Sanju Samson's father blames former Indian captains for disappointing career

After Indian cricketer Sanju Samson recently shone with his powerful batting, a social media video went viral where his father blamed the former Indian captains for Samson’s disappointing international career.

The 30-year-old Indian cricketer Sanju Samson recently created history by recording T20I centuries in back-to-back innings. After scoring 111 runs against Bangladesh in the Hyderabad T20I, the right-handed batter scored 107 runs against South Africa at Durban. He became the first Indian cricketer to record T20I hundreds in consecutive innings.

After making his international cricket debut in 2015, Samson has played 16 ODIs and 35 T20Is. Although he made his T20I debut during India's tour of Zimbabwe in 2015, he made his ODI debut in 2021. The right-handed batter has scored 701 runs in 35 T20Is with an average of 25.03 and a strike rate of 151.07, including two centuries and two half-centuries.

However, before the Zimbabwe tour last July, Samson had a T20I average of 18.70 by scoring 374 runs in 22 innings, including one half-century.

On the other hand, Samson has scored 510 runs in 16 ODIs with an impressive average of 56.66, including one century and two half-centuries.

There are 3-4 people who wasted 10 years of my son's vital career

In the recent viral video, Samson’s father blamed the former Indian captains MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma (former T20I captain) along with the former Indian head coach Rahul Dravid.

Samson’s father said, "There are 3-4 people who wasted 10 years of my son's vital career captains like Dhoni ji, Virat ji, Rohit ji and coach Dravid ji. These four people destroyed 10 years of my son's life but the more they hurt him, the stronger Sanju came out of the crisis."

I credit my son's century to both of them: Sanju Samson

On the other hand, Samson’s father thanked the present Indian head coach Gautam Gambhir and the T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav. He credited them for Samson’s back-to-back T20I centuries.

He added, "I am very happy, and I want to thank Gautam Gambhir bhai and Suryakumar bhai. If these two people did not come at this time during Sanju's career, they would have dropped him from the team like in the past. So, I credit my son's century to both of them."