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SA vs IND: Twitter erupts after Sanju Samson is named in ODI squad against South Africa

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The men’s selection committee met in New Delhi on Thursday to pick the Team India squad for the upcoming all-format tour of South Africa.

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New Delhi: The men’s selection committee met in New Delhi on Thursday to pick the Team India squad for the upcoming all-format tour of South Africa. The Indian team will participate in three T20Is, three ODIs and two Test matches. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also named Sanju Samson in the ODI squad for the upcoming series against Proteas.

The 29-year-old cricketer from Kerala made his ODI debut in July 2021 and played 13 matches in the format, scoring 390 runs at an average of 55.71 and a strike rate of 104.00.

Here are some reactions on ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter) following the inclusion of right-handed batsman Sanju Samson in the ODI Squad.

Recently, Samson had spoken on a podcast that he was considered ‘unlucky’ as a cricketer after being left out of the national team on a few occasions.

“I’m not really interested in that. ‘Aiyyyo, paavam Sanju! The most unlucky cricketer!’ When I hear that, I think: ‘What kind of foolishness is that!’ How am I the unluckiest cricketer? Where I have come now is more than I thought I could achieve.” the Kerala cricketer said in a podcast called I AM with Dhanya Varma.

India’s squad for tests: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.

Indian squad for 3 T20Is: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC), Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav , Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.

Indian squad for 3 ODIs: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sai Sudharsan, Tilak Varma, Rajat Patidar, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (C) (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan , Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar.



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