Sanju Samson’s father has accused Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni, and Rahul Dravid of sabotaging his son’s career by failing to provide him with consistent international opportunities. For the uninitiated, Samson is now in South Africa, playing in a four-match T20I series and has already hit a century in the first game before grabbing a duck in the second.
Samson is noted for his modest demeanor and personality. He typically avoids controversy, but his father’s words have gone viral on social media. His father, Samson Vishwanath, has accused perhaps the biggest players in Indian cricket history of absolutely destroying Sanju’s career.
“There are 3-4 people who wasted 10 years of my son’s vital career…captains like Dhoni ji, Virat [Kohli] ji, Rohit [Sharma] ji and coach [Rahul] Dravid ji. These four people destroyed 10 years of my son’s life but the more they hurt him, the stronger Sanju came out of the crisis,” he said while speaking to Kerala-based Malayalam news outlet Media One.
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Samson Vishwanath also came down heavily at former India cricketer Kris Srikkanth alleging that he never spoke good things about his son despite doing well. According to Sanju’s father, Srikkanth ridiculed Samson’s maiden T20I century against Bangladesh.
“What hurt me really bad was comments from [Kris Srikkanth], the player from Tamil Nadu. I don’t know what he has played. To this day, that individual has not spoken a good word of encouragement about my son, but has hurt him a lot with his words.
“He said – ‘against whom did Sanju score a century? It was only Bangladesh,’. People have been saying he [Srikkanth] was a great player but I haven’t seen it. Century is a century, and that guy has scored only 26 runs against Bangladesh. Sanju has scored a hundred and he is a player with a classical touch like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. At least respect that,” Samson’s father added.
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Source: India TV News
