Doing nothing can certainly be a irritating job. All of Gujarat Titans’ middle-order batters would attest to this paradox. The Titans’ prime three —Shubman Gill, B. Sai Sudharsan, and Jos Buttler — have accounted for 1,718 of the two,335 runs (74 per cent) the staff has scored in IPL 2025.
M. Shahrukh Khan and Rahul Tewatia have had little or no to do whereas Sherfane Rutherford has give you just a few very important cameos.
Matthew Wade, player-turned-assistant coach of GT, understands that the middle-order is alarmingly low on recreation time. So, the administration has give you a ‘no-nets-up’ training method to get the boys acquainted with match conditions.
While addressing the media on the eve of the match towards Lucknow Super Giants, he stated, “The middle-order — Sherfane, Shahrukh and Tewatia— had a good impact on games when they got the opportunity. They just haven’t had a lot of game time over the past few weeks. So, we’re trying to give that to them as much as we can. It’s obviously very hard to simulate a match. But giving them opportunities to bat on the ‘B’ ground with no nets up to at least feel like there’s a little bit more match (like) intensity at training is something we’ll try and do over the next week or so.”
Published – May 21, 2025 08:40 pm IST
