Asia Cup 2025: Sanju Samson, Shubman Gill in Squad | Big Opening Dilemma for India

Both Sanju Samson and Shubman Gill have been included in Team India's squad for Asia Cup 2025. This time the tournament will be played in T20 format and after a long time Shubman Gill has returned to India's T20 team. After Gill's return, the biggest tension for captain Suryakumar Yadav is who will open for India in the Asia Cup. It is believed that Gill can be seen opening with Abhishek Sharma in the Asia Cup. At the same time, considering the form Samson is in in the Kerala Cricket League, he cannot be ignored either.

Sanju Samson scored 83 runs in the match against Alleppey Ripples

Sanju Samson is currently playing in the Kerala Cricket League. Samson is batting brilliantly in this league. He has scored 50+ consecutive scores in the last 4 matches. Kochi Blue Tigers played their last match against Alleppey Ripples, in this match too Sanju Samson scored a half-century while batting in a stormy style. In this match, Samson played a stormy innings of 83 runs in 41 balls. During this, he hit 2 fours and 9 sixes. His strike rate was 202.44. Due to his innings, Kochi team achieved the target of 177 runs in 18.2 overs.

Alleppey Ripples' middle-order batsmen could not do anything special

In this match, Alleppey Ripples batted first and scored 176 runs for the loss of 6 wickets after batting for 20 overs. Azharuddin and Jalaj Saxena played innings of 64 and 71 runs for the team. Apart from these, Abhishek Nair contributed 24 runs. Apart from these three, no batsman of Ripples could touch the double digit mark. KM Asif took the maximum of 3 wickets from Kochi.

Sanju Samson is batting brilliantly in Kerala Cricket League

Samson has scored 368 runs in 5 innings at a strike rate of 186.80 in this season of Kerala Cricket League. He has scored 4 consecutive fifty plus scores. Before his 83 run innings against Alleppey, he has played innings of 121, 89 and 62 runs. He would now like to maintain the same form in the Asia Cup as well. Now it remains to be seen at which number Samson gets a chance to bat in the Asia Cup.