Kerala’s wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson played a brilliant century against Jharkhand. This was Sanju’s first match in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 edition, in which he completed his century in 90 balls. With this innings, Sanju has presented a strong claim for the ODI series against New Zealand. Let us tell you that till the time of writing the news, BCCI has not announced the team for the ODI series.

India vs New Zealand, 3 match ODI series will start from January 11. BCCI is going to announce the team soon, the names of Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul are coming out as 2 wicketkeepers. However, in the ongoing edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy, Sanju Samson has also staked his claim by scoring a century in his very first match.

Kumar Kushagra played explosive innings

In this match of the fifth round played in Ahmedabad, Jharkhand captain Ishan Kishan had decided to bat first. Kumar Kushagra scored the most runs for Jharkhand, he played an unbeaten inning of 143 runs. In this century innings played in 137 balls, Kushagra hit 7 sixes and 8 fours. Anukul Roy scored 72 runs. Batting first, Jharkhand had set a target of 312 runs for Kerala.

Sanju Samson made a partnership of 212 runs with the captain.

While chasing the target, Sanju Samson and Rohan Kunnummal gave a great start to Kerala, both of them made a partnership of 212 runs for the first wicket. Rohan scored 124 runs in 78 balls, in this innings he hit 11 sixes and 8 fours.

Sanju Samson completed his century in 90 balls, he scored 101 runs in 95 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 9 fours.

sanju samson career

Wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson has played 16 ODI matches for India, in which he scored 510 runs at a strike rate of 99.60. He has scored 1 century and 3 half-centuries in ODIs. Sanju played his last international ODI match in December 2023.

Apart from this, Sanju Samson scored 1032 runs in 52 T20 matches, in this shorter format he scored 3 centuries and 3 half-centuries.

New Zealand all-rounder Doug Bracewell has retired from all forms of cricket. Bracewell represented the New Zealand team in 69 international cricket matches, in which he took 120 wickets and scored a total of 915 runs in batting. Bracewell played his last international match against Sri Lanka.

Doug Bracewell recently suffered a rib injury, after which he had to say goodbye to the game of cricket. New Zealand Cricket Board has also officially confirmed Bracewell’s retirement on social media platform X.

Confirming Doug Bracewell’s retirement, the New Zealand Cricket Board wrote, “All-rounder Doug Bracewell has retired from all forms of cricket. Bracewell played 28 Tests, 21 ODI and 20 T20 matches for New Zealand, in which he scored 120 wickets and 915 runs. He played an important role in New Zealand’s last Test victory over Australia in Obert. He took 6 wickets for 40 runs in the second innings. Gave us a memorable win by 7 runs, Doug, congratulations on a great career.

Doug Bracewell said on his retirement that playing cricket for New Zealand was his greatest pride. In his first-class career, he took 422 wickets in 137 matches. In his long first-class career, he also scored 4,505 runs including 3 centuries and 24 half-centuries.

Let us tell you that India vs New Zealand ODI series is going to start in a few days. India vs New Zealand ODI series will start from January 11. Doug Bracewell took a total of 5 wickets in 4 ODI and 2 Test matches against India.

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Century against South Africa, now Yashasvi Jaiswal will be out of New Zealand ODI series! The reason is shocking

Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored a century in India’s last ODI match, for which he also received the Player of the Match award. Despite this, he may be out of the ODI team against New Zealand. India vs New Zealand 3 match ODI series will start from January 11, for which the team has not been announced yet.

Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored a century in the third ODI against South Africa played in Visakhapatnam. He scored 116 runs in 121 balls, in which he hit 2 sixes and 12 fours. Then why is it difficult for him to get a place in the next series? The reason behind this is Shubman Gill!

Gill’s return makes Jaiswal’s place difficult

Shubman Gill was injured in the Test series against South Africa, after which he had to be ruled out of the entire ODI series. He made a comeback from the T20 series, although his performance in it was not good. Gill is not a part of the T20 World Cup and the T20 series against New Zealand, but the ODI captain will return from the ODI series against New Zealand.

Shubman Gill starts the innings with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli comes at number three. In such a situation, replacing Yashasvi Jaiswal will be difficult. Jaiswal has scored 171 runs in 4 ODI matches played for India, which includes a century.

26-year-old Gill was appointed Test and ODI captain by BCCI this year. Gill has scored 2818 runs for India in 58 ODI matches with a strike rate of 99.22. He has scored 8 centuries and 15 half-centuries in ODIs.

Gill and Jaiswal as openers

Shubhman Gill has scored 2552 runs in 53 ODI matches for India as an opener, in which there are 7 centuries and 14 half-centuries. His highest score is 208 runs.

Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored 171 runs in 4 ODI matches played for India as an opener. In the last match, he played his biggest ODI innings, he scored an unbeaten 116 runs.

India’s probable squad against NZ

Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer (vice-captain), KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.