If you look at our record for the last 3 years we have had the highest percentage of wins. If we can continue with that it is going to be another great season for us,” he added.
However, on a question regarding the low run rate of the team during powerplays in the 2024 edition of IPL, and the plan for this year, Gill said, “The plan is always to make maximum runs during the powerplay. Our performance wasn’t good last year whether in powerplay or after that. We couldn’t play that well and we couldn’t win as many games as we hoped to. As a batsman my responsibility is to help the team score during powerplay. We will try to better the things we couldn’t last year.”
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The online chatter has been around the role of out-of-form Jos Buttler, England’s captain. Gill explained the rationale: ”Jos Butler has been taken as a wicketkeeper… We will get a better idea of the battling line up once the matches start. I think each batsman gets a role that helps the entire team flourish.”
Gill evaded a question on the possibility of his taking the reins of the Indian cricket team. When asked about his experiences playing under Kohli and Sharma and how he sees himself at a junction when India is on the threshold of a change of guard in the Indian team before the 2027 World Cup, Gill said, “I’ve had more experience captaining Gujarat Titans then I have the Indian cricket team and the experience that I have got from Ashish paaji and Vikram (Solanki) paaji is immensely treasurable for me. I’ve played under various captains with different qualities and that is what you tend to take forward and that is what I’m trying to do.”
Gujarat Titans won the tournament in their first edition and finished as runners-up in their second outing. Colonel Arvinder Singh, the COO of the team said, “You have no kind of idea of the kind of hard work these people have put in, on and off the field, to ensure that right from season 1 when many of the so-called pandits said that it was a fluke (in the context of Titans winning their first IPL title in the year they were formed). They started taking GT seriously only in the second season.”