Manifestation, keeping things simple: SRH’s skipper Ishan Kishan speaks on India comeback, getting franchise’s leadership

Hyderabad,mar 25
Ahead of his side’s Indian Premier League (IPL) season, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) stand-in captain Ishan Kishan spoke on getting the leadership role within the franchise and on how the power of manifestation helped him earn his way back into the Indian team and live “some of his best days” with the side as a T20 World Cup trophy winning unit.SRH will start their IPL campaign against defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on March 28. Ishan, who made a surprise return to Indian T20I side ahead of T20 World Cup and took the cricketing world by storm with his scintillating performances in domestics and international, has got the fruits of his hard work in form of a shiny T20 World Cup trophy, two T20 WC ‘Player of the Match’ trophies and the SRH captaincy as regular skipper Pat Cummins continues to recover from the injury which caused him to miss majority of The Ashes and the T20 World Cup in entirety.Speaking in a video by SRH, Kishan spoke on how he always “wanted to be a leader and take the team forward through whatever situation”. He also revealed what his captaincy mantra would be, that is, to keep things simple and his players in a good headspace.”I am very overwhelmed, and I am very happy that I got this opportunity to lead this team. And, to be very honest, I am going to just keep it simple, not to do so much because when players come for IPL, I think they are all very good players. You just need to make sure that they are on the right track.And their mindset does not change after a few innings, going here and there. And the rest is, you know, it is going to be a good season, I guess, and we will just do it together. I think there is lots and lots and lots of learning in this season because I will tell you, in the last few years, I have understood one thing, the most important thing for a cricketer is to be in a very good headspace throughout the season,” he added.Ishan said that one is calm and composed and aware of things that are happening, then they are going to do well for their team no matter what.”So, mostly this season, we will make sure we just stay in the present, we just keep it simple and do as much hard work as we can before the match starts. But in the match, we are just going to enjoy the game and take one match at a time,” he added.