IPL 2024: Sanju Samson has been having a brilliant season both with the bat and captain for Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals has looked like a near-perfect team in the Indian Premier League 2024 losing just one of the eight games. They are placed comfortably at the top of the table and are expected to qualify for the playoffs with ease. The skipper of the side has looked good in batting and made sharp decision-making captaincy moves in the tournament thus far.
Former Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh would propose Sanju should take over T20I captaincy after Rohit. On his X account(Formerly known as Twitter) the 43-year-old wrote, “@IamSanjuSamson (Sanju Samson) should walks in to the Indian team for T20 worldcup and also groomed as a next T20 captain for india after rohit . koi shak ???”
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s knock is a proof of class is permanent . Form is temporary @ybj_19 and there shouldn’t be any debate about Keepar batsman . @IamSanjuSamson should walks in to the Indian team for T20 worldcup and also groomed as a next T20 captain for india after rohit . koi…
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) April 22, 2024
MP of Lokhsabha Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram constituency would join the conversation and reply to Harbhajan. “Have been arguing for years that Sanju (Sanju Samson) has not had the selectorial breaks he deserved. Now he is the leading Keeper-batsman in the @IPL but is still not discussed when the team is debated. Justice for Sanju!”
Calm under pressure
Former Australian player Aaron Finch too would praise Samson for his captaincy. “I think he’s leading the side unbelievably well, you can see how calm the Rajasthan Royals are when they’re under pressure. And I think that the only game they lost was when they had that meltdown against GT right at the back end of the game, so they’ve been so clinical right throughout this IPL and a lot of credit has to go to Sanju for that,” he said on Star Sports Cricket Live.
In eight games so far Samson has scored 314 runs with the bat at an average of 62.80 and strike rate 152.43.“He’s been playing really mature innings and that’s what is required for the team. I think in times of T20 cricket, the ego of the batsman can get in the way of what the team needs sometimes but he’s been playing each and every situation exactly how it’s needed to be done,”
Source:indianexpress.com