Despite making his debut way back in 2014, Sanju Samson got limited opportunities and his father is now blaming senior cricketers for it. In a recent video that is going viral on social space, you can see Samson’s father blaming three senior cricketers for ruining his son’s career. But then, he goes on to thank head coach Gautam Gambhir and Suryakumar Yadav for reviving it. 

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‘These four people destroyed 10 years’

“There are 3-4 people who wasted 10 years of my son’s vital career…captains like Dhoni ji, Virat [Kohli] ji, Rohit [Sharma] ji and coach [Rahul] Dravid ji. These four people destroyed 10 years of my son’s life but the more they hurt him, the stronger Sanju came out of the crisis.”

“What hurt me really bad was comments from [Kris Srikkanth], the player from Tamil Nadu. I don’t know what he has played. To this day, that individual has not spoken a good word of encouragement about my son, but has hurt him a lot with his words.” he said.

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‘Against whom did Sanju score a century?’

“He said – ‘against whom did Sanju score a century? It was only Bangladesh ,’. People have been saying he [Srikkanth] was a great player but I haven’t seen it. Century is a century, and that guy has scored only 26 runs against Bangladesh. Sanju has scored a hundred and he is a player with a classical touch like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. At least respect that!” he said during the interview.

Samson’s Recent Form

Samson has been in terrific form lately in T20Is. He hit a century against Bangladesh and then in the first game in South Africa – he hit another one while opening the batting for the side. With two consecutive T20I centuries to his name, he became the first Indian to do so.