The buzz around Sanju Samson is all over the internet yet again. Chennai Super Kings can’t help but welcome their newest member for the upcoming IPL edition. The batsman who has secured three centuries for the Indian team in the T20I format now makes his way to the five time
After the trade deal was confirmed, Samson has now slowly started to adapt with his new team. Chennai Super Kings also know well what could be the right time to do things, as they recently uploaded another video related to Samson. In this video, the team did a jersey reveal of Sanju Samson, in yellow.
1. Samson’s Jersey Number
Since Sanju Samson has been a part of Chennai Super Kings, fans wanted to see how he would look in the yellow jersey. And it seems that the Chennai Super Kings had listened to what the players actually wanted. The team posted a video on their social media handles, with
The unveiling of Samson in his new jersey was tremendous, and fans filled the comments section with love. Even for his new IPL team, Sanju Samson will be continuing with the same jersey number as he had in Rajasthan Royals. Thus, his jersey number remains 11 even after changing teams, which shows that the player is the same, only the teams have changed.
2. Samson Jadeja Trade Deal
A deal which changed the scenario of IPL 2026 was the deal involving Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. For those who do not know, Sanju Samson reportedly wanted to leave Rajasthan Royals. Fans even saw a rift between Samson and the team management on television, when Dravid was having a team discussion but Samson
After the IPL 2025 edition came to an end, Chennai Super Kings showed an interest in Sanju Samson. They wanted a player who could keep the wickets, even lead the side if needed, and bat in the top order. All of these qualities were met by Sanju Samson, which put him under the radar of
Then both teams started to have meetings about the trade deal. Rajasthan knew that Samson was a must needed asset for Chennai Super Kings. So, they utilised this opportunity well, and asked for two players in return for
And out of these two, one was Ravindra Jadeja.
Even after spending so many years for the team, it came down to Jadeja being left out by the team. He was traded to Rajasthan Royals along with another all-rounder, Sam Curran. Ravindra Jadeja has also marked a comeback to his former IPL team, where he used to play even before making his international debut.
As a result, Chennai Super Kings got Sanju Samson for 18 Crores. And in return, they gave Rajasthan Ravindra Jadeja for 14 crores and Sam Curran for just 2.40 crores. The remaining amount in this trade deal must have been dealt with the cash, making it a beneficial deal for both Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings.
3. RR Speaks on Samson’s Trade
Rajasthan Royals owner Manoj Badale
why the team let Sanju Samson go off for a trade deal. He said, “Look, he sort of made indications towards the end of the [IPL 2025] season that he was emotionally . A friend of mine always says to me, you’ve got three types of capital in your life: you have physical capital, you have intellectual capital, and you have emotional capital. And the way I describe what Sanju said to me – he didn’t necessarily use these words – is he was drained of the emotional capital that he had put into RR.
He continued by saying,”So when he says, ‘Sir, I want to move on, I’m emotionally drained; I almost care too much and I feel like I need a fresh chapter’, when he asks that, you have to listen. I was really clear with him that we would cooperate and try to seek an alternative chapter for him, but we would only do it if it was a player trade and we would only do it if our view was that the trade made the franchise stronger. And to be fair to him, he respected that. He agreed with that and he abided by that.”