The tour of South Africa has been great for Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson. In this tour, he scored 2 brilliant centuries in 4 T20I matches and played a vital role in India winning the series 3-1. Sanju has scored 3 centuries in the last 5 innings. This shows how dangerous the three-week pattern is. To capitalize on this stellar performance, Sanju Samson was named captain of Kerala. Sanju will lead Kerala in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tournament will be held from November 23 to December 15. He recently played in the Ranji Trophy under the captaincy of Sachin Baby. The Indian team does not need to play any limited-overs matches until January, allowing Samson to feature for his team throughout the Syed Mushtaq Ali Tournament. The Indian Test team is currently on tour of Australia for the five-match Border-Gavaskar series.
Sanju scores a lot.
Talking about Samson, the wicketkeeper-batsman has scored three centuries in the last five T20I games. He scored two centuries in a row against Bangladesh and South Africa before ending the tour of South Africa with a century. He scored a century in the third and final T20I against Bangladesh and then created new history by scoring a brilliant century in the first T20I of the South Africa tour. In this way, he became the first Indian to score two consecutive T20I centuries. Although he was dismissed in two consecutive games thereafter, he managed to end the series with a century.
First game versus service
Kerala will begin their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy campaign against Services in Hyderabad on November 23. Kerala is placed in Group E along with Goa, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Services, Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh. Kerala team will play all their matches at Gymkhana Stadium and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.
Kerala team participating in Syed Mushtaq Ali Tournament: Sanju Samson (captain), Sachin Baby, Rohan Kunnumal, Jalaj Saxena, Vishnu Vinod, Mohammed. Azharuddin, Basil Thampi, S Nizar, Abdul Basith, A Scaria, Ajnas EM, Sijoman Joseph, Midhun S, Vysakh Chandran, Vinod Kumar CV, Basil NP, Sharafuddin NM, Nidheesh MD.
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