Gautam Gambhir broke his promise to SamsonImage Credit source: PTI
Sanju Samson Dropped: Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir constantly remains in the headlines due to his decisions. This trend continues on the Australia tour as well, where his decisions regarding the selection of playing-11 in first ODI and then T20 series are raising questions. While it was surprising not to select Arshdeep Singh in the first two matches of the T20 series, in the third match Gambhir dropped the player whom he had promised to play continuously. This player is wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson, who was dropped from the playing-11 of the third T20 match.
Samson out after just one match
In the third match of the series on Sunday 2 November at Hobart Stadium, Team India won the toss and as soon as the playing 11 came out, it surprised. While Arshdeep Singh returned to the team, Sanju Samson was dropped. In place of Samson, second wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma was given a chance in the playing-11. This decision came after Sanju’s failure in the last match, in which he came third and was out after scoring only 2 runs.
Despite this, there was hope that Samson would be given opportunities in the series also, because there were constant changes regarding his batting position in Team India. But when he was dropped in the third match, everyone was surprised and due to this questions started being raised on Gambhir. The Indian coach is being accused of breaking his own promise.
Gambhir broke his own promise
In fact, a few months ago, Samson had revealed in an interview that when he was not able to score big scores, he expressed his problem to coach Gambhir. Samson had told that then Gambhir had assured him that even if he was out on 0 for 21 consecutive times, he would still get a chance in the playing-11.
Samson had said that this one statement had given him a lot of confidence and after that he had a good run. Samson then performed brilliantly in the opening and also scored 3 centuries in T20. But then he was suddenly shifted to the middle order for the Asia Cup because Shubman Gill was included in the opening and this trend has continued since then.
Effect of continuous changes in batting order
On the Australia tour, Sanju Samson has been dropped from the playing-11 after the failure of just one match. Apparently, being sent to bat sometimes at number three, sometimes at number five and sometimes at number six is affecting Samson’s batting. Especially in the middle order, he has not been able to achieve the same success as in the opening. In such a situation, Gambhir is constantly on everyone’s radar as to why Samson’s position was changed first and then why he was dropped after just one match.