“India’s Loss”: After Champions Trophy Snub, Gautam Gambhir’s Previous Comment On Sanju Samson Resurfaces | Cricket Information
India’s squad for the upcoming ODIs towards England and the Champions Trophy 2025 had been introduced on Saturday and a number of the alternatives left everybody shocked. Batter Shubman Gill was named as skipper Rohit Sharma’s deputy within the sequence over all-rounder Hardik Pandya. Other than this, one other huge shock got here within the type of Sanju Samson’s exclusion from the squad. Regardless of giving breakthrough performances in each ODI and T20I cricket in 2024, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul had been chosen over Samson as India’s wicketkeeping choices for the event.
Samson hammered three centuries in 5 T20Is he performed in 2024. In his final ODI look for India, which got here towards South Africa in December 2023, he scored 108 runs.
Regardless of these stats, he has been snubbed from India’s ODI squads whereas he has discovered a spot within the five-match T20I sequence towards England.
Samson’s place within the Indian staff has at all times been an inconsistent one. Nonetheless, the wicketkeeper-batter has at all times discovered assist from India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir. Amid his exclusion from the ODIs, Gambhir’s previous comment on Samson resurfaced on the web.
In an previous interplay with ESPNCricinfo in 2020, Gambhir backed Samson for a place within the Indian staff. “You already know what, if Sanju Samson isn’t going to play for India, it isn’t Sanju Samson’s loss. It’s truly India’s loss, and I hope Sanju Samson is backed the identical method Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been backed. You might be dropping out on a expertise which in all probability be the No.1 batter sooner or later,” Gambhir had advised ESPNCricinfo.
Gautam Gambhir was criticising selectors, Coach, Captain and many others earlier than for not choosing Sanju Samson
He’s Head coach now however nonetheless Sanju isn’t chosen. Does he discuss it now!? #ChampionsTrophy
— Veena Jain (@DrJain21) January 18, 2025
“Sadly, we’ve not backed him until now. Individuals sitting in these huge rooms, the choice committee ought to be scratching their hair ‘Why wasn’t Sanju Samson a part of the T20 staff or the final World Cup?’,” he added.
In line with a report by Dainik Jagran, Gambhir as soon as once more backed Samson for a spot within the ODIs and the Champions Trophy however Rohit and chief selector Ajit Agarkar opted for Pant and Rahul.
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