Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 2025 IPL season was minimize quick after simply 5 matches, when he was pressured out because of an elbow harm. With the batter dominated out, Chennai Tremendous Kings’ captaincy duties went again to M.S. Dhoni.
Gaikwad watched from residence as CSK had a poor marketing campaign, changing into the primary workforce to be eradicated from the event.
Gaikwad describes the character of the harm — struck on the elbow when dealing with a pacer — as a “fluke”. “There are some issues which you can’t management. I had some good household time through the layoff. I loved my time at residence,” Gaikwad mentioned right here on Thursday.
The 28-year-old is taking full management of his comeback graph, which started with a century within the Buchi Babu Invitational event a few weeks in the past. On Thursday, Gaikwad made a profitable return to First Class cricket, placing a superb 184 for West Zone in opposition to Central Zone within the Duleep Trophy semifinal on the BCCI COE Floor (2).
Gaikwad acknowledged that he has been engaged on his pink ball sport and easing into full match health. He’s comfortable to bat at quantity 4 within the longer format, versus his most popular opening spot in white-ball cricket.
“Once I first joined the Maharashtra workforce, there was just one spot out there. Every time there have been two correct openers taking part in, I batted at three. And now I really feel actually comfy within the center order,” Gaikwad mentioned.
Revealed on Sep 04, 2025