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Sanju Viswanath Samson (born 11 November 1994), is an Indian cricketer who is the vice-captain of the U-19 cricket team and plays for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He is a wicket-keeper batsman.
He hails from Trivandrum, Kerala and represents the Kerala cricket team in domestic cricket. He is the youngest player to score a half-century in the IPL and Champions League Twenty20. He achieved this on 29 April 2013 in the match between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the age of 18. Samson was adjudged as the "Best Young Player of the Season" in the 2013 IPL through an official poll. He was appointed the Vice-captain of the India U-19 team for the Under-19 Triangular Series in Australia in 2013. He has been included in the Indian squad for the limited overs matches in India tour of England 2014.
Samson was born into a Malayali Christian family on 11 November 1994 in Trivandrum, India to Lijy and Samson Viswanath. His father Samson Viswanath was formerly a police constable in Delhi Police. His father has played a key role in shaping up Sanju's cricket career. Sanju attended Rosary Senior Secondary School, Delhi and graduated high school from St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is pursuing his bachelor of arts degree at Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum.
Sanju Samson signifies the idiom of ‘Age is just a number’. Even as a teenager Samson boasts of facing some of the best attacks in the world during the IPL where he represented the Rajasthan Royals. Rahul Dravid has already labelled him as a talent to watch out for owing to the maturity shown at the international level at such a young age. Samson’s impressive technique with an innate ability to time the ball has created quite a flutter for all the right reasons. Though he always had good numbers to back up representing Kerala in the domestic circuit, it was in the IPL that Samson was noticed as he looked confident batting against the best in the business. He was impressive for India A’s tour of Australia which also got him in the reckoning to represent the national side.
Samson is yet to earn his ODI & Test cap and many feel it could just be round the corner.
Samson is yet to earn his ODI & Test cap and many feel it could just be round the corner.