Gautam Gambhir: The Indian team is currently on a tour of Sri Lanka. Where the first match of the 3 T20 match series between Sri Lanka and India (SL vs IND) is being played at the Pallekele ground. In this match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first.

Batting first, Team India got off to a great start. However, in the first match against Sri Lanka, one such player of Team India did not get a chance, who has recently performed very well. Due to which it has been decided that Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir is not going to give this player a chance in future.

Gautam Gambhir did not give a chance to this player

Team India's wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson has not got a chance in the first T20 match being played against Sri Lanka. Rishabh Pant is playing as wicketkeeper batsman in place of Samson.

Let us tell you that Sanju Samson's performance was excellent in the 5-match T20 series played against Zimbabwe. But even after this, head coach Gautam Gambhir has not given Sanju a chance in the playing 11 against Sri Lanka. Sanju Samson considers former Team India wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as his idol.

He scored a half century against Zimbabwe

Recently, Team India went on a tour of Zimbabwe to play a 5-match T20 series. Where Team India won the series 4-1 under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. Sanju Samson was also a part of the team against Zimbabwe.

But he was associated with the team for the last 3 matches. However, Sanju Samson was successful in scoring 70 runs in 2 innings of 3 matches against Zimbabwe. While he played a brilliant innings of 58 runs in the last match of the series. Even after which he has been dropped from the playing 11 against Sri Lanka.

Rishabh Pant in his entire World Cup : 0 Half Centuries

Sanju Samson in last 2 games : 1 Half Century

It's sad how favoritism and professional bootlicking with a pinch of sympathy can ruin someone's career pic.twitter.com/5kHBUgqG74

— Chinmay Shah (@chinmayshah28) July 27, 2024

Team India's playing 11 for the first T20 match against Sri Lanka

Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Riyan Parag, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj.