Rajasthan Royals (RR) captain Sanju Samson hailed the previous Indian skipper and head coach Rahul Dravid’s management capacity and opened up on what he’s attempting to study from it, the franchise’s official web site reported. Head coach Dravid and captain Samson can be reuniting in RR colors within the Indian Premier League (IPL) this 12 months, with the primary match at Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium in Hyderabad in opposition to the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on March 23. Talking on Dravid’s affect, Samson hailed Dravid’s capacity to guide others by instance, each on and off the sphere.
“There’s a lot to study from him as a personality,” Samson, the Royals’ captain for IPL 2025, stated in a JioHotstar particular, as quoted by RR’s official web site.
Dravid was the captain of the RR aspect, as part of which Samson made his IPL debut in 2013. The season was a breakthrough one for the batter, who scored 206 runs in 10 innings with a half-century.
Dravid led India in 25 Assessments and 79 ODIs, with win percentages of 57.14 and 56 per cent respectively and his management expertise are regarded extremely until at the present time. As a head coach, Dravid earned his first-ever ICC title, the T20 World Cup 2024, partnering with Indian skipper Rohit Sharma and reaching one other large excessive as a pacesetter.
Samson additionally credited Dravid for giving him a whole lot of learnings throughout his preliminary mentorship stint with RR in 2014 season of the league, saying, “All of the small situations, how he used to deal with the younger individuals, how he used to deal with the seniors, how he communicates, how he talks throughout conferences. All these issues, I quietly noticed, and I really feel like considerably I do the identical factor.”
The present RR skipper additionally revealed an trade with Dravid that has stayed in his thoughts and impressed him to comply with Dravid’s footsteps.
“When he got here again, he requested me, ‘Sanju, what do you stand for on this franchise?’ and I instructed him, ‘Sir, it is very straightforward, I simply continued from the place you left,” he concluded.
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