Injured Gujarat Titans (GT) pacer Mohammed Shami has opened up about Shubman Gill taking up the captaincy of the franchise for IPL 2024. Gill changed Hardik Pandya as captain of GT following the all-rounder’s commerce to Mumbai Indians forward of the public sale final 12 months. Gill will make his captaincy debut in opposition to Hardik’s MI on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Speaking on the change in management, Shami, who has been dominated out of the season resulting from an damage, steered that captaincy arrived too early for Gill.

“As you said (the anchor suggested that captaincy came early for Gill), the captaincy came early, and he wouldn’t have expected it; I feel the same. But you had to take the responsibility one day. You have been performing well in past seasons and producing good performances in international cricket, too,” Shami instructed Cricbuzz.

However, Shami additionally had a chunk of recommendation for Gill, saying that the teen should not let the captaincy strain have an effect on his sport.

“You don’t have to take too much load over the captaincy, just be normal and have patience. The more you stay calm, the better it will be. You have the responsibility now; you can’t say no. Just focus on your skills and how you can balance your team,” he added.

Gill may be uncooked in terms of captaincy however he’s broadly thought of the ‘subsequent huge factor’ in Indian cricket, so far as his batting is worried. But, that does not take away the truth that there will likely be new challenges for Gill to ace as he takes up the captaincy position.

At GT, Gill has huge sneakers to fill after Hardik led the franchise to the title of their debut season in 2022, earlier than additionally main them to the ultimate final season the place they misplaced to Chennai Super Kings.

After profitable the Orange Cap within the earlier version, Gill can be raring to tackle the Mumbai Indians in GT’s marketing campaign opener.