Sanju Samson is an Indian international cricketer. He captained Kerala in domestic cricket and captained Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.
Wiki/Biography
Sanju Viswanath Samson was born on 11 November 1994 (28 years old; as of 2022) in Vizhinjampuruvilla, Thiruvananthapuram. His zodiac sign is Scorpio. Samson has been passionate about cricket since he was a child. Sanju spent his childhood in the police housing estate near GTB Nagar in North Delhi. He attended Rose High School in Delhi. Coach Yashpal trains Samson at the DAV School Academy in Shalimar Bagh, West Delhi. Sanju studied in Delhi till 7th grade. At the age of 11, Sanju participated in the Dhruv Pandove TrophyF trials for the Delhi U-13 team. Although his father Viswanath was confident that Sanju would make the cut, Sanju was missing from the list when it appeared on the notice board outside Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium name, they were disappointed. The father and son were surprised to find that boys who seemed to be underperforming actually managed to enter the school. Upset by the unfair treatment, Viswanath consoled his son while eating pizza at home and decided to return to his ancestral home in Vizhinjam on the coast of Thiruvananthapuram. He started training with Ranji coach Biju Varghese (Biju George) at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Stadium.
Sanju Samson and his coach Biju George
In Thiruvananthapuram, he studied at St. Joseph’s High School. Thereafter, he pursued BA in English Literature from Mal Ivanyos College, Thiruvananthapuram. In Kerala, he gained recognition in junior cricket. Former India batsman Sujith Somasundhar noticed Samson’s talent soon after taking over as Kerala coach.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father, Samson Viswanath, is a former Delhi police officer. Viswanath was keen on sports and represented Delhi in the 1994 Santosh Trophy football tournament. Viswanath took voluntary retirement from Delhi Police in 2009 and moved to Kerala with his family. In Kerala, he became a football coach. His mother, Liji Samson, was a housewife. His elder brother Saly Samson is also a cricketer and has played for the Kerala Under-25 cricket team. He also represented Kerala in junior cricket.
Three weeks of Samson and his father
Three weeks of Samson and his mother
Sanju Samson and his brother Saly Samson
wife and children
On December 22, 2018, he married his long-time girlfriend Charu Latha. They met while attending Mar Ivanios Academy and started dating in August 2013.
Three weeks of Samson and his wife
Race
He belonged to a Latin Catholic Malayalam family from Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha diocese.
Profession
youth cause
In 2007, he was selected for the Kerala Under-13 cricket team and started his career as a cricketer. He captained the Kerala team in the 2007-08 KSCA Inter-State Under-13 Championship and was awarded the Player of the Tournament award for scoring 973 points, including four goals in five matches at an average of 108.11. percent. As part of the Kerala U-15 team in the 2008-09 Vijay Merchant Trophy, he scored a double century against Goa, scoring 138 balls. He is also the captain of Kerala at U-16 and U-19 levels. His performance in the Cooch Behar Trophy in 2010-11 earned him a place in the India U-19 team.
Old photo of three-week-old Samson
In 2011, he represented India in the U-19 Asian Cup. However, his poor performance in Malaysia, with 14 points in three games, resulted in him losing his spot in Australia’s U-19 World Cup squad. In June 2013, he was appointed as the vice-captain of the India U-19 team for the 2013 Top End Under-19 series in Australia. He scored two half-centuries in the India U-19 Youth Test series against Sri Lanka in July-August 2013. At the 2013 ACC Under-19 Asian Cup in the UAE, he scored a hundred in the final against Pakistan to help the Indian team defend the title; he was also the vice-captain of the Indian team in this tournament. He was the vice-captain of the Indian U-19 team in the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, where he became the top run-scorer with a highest score of 85 runs from 45 balls against Papua New Guinea.
domestic
In 2009, at the age of 14, Samson became the youngest Kerala cricketer to be selected for the Ranji Trophy. In the same year, he was selected for the Kerala team for the 2009-10 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. On October 16, 2011, Sanju Samson made his domestic T20 debut in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in Chennai, where he represented Kerala against Hyderabad; Kerala won by 3 wickets. On 3 November 2011, he made his debut for Kerala in the Nagpur Ranji Trophy against Vidarbha; the result was a draw.
Sanju Samson poses in Kerala Cricket Team jersey
He made his Group A debut on 23 February 2012 in Bangalore against Andhra Pradesh, winning the Vijay Hazare Trophy; Kerala finished with 3 wickets win. In the first match of the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy, he scored a career-best 211 runs against Assam, scoring his first double century in the tournament. He scored 530 runs in the tournament at an average of 58.88 and became the highest run-scorer from Kerala. At the age of 20, Sanju was appointed as the captain of Kerala for the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy season, becoming the youngest player from Kerala to captain the team in the Ranji Trophy. In 2017, Sanju’s efforts led Kerala to the quarter-finals for the first time in Ranji Trophy history; he was one of the best performers this season.
