Sanju Samson

119 articles tagged with "Sanju Samson"

Oct 15, 2026

Shai Hope is the first West Indies batter with three T20I hundreds, and his 102 not out has sent the series to a decider

West Indies beat India by 24 runs in Hyderabad, with Keemo Paul taking five wickets, and the five-match series goes to Bengaluru on Saturday at 2-2.

Oct 10, 2026

Nobody had chased more than 155 in Ranchi, and Shai Hope’s hundred took West Indies past 249

Shai Hope’s unbeaten 102 and Sherfane Rutherford’s 84 carried West Indies to the second-highest chase in men’s T20Is and squared the series.

Sep 22, 2026

MS Dhoni suggested the name, and Zaheer Khan has one year to make CSK a playoff team again

Chennai Super Kings named Zaheer Khan head coach on Monday on a one-year deal covering IPL 2027. The recommendation came from MS Dhoni, who remains on...

Sep 17, 2026

Abhishek Sharma reached his hundred in 30 balls, and the two men above him play for Estonia and Turkey

Abhishek Sharma took 30 balls to a T20I hundred against Afghanistan in Delhi on Thursday, five fewer than Rohit Sharma’s nine-year-old India record an...

Sep 16, 2026

India have won both T20Is by seven wickets, and the dead rubber is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s chance to play at home

Two near-identical seven-wicket wins settled this series early, so Thursday’s final T20I in Delhi is about what India try next. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi h...

Sep 16, 2026

Nitish Reddy took a wicket with the first ball of each of his three overs, and India sealed the series

India beat Afghanistan by seven wickets with 31 balls to spare at the Arun Jaitley Stadium to go 2-0 up with a match left. Reddy’s 3 for 24 and a 22-b...

Sep 13, 2026

Samson was Player of the Tournament at the World Cup, and he is back in India’s XI with the gloves

India dropped the Player of the Tournament from their last T20 World Cup, left him out of two squads, and then picked him again on Sunday as their wic...

Sep 1, 2026

Four of India’s 15 need fitness clearance, and the same squad goes to the Asian Games

India named a 15-man squad for the Afghanistan T20Is on Tuesday, with Jasprit Bumrah one of four players in only if the medical staff clear them. The...

Jul 18, 2026

India turn to youth and a new captain for the Zimbabwe T20Is

India name a young, experimental squad for their three-match T20I tour of Zimbabwe, with Shreyas Iyer taking over as captain, several uncapped players...

Jul 13, 2026

Mohammad Kaif slams India’s ‘confused’ management after the England whitewash

Former India batter Mohammad Kaif has questioned the team’s decision-makers after the 4-0 T20I loss in England, singling out the in-and-out handling o...

Jul 10, 2026

Samson misses out as India name a young T20I squad for the Zimbabwe tour

India left Sanju Samson out and handed maiden call-ups to three uncapped players in the 15-man squad named for this month’s three-match T20I tour of Z...

Jul 2, 2026

Sanju Samson’s slump has reopened India’s most awkward selection call

Three single-figure scores in a row, and a 15-year-old with 776 IPL runs waiting in the same squad. Sanju Samson’s form has handed India a selection q...

May 27, 2026

Gujarat regroup at Mullanpur as Sooryavanshi-fired Rajasthan come for the second IPL 2026 final spot

GT walk in two days after a 92-run Qualifier 1 hammering by RCB; RR walk in two nights after Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s 97 off 29 against SRH. The Mullanp...

May 21, 2026

Zero Dhoni innings and a 89-run mauling: how CSK’s IPL 2026 came apart

Chennai Super Kings finished IPL 2026 with 12 points, an MS Dhoni who never made it to the crease, and a heavy defeat in Ahmedabad that confirmed what...

May 21, 2026

Sandeep Patil names the Kohli-Rohit contradiction nobody else will: ‘It puzzles me’

Former India chief selector Sandeep Patil has called Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s T20I retirements puzzling while both continue to play the format i...

May 20, 2026

Two unbeaten hundreds and still no ODI slot: Sanju Samson’s Afghanistan snub

The CSK wicketkeeper-batter has been left out of India’s ODI squad for the Afghanistan series despite a 170-strike-rate IPL 2026, with Ishan Kishan pi...

May 18, 2026

BCCI source calls the Shreyas Iyer captaincy reports baseless as the Suryakumar Yadav question refuses to go away

A second wave of reports has named Shreyas Iyer as the leading candidate to take over from Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain after IPL 2026. A...

May 18, 2026

Chepauk’s last call: CSK take on SRH with the IPL 2026 playoff door closing

A loss at home to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday night effectively ends Chennai Super Kings’ IPL 2026, with the defending champions sixth and one point...

May 15, 2026

Akash Singh’s three-fer note celebration was theatre, the figures against CSK were the point

Pulled out for his first match of the season, Akash Singh took 3 for 26 against his old CSK side, dismissing Gaikwad, Samson and Urvil Patel and theat...

May 12, 2026

From 0-3 to genuine contenders: how CSK’s quiet rebuild has the IPL 2026 race watching

CSK’s climb from 0-3 to fifth in the IPL 2026 table is not a miracle so much as a slow, slightly boring fix, and the top four should be paying attenti...

May 9, 2026

CSK host LSG at Chepauk as Ruturaj squeezes every point out of the top-four chase

Chennai welcome a bottom-of-the-table Lucknow to MA Chidambaram on Sunday afternoon, but with four matches from the league phase end neither side has...

May 9, 2026

Sanju Samson moves ahead of Shreyas Iyer in race to replace Suryakumar as India’s T20I captain

Fresh reports place Sanju Samson at the front of the BCCI’s thinking to take India’s T20I captaincy from Suryakumar Yadav, with Shreyas Iyer’s strong...

May 6, 2026

Akeal Hosein’s powerplay grip and Noor Ahmad’s middle-overs choke break Delhi at the Jaitley

Sanju Samson’s 87 will headline the scorecards, but the chase was won earlier. Akeal Hosein and Noor Ahmad combined for 3 for 41 in seven overs and tu...

May 5, 2026

Samson’s 87 finishes it: CSK chase down DC at the Jaitley with 15 balls to spare

Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 87 from 52 balls eased Chennai Super Kings to an eight-wicket win over Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, after Noor...