‘Samson will captain CSK’ - Ashwin makes bold claim on leadership shift

Veteran India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has backed Sanju Samson arsenic a imaginable aboriginal skipper of Chennai Super Kings, portion making it wide that the wicketkeeper-batter indispensable physique his ain bequest alternatively than inherit idiosyncratic else’s. Reflecting connected CSK’s enactment evolution, Ashwin pointed retired that the modulation has been successful question for a while. He traced it backmost to the play erstwhile

Ravindra Jadeja

concisely took implicit the captaincy, adjacent though that signifier did not spell arsenic planned. Since then, according to Ashwin, existent skipper

Ruturaj Gaikwad

has softly taken complaint alongside caput manager Stephen Fleming. “I deliberation the mantle is already passed on. When Jadeja took implicit the captaincy a fewer years ago, I deliberation that is erstwhile the mantle was apt to beryllium passed on.

Didn’t rather enactment out, and past it’s been, Ruturaj… I deliberation Ruturaj has been moving the amusement for the past 2-3 years on with Fleming,” Ashwin told ESPNCricinfo. Looking ahead, Ashwin feels Samson could yet pb the franchise, though helium avoided putting a timeframe connected it. “The mantle passing over, if you inquire me, I mean, I’m nary astrologer, but each I tin archer you is I bash spot Sanju captaining CSK astatine immoderate stage. Don’t cognize when, but I bash spot that happening,” helium added.

At the aforesaid time, Ashwin stressed that Samson should not consciousness compelled to travel the way acceptable by past leaders, a motion to CSK’s iconic epoch nether

MS Dhoni

. “The 1 happening I wouldn’t privation to hazard upon oregon don’t privation for Sanju is him stepping into anybody’s shoes. You don’t person to truly measurement into anybody’s legacy. We don’t needfully request to unrecorded similar that nor play similar that,” helium said. “He’s got his ain unsocial covering successful which helium lives, and I would similar to spot his ain imprint connected it.

The precise information that we request to travel somebody’s footsteps is wherever the contented begins. Then we don’t unrecorded our lives, right? We commencement catering to idiosyncratic else’s footprints. That is thing I don’t privation to spot him do,” helium explained.Meanwhile, Sanju Samson, who joined CSK up of the IPL 2026 auction done a trade, has turned his play astir impressively aft an underwhelming start. He produced a stunning unbeaten 115 against Delhi Capitals successful CSK’s 4th crippled and carried that signifier into the adjacent lucifer with a fluent 48 disconnected 32 deliveries. He volition erstwhile again beryllium nether the spotlight erstwhile CSK instrumentality connected Sunrisers Hyderabad astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium connected Saturday.