Sanju Samson vs Saurashtra in Ranji Trophy (2017)
In November 2017, he captained the Chairman’s XI, replacing Naman Ojha for the two-day tour against Sri Lanka due to injury. In 2019, he scored 91 points off 48 balls in the fifth unofficial A-level match between India A and South Africa A and became the man of the match. In the same year, Sanju Samson scored against Goa in the Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A match at Alur, Bengaluru. A score of 212 runs off 129 balls was India’s highest score in Category A domestic cricket. In this match, Sanju and Sachin Baby combined to score 338 runs for the third wicket, which is the highest partnership among all wickets in Group A of Indian Cricket (including ODIs). In 1999, when India faced New Zealand’s Hyderabad team, the pair surpassed Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid’s 331-run stand for the second wicket.
indian premier league
He was selected into the Kolkata Knight Riders squad in 2009 and 2012, but he did not play a game and was released before the 2013 season. In 2013, Rajasthan Royals bought Samson at the IPL auction when he was 18 years old. He scored 339 runs in IPL. He made his debut for Rajasthan on 14 April 2013 against Kings XI Punjab when wicketkeeper Dishant Yagnik failed to recover from injury. recover from. He won the Best Young Cricketer Award in the 2013 IPL season with 206 runs and 6 knockouts in 10 innings. Sanju came into the limelight when he scored 63 runs off 41 balls for Rajasthan Royals while chasing 172 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore. He is the youngest batsman to score 1,000 runs in the IPL. In 2016, Delhi Daredevils signed Sanju after Rajasthan Royals was banned for two years due to illegal betting and match-fixing investigations.
Sanju Samson plays for Delhi Daredevils
He returned to the Rajasthan Royals in the 2018 IPL auction. In 2021, Sanju became the captain of the Rajasthan Royals; under his leadership, the Rajasthan Royals reached the final and finished second. Under his leadership, Rajasthan reached the finals of the 2022 Indian Premier League and finished second.
Sanju Samson captains Rajasthan Royals during Indian Premier League 2022
International
In August 2014, Sanju was selected into India’s 17-man squad and played in 5 ODI matches and a Twenty20 match against England, but he did not make it to the top 11 in any game. He made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe in Harare on 19 July 2015 during India’s 2015 tour of Zimbabwe; Zimbabwe won by 10 runs. Four years later, he was recalled to the Indian team for the three-match T20I series against Bangladesh, but he was on the bench for the entire series.
Sanju Samson plays for India
He made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo on 23 July 2021 during India’s tour of Sri Lanka 2021; Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets. In June 2022, he was named in India’s squad for the T20I series against Ireland. In the second match of the T20I series, he scored his first half-century with a score of 77 runs off 42 balls. In this match, Deepak Hooda and Sanju Samson had the ninth-highest wicket-taking partnership in all Men’s T20Is, and the second-highest wicket-taking partnership in all Men’s T20Is, as well India has the highest wicket-taking partnership of any in men’s T20Is.
others
Sanju was appointed as the manager of Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Thiruvananthapuram. In 2018, he established a sports academy called Six Gun Sports Academy in Thiruvananthapuram for cricket and football training.
Favorites
- Cricketer: Shane Watson, AB de Villiers
- Food: Tapioca and fish curry
- Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Facts/Trivia
- Sanju Samson is a right-handed batsman and his fielding position is wicketkeeper.
- He is Mercely’s Health Ambassador
- In 2016, Samson was issued a show-cause notice by the KCA for alleged disciplinary misconduct during the Ranji Trophy. The KCA appointed a four-member committee to investigate the allegations. He was absent from Kerala’s match against Tripura in Cuttack due to disciplinary reasons. KCA secretary TN Ananthanarayanan revealed that Samson misbehaved on several occasions, such as leaving the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai during the match against Goa without informing the team management. Another time, Samson broke his bat in the locker room after getting 0 out in the second inning.
- He was one of eight players fined by the Kerala Cricket Association in August 2018 for dissent against Kerala captain Sachin Baby.
- He has endorsed various brands including BharatPe, Myfab11, Baseline Ventures, Club Mahindra, Haeal and Gillette.
- His jersey number for the Indian team is #14.
- Rohit Sharma’s dismissal in 2023 sparked controversy on social media as many believed it was Sanju Samson’s gloves that caused the bat to come off, while It wasn’t the ball that hit the stumps. However, the IPL’s Twitter account put an end to the controversy by posting a video clip showing the catch from multiple angles, proving that the ball did hit the crossbar and that it was a legal dismissal.
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