Is Urvil Patel MS Dhoni's successor as CSK's wicketkeeper? Assistant coach reacts

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CSK assistant coach Sridharan Sriram said that it will be too early to say if Urvil Patel is being groomed as the MS Dhoni's successor as the team's new wicketkeeper. Urvil has made a bright start to life in the colours of Chennai.

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00:00Shantadeep here from the Hindu, obviously that time of the year when they start asking

00:04questions about MS's future again, has he, you know, given any hints or anything of that

00:09sort?

00:10Any talks?

00:11Not as… not as much as I know, so I don't think we really know what's happening.

00:18Thanks.

00:19So, as long as entertainment is concerned because tomorrow's match is going to be

00:27a big scoring match as we expect. What do you feel about that?

00:30Yeah, I think I still haven't had a close look at the wicket. They were still preparing

00:36it yesterday, it was still fresh, but it looks good, like good covering of grass, so I definitely

00:41need to have a closer look today before we can make any assumptions.

00:45You know, settling at the bottom of the table, being in Chennai Super Kings, you know, big

00:59name, big franchise, how much psychologically has it played this thing, the performance of

01:05this season? Not just on the players' mind, how do you see it to be and how do you plan

01:11the future to be now? What next for CSK?

01:14No, I think the good thing is Flem, Ritu and MS, they really… they've got a clear idea

01:22of what went wrong and what needs to be done, so I think the road ahead is quite clear, so

01:28which I think is a real positive.

01:29The middle order has been quite a concern in terms of batting, you know, it has been up

01:35and down, many people have come in and others have gone out. So does not having a settled

01:41middle order resulted in this position in the table?

01:45I think, yeah, everybody knows that the season hasn't gone as what we wanted. It's not only

01:51about the middle order. Cricket is such a complex game that one has a catapult effect on everything

02:01else, so I think it's just not about the middle order, it's just about how we have played the

02:06whole year and how the results have gone. So it's very unfair to put a finger on any one

02:11specific thing, but the good thing is, as I said, we're very clear on the road ahead, so

02:15I think that's a real good positive going forward.

02:18Are your youngsters likely to kind of make their debut here at Ahmedabad? And the other

02:25thing is, Urvil Patel, have you been kind of grooming him for the next wicketkeeper of

02:31CSK?

02:32No, I think Urvil is an amazing talent. We've seen that he's such a fearless cricketer, he's

02:38really got fast hands, and being a keeper obviously helps. So I think whether grooming him to be

02:45the next cricket keeper is still a long way off, but I think as a batsman he adds value

02:49to this side, and I think he's had a very good start to the IPL. He's just two games

02:54old, so we really don't want to hype him up as well, but all we know is a phenomenal talent,

03:01and he's got a very good future ahead of him.

03:08So Sai Sudarshan just got his maiden call-up, test call-up for India, you've seen him very

03:12closely. What do you think of Sai Sudarshan, the test player, and his well deserved test

03:18call-up?

03:19Oh, I think he's an amazing player, there's no doubt about it. His work ethic, the way

03:24he's really blossomed as a batsman in the last 24 months, I think it's phenomenal, and if

03:31we look at it from a purely Tamil Nadu point of view, I think it's great for our state that

03:36a boy of that caliber is coming up the ranks, and I just really can't wait for him to make

03:42his test debut and make our state and the country really proud. I think he will end up as one

03:47of the best ever batsmen TNS had.

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