Gujarat Titans coach speaks about being ‘Transparent’ while communicating with their overseas players

Parthiv speaks about communication with overseas players for IPL

Gujarat titans assistant coach Parthiv Patel has stated that the franchise was transparent with their communication with all of their overseas players as per the security situation in India after the border conflict between India and Pakistan, which played a key role in getting most of the players back to play.

The IPL was suspended for one week after the border conflict in the wake of Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 tourists, including one from Nepal, got killed.

Asked about how overseas players reacted when the league was temporarily suspended, Parthiv said: “They they knew what was happening. There was obviously transparency about the situation.”

“The communication was bang on. So there was no question (confusion). They were quite happy with the way communication was happening with them, so we did not have any concerns,” he added.

Parthiv stated that the situation was not under anyone’s control, However, they would have wished to keep the momentum going as it is.

“See, we are in a situation right now where you know, obviously we would have liked to have played games, we had that, but the situation was such that you can’t do anything about it. You have to just accept it and move on from there,” the former India stumper said.

“And obviously lot of our players didn’t go back. We were training back in Ahmedabad. We feel that these are the things which are not in your control, so you don’t want to think about it at the moment. We are playing good cricket and we want to carry on with that,” he added.

Unlike other teams, in order to decreases the pressure on the team, Gujarat Titans are going to get their main foreign players to which Parthiv stated that he could not be more confident.

“I can’t speak for any other team. But as you said, we are not losing too many players. Whatever the situation is we are quite confident that the players who will come in will step up and perform,” Parthiv concluded.

Gujarat Titans are now set to face Delhi Capitals tomorrow (May 18) at the Arun Jaitley stadium in Delhi.