The captain has changed, but not the captaincy! Such is the philosophy of Ruturaj Gaikwad. From Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the leadership of Chennai Super Kings has come on his shoulders. However, he does not want any change in the style or style of leadership. Chennai's new captain wants to keep the culture that has built the success of Chennai, the path along which the team has become the most consistent and successful team in IPL.
Dhoni's specialty as Chennai captain was his connection and relationship with the cricketers, clarity of communication and mutual understanding and support. As a team, Chennai have followed a familiar path since the start of the IPL. From the coaching staff to the key players of the team, they have retained all of them over the years. All in all, they have managed to build a great culture, which has become the best recipe for IPL success.
So far they have participated in 14 IPLs and played in the finals a record 10 times. The title has been won jointly a maximum of 5 times. Placed in the top four 2 more times. They also jointly won the defunct Champions League T20 twice.
All these achievements were led by one man - Mahendra Singh Dhoni. But this legend's IPL career is now nearing its end. While he was on the field, they started the process of creating a new leader. Ruturaj, the successful batsman of the last few seasons, has been given the leadership.
Under the leadership of Ruturaj, Chennai have won three matches so far in five matches this season. Nothing special or different in his leadership style has been noticed yet. After Monday's win over Kolkata Knight Riders, the 27-year-old opener said he didn't want to change the way Chennai was known to try to do something different.
"I don't want to be a certain type of character. I want to go with the flow of the way things are flowing. Basically, I want to keep the culture of Chennai Super Kings going forward. That's what I think. The success we've had, what we've been doing, not to change even one iota." I don't want to."
"I just want to go on the field and make my own decisions, give as much freedom as possible, because that's what I've been seeing since I joined this team. Nothing has really changed and I'm enjoying my job."
Ruturaj said that it was Dhoni who told him about the change of leadership one day in practice before the start of the season.
"Honestly, there was no deep discussion. I was pretty cool. There was only one discussion. We were practicing, he (Dhoni) came and said these things to me. Of course, to the outside world it looks like filling a big void. But to me, I've always been there. Will be myself and want to continue the culture that is going on in the team."
He was not too surprised after hearing the news from Dhoni. For a couple of years that was his mental preparation! The team had already started trying to make him the captain, and the team culture of Chennai came out.
"I remember him telling me in 2022, 'If not next year, then the year after that, you might get a chance to lead, be ready.' From then on I was always prepared. It was not new or a surprise or a surprise to me. I know how to control the game, how the game goes, when to make a change, when to do what, because I was doing it in the state team as well."
"Even last year, Steven Fleming and I used to talk about the captaincy after every match, what I thought, what changes or bowling changes I felt were necessary, this-that and many other things. I talked to him separately after every match. . Now it's working."
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