NEW DELHI: South Africa’s hard-hitting batter David Miller is an enormous admirer of Hardik Pandya’s captaincy and is filled with reward for the Indian all-rounder.
The southpaw feels that Pandya can flip the Indian T20 staff right into a fearless group of gamers along with his exemplary readability of thoughts and work ethic.
With India eyeing the 2024 T20 World Cup and present skipper Rohit Sharma not anticipated to hold on, Pandya is taken into account a really perfect substitute within the shortest format.
Miller, who grew to become among the best finishers within the recreation during the last couple of years, mentioned, “Pandya is a pure chief. He lets you play the way in which that you simply really feel like you may and had performed a vital position in steering Gujarat Titans to the title on their IPL debut.”
“Just playing under him in the IPL, I feel he is very inclusive as a leader, he wants everyone to be close to each other,” the South African mentioned.
“At the same time, he is clear with his discipline. He has got a lot of good attributes of a leader.
“In IPL he received higher and higher because the season progressed and I see him doing that (with the Indian staff as nicely),” said Miller on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi T10 League.
Earlier, Pandya – who led India to a 1-0 series-win in New Zealand recently – said if he is considered for a leadership role in future, he will captain the side in his own way and his team will display the brand of cricket he knows the best.
He was asked how he perceives the views of Sunil Gavaskar or Ravi Shastri, who see in him a long-term captain.
“If persons are saying, you be ok with it however until one thing occurs (official announcement), you may’t say,” Pandya said after the rain-hit third T20.
“To be trustworthy, my factor is straightforward, if I do one match or one sequence, I’ll lead the staff my method, how I see and understand the sport. Whenever I’m given the chance, I’ll at all times exit and play the model of cricket I do know.
As a unit, we are going to show my model. As far as no matter (captaincy) is available in future, we are going to see,” the all-rounder said.
(With inputs from PTI)
The southpaw feels that Pandya can flip the Indian T20 staff right into a fearless group of gamers along with his exemplary readability of thoughts and work ethic.
With India eyeing the 2024 T20 World Cup and present skipper Rohit Sharma not anticipated to hold on, Pandya is taken into account a really perfect substitute within the shortest format.
Miller, who grew to become among the best finishers within the recreation during the last couple of years, mentioned, “Pandya is a pure chief. He lets you play the way in which that you simply really feel like you may and had performed a vital position in steering Gujarat Titans to the title on their IPL debut.”
“Just playing under him in the IPL, I feel he is very inclusive as a leader, he wants everyone to be close to each other,” the South African mentioned.
“At the same time, he is clear with his discipline. He has got a lot of good attributes of a leader.
“In IPL he received higher and higher because the season progressed and I see him doing that (with the Indian staff as nicely),” said Miller on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi T10 League.
Earlier, Pandya – who led India to a 1-0 series-win in New Zealand recently – said if he is considered for a leadership role in future, he will captain the side in his own way and his team will display the brand of cricket he knows the best.
He was asked how he perceives the views of Sunil Gavaskar or Ravi Shastri, who see in him a long-term captain.
“If persons are saying, you be ok with it however until one thing occurs (official announcement), you may’t say,” Pandya said after the rain-hit third T20.
“To be trustworthy, my factor is straightforward, if I do one match or one sequence, I’ll lead the staff my method, how I see and understand the sport. Whenever I’m given the chance, I’ll at all times exit and play the model of cricket I do know.
As a unit, we are going to show my model. As far as no matter (captaincy) is available in future, we are going to see,” the all-rounder said.
(With inputs from PTI)