“Enough Of Mediocrity”: Fans Troll Sanju Samson Mercilessly After Another Failure

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Jatin Khandelwal

 

The T20I series against the West Indies might have been another audition for a few players to make their case for India’s squad for the Asia Cup 2023 as KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer still battle fitness and time.

While Suryakumar Yadav rocked back to form with back-to-back half-centuries in consecutive innings, one of the other contenders, Sanju Samson, failed to impress yet again.

Sanju Samson managed just 13 runs in the 5th T20I against the West Indies in Florida as walls continue to get closer on the Rajasthan Royals skipper’s position in Team India.

Samson finished the T20I series against the West Indies with scores of 12, 7, and 13, further decreasing his average in the shortest format.

After 19 T20I innings now, Sanju Samson averages only 18.5

Sanju Samson

These are really poor numbers for a batsman of Samson’s class, talent, quality, and experience of facing world-class bowlers in the IPL.

To put Sanju Samson’s T20I career so far in context, he has the third-worst average for an Indian batsman in T20I who has played minimum of 15 innings in the format.

Lowest T20I batting average for India men (min: 15 inns)

8.37 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar
18.15 – Yusuf Pathan
18.50 – Sanju Samson

Sanju Samson’s fans have often hounded the Indian team managements and the BCCI selectors on social media for not providing the Kerala star with enough opportunities. In this series, he got three chances against one of the below-ranked teams, and he failed to make an impact while the likes of Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav made most of their chances in the T20I series.

This inevitably led to a spate of trolling and criticism of Sanju Samson on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/anubhav__tweets/status/1690754833572392960?s=20

Meanwhile, SKY’s brilliant half-century – off 38 balls, which was his slowest fifty in T20Is, further highlighting that it wasn’t easy to bat on this pitch today – helped India to a total of 165/9. The series is levelled 2-2 and this is the decider game.

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