A video from the Kerala Cricket League 2026 remaining presentation ceremony that includes Sanju Samson and Sreesanth has sparked widespread dialogue on social media. The footage confirmed Sreesanth making his approach onto the stage and greeting these current with handshakes, however showing to skip Samson. The Kerala wicketkeeper-batter was already standing on the stage alongside the trophy and different officers when the previous India quick bowler arrived.
Samson and Sreesanth didn’t alternate a handshake in the mean time, prompting followers to take a position about whether or not there may very well be a problem between two of Kerala’s most outstanding cricketing figures.
The clip rapidly gained traction on-line, with customers providing their very own theories in regards to the obvious snub. Nonetheless, neither Samson nor Sreesanth has publicly addressed the incident or commented on the hypothesis surrounding the video.
SREESANTH-SAMSON RIFT?
Some followers linked the obvious rigidity between Sanju Samson and Sreesanth to the previous India pacer’s latest remarks in a video interview. Sreesanth had claimed that Samson had not totally acknowledged his contribution in direction of serving to the wicketkeeper-batter safe his first IPL contract with Rajasthan Royals in 2013.
The previous quick bowler stated he had strongly really helpful Samson to then Rajasthan Royals head coach Rahul Dravid. Sreesanth additionally claimed that he had helped prepare flight tickets for Kerala gamers travelling to Jaipur to participate within the franchise’s IPL trials.
“I launched him to Rahul bhai (Dravid) saying this boy has hit me for six sixes in six balls in a neighborhood match. I actually organized for the tickets for everybody (all Kerala cricketers) to fly right down to Rajasthan to satisfy Dravid,” Sreesanth instructed Lallantop.
“However not too long ago throughout an awards ceremony, Sanju stated he received a direct name from Rahul bhai saying ‘you come and be a part of the group’. Nothing like that occurred. Sanju you instructed one model to the Hindi viewers and also you stated one thing else in Malayalam. As of late, all the pieces is on the market on social media.”
Samson had, nevertheless, beforehand acknowledged Sreesanth’s contribution in serving to him safe a contract with Rajasthan Royals.
“Sree bhai is a really beneficiant man. After I was younger, he would take 5-6 gamers for RR trials. I used to be dropped from the Kerala group and Sree bhai was within the Indian group. He had come for an important Ranji Trophy match then. He known as up the Kerala Cricket Affiliation secretary T C Mathew and received me within the Kerala group,” Samson instructed Aakash Chopra in an interview for Jio Hotstar.
“I scored 140 in that match after which Sree bhai took me for the RR trials in Jaipur. When Rahul Sir got here to satisfy, Sree bhai instructed him ‘this man has hit me for lots of runs in native match, he has hit lots of sixes’. He was hyping me so much, I used to be already nervous and I felt extra stress after that.”
Samson is back in the India T20I side for the collection towards Afghanistan, which is able to start on September 13.
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