IND vs ENG: Why does Sanju Samson become a ‘soft target’, Sanjay Manjrekar called his exclusion from the playing XI a ‘strange incident’

New Delhi. The Indian team has reached Robin-Hood’s city of Nottingham for the third T20 with many important questions. More than the discussion about Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s debut in Manchester, there was even more discussion about Sanju being made a scapegoat. Excluding Sanju, who has become a soft target of Team India, from the playing XI was not acceptable to many cricket experts, one of them is Sanjay Manjrekar, who is commenting in this series.

Former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar believes India’s decision to drop Sanju Samson in the second T20 against England was a “strange” move, even though it was “fantastic” to see young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi finally make his debut. The 15-year-old scored 14 runs in 10 balls and became the youngest Indian to debut in international cricket, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar, who was 16 when he first played for India in 1989.

Sanjay’s questions about Sanju

Manjrekar said that there was no need to drop Samson for Suryavanshi, as both could be accommodated. It was great to see the splendor in the colors of India. But what about Samson? thrown out? Are you kidding! No, I think, hurt. Hopefully it’s an injury. Or is this the strangest choice.” “If you wanted to include Vaibhav, you could have easily batted at No. 3,” Manjrekar posted on X, hinting that changes could have been made in the lower order to play both.

Samson is a soft target

India lost the match by four wickets on Saturday and trailed the five-match series 0-1 after the first match was washed out due to rain. Suryavanshi’s debut came in place of T20 World Cup hero Samson, as he was not performing well on the current tour. The 32-year-old Samson was named the player of the T20 World Cup after he scored two consecutive 89-run innings in the semi-finals and final. On the other hand, Suryavanshi had performed brilliantly in the IPL by scoring runs at a strike rate of more than 230.