Gujarat Lions owner: Happy with my squad

"Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Dwayne Bravo and all are great players and have done well for their respective countries and I am happy that these players would play for Gujarat Lions," said team owner Keshav Bansal.

Published : Apr 04, 2016 17:52 IST , Rajkot

Despite Gujarat Lions' skipper Suresh Raina's (right) poor run with the bat, team owner Keshav Bansal (left) is confident of the former leading the team well.
Despite Gujarat Lions' skipper Suresh Raina's (right) poor run with the bat, team owner Keshav Bansal (left) is confident of the former leading the team well.
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Despite Gujarat Lions' skipper Suresh Raina's (right) poor run with the bat, team owner Keshav Bansal (left) is confident of the former leading the team well.

Gujarat Lions owner Keshav Bansal was happy about the fact that his franchise managed to get “experienced and talented” players in the squad.

“We have a strong core team, we worked hard on structure draft that was submitted to the Indian Premier League (IPL) to pick up players and I am satisfied that I managed to get the players which I wanted in my team,” Bansal told the media at the SCA stadium in Khandheri here.

“We wanted to make a balanced team with experience and talent and I am happy that we could manage to get the experience and talented cricketers” he said.

“Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Dwayne Bravo and all are great players and have done well for their respective countries and I am happy that these players would play for Gujarat Lions,” he added.

When asked about skipper Raina’s recent poor form, he said, “Every player faces this problem in their career, (Suresh) Raina is a matured cricketer and I don’t think that he would be under pressure for leading a side first time in IPL.

“Every player remains under pressure to perform well and (Suresh) Raina has very good track record. Our focus is to provide a suitable atmosphere to players can perform well” Bansal added.

The Lions will play their first match on April 11 against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali in the IPL. He also said that Gujarat Lions team song would be launched soon and it’s theme is “game mari chhe” (game is mine).

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