I Will Lead The Way I Want To: Ruturaj Gaikwad's No-Nonsense Verdict On Emulating MS Dhoni's Leadership

Ruturaj Gaikwad, who will lead the Indian side taking part in the Asian Games 2023 in China has made his point clear about following MS Dhoni’s footsteps while captaining India.

Ruturaj Gaikwad has spent a lot of time sharing the dressing room with MS Dhoni as both play for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. As a result, there are expectations that Ruturaj will try to imitate MS Dhoni in his leadership and will hopefully lead the team to victory in the Asian Games.

The India National Cricket Team is taking part in the Asian Games event for the first time and BCCI announced the team for the same in July 2023.

They went with Ruturaj Gaikwad ahead of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rahul Tripathi to lead the side as he has a good amount of experience captaining the Maharashtra team in List-A games. Gaikwad was also named as the vice-captain of the Indian side when they played against Ireland in August 2023.

The Indian Women’s team have already won the gold medal beating Sri Lanka in the finals and now expectations are even higher from the men to get a gold medal for India.

The Indian team for the Asian Games have some extremely talented players and they are undoubtedly the strongest team in the Asian Games Men’s Cricket event. The squad has names like Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, and Yashasvi Jaiswal who became really popular amongst the Indian fans after a wonderful IPL 2023 campaign.

Ruturaj Gaikwad Will Try To Follow MS Dhoni’s Footsteps In Certain Aspects

“I will try to be myself and not really look at what he ( Dhoni) usually does. Obviously, yes you have to pick out some things which he does really well, how he handles situations and how he handles particular players during a match. Obviously, these are a few things I really took from him, but I would like to lead the way I want to. I just want the players to express themselves and give as much freedom as I can,” said Ruturaj Gaikwad.

India will directly play in the quarter-finals of the Asian Games and they will look forward to building on the form they are carrying. Recently, the Indian team won the Asia Cup, and winning the gold medal in the Asian Games will prove India’s dominance in Cricket across the continent.

India Squad for Asian Games 2023: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh.