Shashi Tharoor Attacked KCA For Sanju Samson: India will start its campaign in the Champion Trophy 2025 on 20 February. For which the Indian team was announced on 18 January. Sanju Samson’s name was not in this list. Whereas in the last series played in November, Samson had scored a century. Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) President Jayesh George had given a statement on Samson’s name not being included in the team. On which Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has made a scathing attack.
Shashi Tharoor launched a scathing attack on KCA
Shashi Tharoor wrote on social media platform X, “This story of KCA and Sanju Samson is very sad. The player had informed about his failure to attend a training camp ahead of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, but he was immediately dropped from the team. Due to this, now he is out of the Indian ODI team also.”
Shashi Tharoor also said that Sanju Samson’s ODI record is excellent. His average is 56.66, in which his last century came against South Africa. Tharoor asked the KCA, “Do they not realize that Kerala could not even reach the quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy because of Samson’s exclusion?”
The sorry saga of the Kerala Cricket Association and Sanju Samson — the player wrote to KCA, in advance, regretting his inability to attend a training camp between the SMA and the Vijay Hazare Trophy tournaments, and was promptly dropped from the squad — has now resulting in…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 18, 2025
What did KCA say about Samson?
Kerala Cricket Association President Jayesh George has revealed that Sanju Samson’s attitude was the reason for his exclusion from the Champions Trophy team. George told that before the team was selected for Vijay Hazare Trophy, Sanju Samson had informed about his unavailability through a message.
Indian team for Champions Trophy
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill (vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja.
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