Sanju Samson is excited to take CSK in its team (Photo- PTI)
The fan following of the Indian team’s brilliant wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson is very high in the whole world. Sanju Samson has left his mark in international cricket as well as the Indian Premier League. From the last few IPL season, Sanju Samson is participating for Rajasthan Royals, but now in IPL 2026, he is expected to see a new team playing for a new team. Chennai Super Kings can include Sanju Samson in her team and the senior officer of the franchise himself has confirmed this. There are reports that Sanju can also become the next captain of Chennai.
Revealed about Sanju Samson
A senior CSK official told Cricbuj, ‘We are definitely looking at Sanju Samson. He is an Indian wicketkeeper-batsman who can handle the responsibility of opening along with wicketkeeping. If Sanju is available, we will definitely want to include him in our team. Who will trade with them, we have not decided yet because the matter has not gone as far as. But we want to include them in our team.
Sanju Samson’s performance was not so good in IPL 2025 and Rajasthan Royals team also could not make its place in the playoffs. Sanju scored just 285 runs in 9 matches in IPL 2025 at an average of 35.63, which included a half -century. His highest personal score was 66 runs. Talking about Chennai Super Kings, the team was at the bottom of this season of IPL.
Sanju can be important players for CSK
Sanju Samson has a lot of experience of playing in the IPL. He has scored 4704 runs in 177 matches in the IPL at a strike rate of 139.05. He also has three centuries in his name. Sanju Samson can handle the team’s command along with wicketkeeping and batting. He got Rajasthan Royals a place in the final of IPL 2022 under his captaincy. Chennai Super Kings performed very poorly in the last season under the captaincy of Rituraj Gaikwad.
Not only this, due to injury, he had to leave the team in the middle season, after which the captaincy of Chennai was once again taken by Mahendra Singh Dhoni. However, his captaincy was also very poor. If Chennai Super Kings include Sanju Samson in his team, then he can prove to be very effective for him. This is also because he can handle the responsibility of opening as well as wicketkeeping.
