Cricket
Former Indian player Sanjay Manjrekar slammed Team India's management's decisions just before the start of the T20 World Cup. He said that the way the management treated Sanju Samson was very poor, and it simply didn't make any sense to him.
Manjrekar believed that the way Sanju was treated was really bad, and pushing him down the order in batting and not even picking him up in the playing XI for some matches was really bizarre.
“With Sanju Samson, I think there were serious blunders committed. One is when Sanju Samson seemed to have come of age and recently got three T20 international hundreds in five innings against teams like South Africa. He was actually dropped down the order a few matches later, just after four or five innings, because Shubman Gill in England had a tremendous Test series," he said.
"It just warped logic that because Shubman Gill played so well in Test cricket, he was reinstated, he was recalled to the Indian T20 team, and what’s worse, Sanju Samson, who was at the top of the order, was pushed down the order to make way for Shubman Gill," Sanjay Manjrekar said on Instagram.
“Sanju Samson lost a bit of rhythm in the Asia Cup. He was batting down the order, maybe playing one inning [actually four innings, scoring 132 runs while Gill managed 127 in seven innings] and became dispensable and eventually lost his place in the playing XI," he added.
One's missed opportunity became Sanju's new hope. He grasped the opportunity that he got, and he made full use of it. From being dropped out of the playing XI at the start of the tournament to being the most valuable player at the end of it, his journey is a once-in-a-generation comeback story.