Prospective TN Openers score Centuries together again
Twice in two weeks, Jolly Rovers' openers have posted a big century partnership- this time a double- raising their stake for the TN opening spot
For the 2nd week in a row prospective TN openers Sai Sudarshan and Kaushik Gandhi struck centuries for Jolly Rovers on the first day of the league match. This section had featured a story after the first day of their match against Sea Hawks at the IIT ground end of last month after the two put on 185 for the opening wicket. And they today they did better getting the team off to a rollicking start posting a double century stand.
It may be recalled that TN Chairman of Selectors S Vasudevan spoke to Sai on tea on that opening day after he failed to convert his century into a big knock (https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2022/08/tn-selectors-chairman-vasudevan-sai.html). That seemed to have had bit of a positive impact on him as he went on to play a bigger innings today though once again he did not convert it into a double hundred.
Kaushik Gandhi, who has a penchant for big innings did his chances for a spot in the TN team no harm with an unbeaten century on the opening day. He will be looking to convert this tomorrow into a really big century to compensate for the poor start he had to the league season.
Kaushik had told this writer at tea in the earlier match about the importance of converting his own century into a big one. Last month, in a conversation with this writer, he expressed keenness to perform well for TN this season and these two centuries would have given him a lot of confidence ahead of the state selection (https://prtraveller.blogspot.com/2022/08/kaushik-m-gandhi-tn-opener-tnpl-captain.html).
With the form that he is in, Sai should be an automatic selection in all formats for TN this season. And with the two centuries in a fortnight, Kaushik too has made a case for himself.