Sanju Samson will play with MS Dhoni in Chennai Super Kings in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026). BCCI has made its official announcement, after which Sanju Samson made 2 posts. The first post was about separation from Rajasthan Royals and the second was about joining Chennai Super Kings.

Sanju Samson has joined Chennai Super Kings from Rajasthan Royals through a trade deal before the auction. His salary in CSK is only Rs 18 crore, which was also in Rajasthan Royals in the last edition. Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran, who were included in CSK, have been traded to Rajasthan Royals.

Sanju Samson’s first reaction on joining CSK

Sanju Samson posted a post on social media, in which he is resting on the beach. He is wearing a yellow colored hand band (which is also the color of CSK). In the caption, she wrote, “Vanakkam” and shared a yellow heart. Let us tell you that Vanakkam is a Tamil word, which means Hello in Hindi.

Earlier, while sharing a post with Rajasthan Royals, he wrote, “We are only here for a short time. Gave our all to this franchise, enjoyed great cricket, made some life-long relationships, treated everyone at the franchise like my family. And when the time comes, that’s when I move on. I will be forever grateful for everything.”

CSK will be Sanju Samson’s third IPL team

Sanju Samson started his IPL career by playing with Rajasthan Royals, he stayed in Rajasthan from 2013 to 2015. Samson played for Delhi Capitals in 2016 and 2017, he returned to Rajasthan in 2018. He has played 177 matches in IPL, in which he has 4704 runs in his name. Samson has 3 centuries and 26 half-centuries in IPL.

Sanju Samson Batting Order In Australia Tour: The Indian team is going to tour Australia from 19th October. Here 3 ODI and 5 T20 matches will be played between India and Australia. Sanju Samson has been included in the T20 squad under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav. Sanju was part of the team in Asia Cup 2025. Runs were also seen from Sanju’s bat in the Asia Cup. Sanju Samson was also chosen Player of the Match in the match played against Oman in the Asia Cup. Many changes were seen in Sanju’s batting order in the Asia Cup. Sanju has given a clear message to head coach Gautam Gambhir regarding his batting order in Team India.

Samson gave message to Gambhir

This time Asia Cup 2025 was played in T20 format. Shubhman Gill was out of the Indian T20 team for a long time, then Sanju Samson was opening for the team, but as soon as Gill returned, Sanju was brought into the middle order and Shubhman Gill became the opening batsman along with Abhishek Sharma. There were several changes in Sanju Samson’s batting order in the Asia Cup.

Sanju Samson said at the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards that even if you ask me to bat at number 9 or ask me to bowl left-arm-spin or I am given any role for the country, I do not feel bad about it.

divert attention from outside noise

Sanju Samson further said that I have completed 10 years in international cricket and I have played only 40 matches in these 10 years. To be honest, these numbers alone don’t tell the whole story, but I am proud of the person I have become today. I am also proud of the challenges I have gone through. Now I have started focusing on my inner noise instead of the outside noise.

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Sanju samson century before asia cup 2025: Sanju Samson has been selected in the Indian team for the Asia Cup 2025. The health of this player was very bad recently, due to which Samson also had to be admitted to the hospital. But the passion of cricket fixed him quickly. Sanju is currently playing Kerala Cricket League. In the second match of this league, Sanju Samson has scored a strong century with fours and sixes. Samson hit a century in only 40 balls.

Sanju Samson’s bang century

Sanju Samson came out to bat fast from the beginning. Samson achieved the rhythm as soon as he came to the ground. This dhakad batsman completed his half -century in only 16 balls. At the same time, Samson faced in just 40 balls to reach a century. In hitting this century, Samson hit 13 fours and 5 sixes. Samson scored 121 runs in 51 balls at a strike rate of 237.25 in this match, including 14 fours and 7 sixes.

A of power

Sanju samson, that was ruthless.#Kclseason2 #KCL2025 pic.twitter.com/pkdx75vf5r

– Kerala Cricket League (@KCL_T20) August 24, 2025

Samson’s team won the match

The 8th match of KCL 2025 was played between Kochi Blue Tigers and Aries Kollam Seller. Kollam’s team batting first scored 236 runs in 20 overs. At the same time, Kochi’s team achieved this goal due to Samson’s batting. Another Kochi batsman Muhammad Aashiq finally won the team by scoring 45 runs in 18 balls.

Sanju Samson was hospitalized

In the first match of the Kerala Cricket League, Sanju reached the stadium directly after discharging the hospital, but he was not given batting in the first match. At the same time, this player won the hearts of all the fans by run out of the player of the opposition player with one throw. Now when Sanju Samson came out to bat in the second match, he scored a brilliant century.

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