On Sunday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the T20I squad for the upcoming five-match series in New Zealand starting January 24.
Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami, who were given rest in the recently concluded T20I series against Sri Lanka, returned into the squad. However, the selectors dropped Sanju Samson, and that fumed cricket fans.
Samson played the third T20I against Sri Lanka in Pune, where he could only score six runs in two balls. The wicket-keeper batsman played his career’s second T20I game after a gap of four years. Now, when BCCI came up with his exclusion from the squad, it obviously rattled cricket lovers, and they expressed the anger towards the selectors as well as captain Virat Kohli on Twitter.
Here’s how Twitterati reacted:
First T20 in July 2015 , second T20 in January 2020 will it be another long wait before sanju samson plays his third T20 ?
What say @IamSanjuSamson , @BCCI @imVkohli 🤷— Rahul Jain (@realrahuljain) January 13, 2020
Sanju Samson again dropped..shame on you guys… He is talented young batsman, why u didn't give chance like Rishab pant????
— Lokesh Kumar (@loki_lokesh_94) January 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/Im_prasly19/status/1216581385210732545
No matter how he performs, Rishabh Pant is our first choice wicketkeeper, we've asked Sanju Samson to wait for another 5 years to get a T20I – MSK Prasad#INDvAUS #NZvIND pic.twitter.com/IPzrK5yORv
— Abhijeet ♞ (@TheYorkerBall) January 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/kataraanurag/status/1216579605802385414
https://twitter.com/SharukhMSD_/status/1216577068244164609
Hope this is last chance for Pant and Sanju Samson gets selected for World cup
— Karteek Joshi (@karteekjoshi) January 13, 2020
Why sanju Samson not including this t20 squad.sanju is better than rishabh🤔 https://t.co/idM7R0HdXo
— Rajib Bahira (@bahira_rajib) January 13, 2020
