“When I first saw him, he was happy-go-lucky. Prasanna, a former Tamil Nadu batsman, was Shahrukh’s first captain in first-division cricket in Chennai when the latter was around 15. “We have been practising in such a way that the situational awareness is there for him.” Karthik and Prasanna have had key roles in getting Shahrukh attuned to his role. “We always tell him that ‘this is your role, you will be playing this situation, so you be match ready.’ And exactly that situation happened this afternoon and he delivered.”
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He has been working precisely for this for the past three years,” Prasanna said. “He has the skill level to get 50 or 60 in the last four overs. So much so that Prasanna said that the Tamil Nadu dugout was confident of their chances even when the asking rate was galloping because they had complete faith in Shahrukh. Shahrukh went from opener to finisher as a result of a complete role change, and has revelled in it. He started doing that a couple of years back and ultimately got what he deserved last season ” There was a time where he was getting runs for Tamil Nadu but was not winning games. “I always kept telling him that you first win games for Tamil Nadu, and then people will recognise you. He went to multiple (IPL) selection trials but was not selected,” Tamil Nadu assistant coach Ramaswamy Prasanna told The Indian Express.
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“It was a blessing in disguise for Shahrukh. “This set of boys wanted to DESPERATELY be part of IPL,” Dinesh Karthik, who led Tamil Nadu in the previous two SMAT finals, wrote as part of a tweet on Monday.
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That same month, December 2019, he had gone for a Rajasthan Royals selection trial but hadn’t made it.