KCA directors' ego is destroying Sanju Samson's cricket profession: Shashi Tharoor | CricTracker

The Indian crew lately introduced their squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025. With a star-studded lineup, followers couldn’t assist however discover the lacking identify of star batter Sanju Samson. Seeing his exclusion, Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, took centre stage and slammed the Kerala Cricket Affiliation.

Tharoor blamed the board’s resolution to drop Samson from the Vijay Hazare Trophy squad as the rationale why he did not make it to the Champions Trophy squad.

“The sorry saga of the Kerala Cricket Affiliation and Sanju Samson — the participant wrote to KCA, prematurely, regretting his incapacity to attend a coaching camp between the SMA and the Vijay Hazare Trophy tournaments, and was promptly dropped from the squad — has now resulted in Sanju’s exclusion from the Indian crew,” Tharoor tweeted.

“A batter who has a highest rating of 212* within the Hazare, who averages 56.66 in ODIs for India (together with a century in his final outing, in opposition to South Africa) is having his profession destroyed by the egos of cricket directors. Does not it hassle the KCA bosses that by leaving Sanju out, they ensured Kerala did not even attain the quarter-finals of the Hazare? The place does this depart him?” he added.

It’s price noting that Samson was part of Kerala’s squad within the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 however opted out of the preparatory camp for the home 50-over event. He did inform the KCA that he can be out there, however he was ignored by the board. 

The star batter final performed an ODI in December 2023. The Indian crew didn’t play many ODIs in 2024, however he has been in distinctive kind within the shortest format.

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