Sanju Samson
Kkr vs rr: The sixth match will be played today (26 March) in IPL 2025. Rajasthan Royals (RR) will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in this match to be played in Guwahati. Sanju Samson, who played as a batsman in the first match for Rajasthan in IPL 2025, will not take over the responsibility of the team captain even today. Ryan will take command of the Parag team in his place. Actually, Sanju played as an impact player in the last match against SRH. In that match, he scored a brilliant 66 runs off 37 balls, but could not win his team. Now in the second consecutive match, he will be seen in the role of a specialist batsman.
In the match against Kolkata Knight Riders, Sanju Samson will try to play a big innings with the bat like the first match. During this time he will have a chance to achieve a special achievement, from which he is just 15 runs away. If Sanju is successful in scoring 15 runs in Guwahati, he will complete his 4500 runs in IPL. He will be the 14th batsman to do so. The 13 batsmen who have scored 4500 or more runs so far are 9 Indian players.
Sanju’s record in IPL great
In the IPL, Sanju has scored 4485 runs in 164 innings of 169 matches. This includes 3 centuries and 26 half -centuries. His average is 30.93 and the strike rate is 139.41. He has been the most important player for Rajasthan for the last decade. Indian wicketkeeper-batsman is the highest run-scorer for Rajasthan against Kolkata. He has scored 400 runs at an average of 28.57 and a strike rate of 121.58.
Significantly, 30-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman has been playing in IPL since 2013. He joined Delhi Capitals after playing for the first 3 seasons Rajasthan Royals. After spending 2 seasons in Delhi, he returned to Rajasthan in the year 2018 and since then he is part of this team. However, his dream of becoming champions has not been fulfilled so far.
Rajasthan Royals team: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (Captain), Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Ryan Parag, Shimron Hetmire, Sandeep Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, Nitish Rana, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Vanindu Hasranga, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Fazal Farauki, Jofra Karthikay, Jofra Karthikya, Kurana Mafa TITIC, Tushar Deshpande, Yudhveer Singh.
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