It still remains a big question as to which team Sanju Samson will play for in IPL 2026. According to media reports, the deal regarding Samson’s trade was almost finalized between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Speculations about Ravindra Jadeja being traded to Rajasthan Royals in place of Samson had gained momentum recently. Now the news is that RR management is not happy with trading just one player in place of Samson.

According to a report published in Cricbuzz, Sanju Samson and Ravindra Jadeja were retained by Rajasthan and Chennai respectively last season in the Rs 18 crore slot. The deal should have been finalized by now, but Rajasthan Royals management is not ready to swap players directly. Rajasthan team wants CSK to hand over one more player along with Ravindra Jadeja in exchange of Samson.

Rajasthan management wants to get Ravindra Jadeja and Dewald Brevis in exchange of Sanju Samson. South Africa’s dreaded batsman Brevis had joined Chennai Super Kings only last year. On the other hand, CSK officials only want to trade Jadeja, and as far as trading another player along with Jadeja is concerned, CSK especially does not want to trade Brevis at all.

According to the report, RR franchise officials have also contacted some other teams. These teams are Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants.

Chennai Super Kings is ready to release Ravindra Jadeja, which in itself would be a huge swap. Jadeja is one of the most successful and legendary all-rounders in IPL history. Apart from scoring 3,260 runs in his IPL career, Jadeja has also taken 170 wickets.

On the other hand, Sunrisers Hyderabad has not shown much interest in Sanju Samson, because SRH already has 3 good opening batting options.

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Sanju samson csk trade: IPL 2026 is still a year away, but different kinds of speculations have started from now on. It is reported that Sanju Samson may replace MS Dhoni in Chennai Super Kings next year, which means Samson can leave the Rajasthan Royals team. In fact, these reports caught fire when a post on social media went viral, which reads that Rajasthan Royals can release Sanju Samson before IPL 2026.

The rumor of Sanju Samson leaving the Rajasthan team got more fire when this viral post was liked by the manager of the CSK team. It is worth noting that there is no official confirmation of MS Dhoni’s play in the next season. In such a situation, liking the post coming in Sanju Samson’s CSK by the manager of Chennai Super Kings team was testifying to the truth of these rumors somewhere.

What is the truth?

During the IPL 2025, such claims were revealed that there is a rift between Sanju Samson and Rajasthan Royals Team Management. At the same time, RR team coach Rahul Dravid rejected all these rumors. As far as Sanju Samson is subject to going to Chennai Super Kings, on this, neither CSK has issued any official statement nor Rajasthan team has talked about releasing them. In such a situation, these claims are seen false at the moment.

Sanju Samson has played for 2 teams in his IPL career so far. He scored 677 runs in 28 matches for Delhi Capitals. At the same time, Samson has played 149 matches for the Rajasthan Royals team so far, in which he has 4,027 runs. Samson has so far scored 4,704 runs in 177 IPL matches.

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