Sanju Samson Wife, Family, Age, Stats And Records

In today's article, we are going to talk about a player who has got really impressive records in domestic cricket, which has opened the doors for him in international cricket now, despite the fact, that he has been picked and dropped from the team several times. Yes! We are talking about India's last match-winner Sanju Samson, who saved the Indian team from a horrific defeat against Zimbabwe in the final match of the series at Harare Sports Club when Men in Blue were 3 wickets down on the score of 40 runs in 5 overs. He formed a crucial partnership of 65 runs for the 4th wicket with Riyan Parage, taking the Shubman Gill and Co. on a respectable total of 167 runs. Through this news piece, we will be taking about Sanju Samson's  wife, family, age and unknown records.

Sanju Samson was born on 11 November 1994 into a Malayali Christian family in Pulluvila, a coastal village near Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. It won't be wrong to say that Samson has got sports from his father who was a retired football player who has represented Delhi in Santhosh Trophy before workign as a police constable with Delhi Police. Apart from his father, the wicket-keeper batmsman brother has represented Kerala in Junior cricket.

Talking about Sanju Samson's hardships, he spent his early childhood in the Police residential colony in North Delhi neighbourhood of GTB Nagar and studied at Rosary Senior Secondary School, Delhi, where he trained under coach Yashpal at the academy in DL DAV Model School, Shalimar Bagh. When he didn't make it into the Delhi U-13 team for Dhruv Pandove Trophy, his father took voluntary retirement from the Delhi police force; a year after he retired from football and moved to Kerala, where Samson and his brother continued their cricketing careers in Kerala, he attended Masters Cricket Club in Thiruvananthapuram before changing academies to train under Biju George on Medical College Ground, Thiruvananthapuram.

Samson graduated high school from St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He pursued a B.A. degree in English literature from Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram. Apart from cricket, his childhood aspiration was to become an IPS office.

Domestic Career

Samson entered into the  Ranji Trophy after scoring a double century in 2008-09 Vijay Merchant Trophy . He made his debut at the age of just 14, which was the youngest Kerala cricketer to be selected to play in Ranji Trophy.

After that he was named in the Kerala squad for the 2009–10 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy the same year. He made his first-class debut for the side in the 2011–12 Ranji Trophy on 3 November 2011 against Vidarbha and Twenty20 debut on 16 October 2011 against Hyderabad in the 2011–12 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. 

He scored his maiden first-class century against Himachal Pradesh  in the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy, as he scored 127 runs off 207 balls. He was Kerala's highest run-getter in 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season scoring 530 runs at an average of 58.88. In his first match of the 2013–14 season against Assam he scored a career-best 211 to bring up his first double century in Ranji Trophy.

International Career

Sanju was selected to India's 17-man squad to play in 5 ODIs and a Twenty20 against England.However, he did not make it to the final eleven in any of the matches and remained a backup keeper to MS Dhoni.

In July 2015, he was drafted into the Indian squad against Zimbabwe for an ODI and two T20I matches as an injury replacement for Ambati Rayudu. He made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe at Harare on 19 July 2015. In June 2021, he was named in India's One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squads for their series against Sri Lanka. He made his ODI debut on 23 July 2021 in the dead rubber third ODI playing run-a-ball innings of 46 and ended on the losing side

In June 2022, he was named in India's squad for their T20I series against Ireland. In the second match of the series, he scored his maiden half century in T20I, making 77 runs off 42 balls. His partnership with Deepak Hooda of 176 runs was the highest partnership for the second wicket in men's T20I and the highest partnership for any wicket for India. He scored his maiden hundred in the third ODI of the series scoring 108 off 114 balls which proved to be match winning as India won the series decider by 78 runs. He was adjusted with man of the match award