Abhishek Sharma<\/a>. Samson also struck a record three hundreds in the previous calendar year. Post the return of Gill for the Asia Cup in September, Samson was left with a middle-order role outside his usual slot in the top-order. <\/p>\n\u201cYou played him in the (Asia Cup) final and he scored a few runs. You only told us that he can bat down the order. We were saying you should make him open only, and if you are not doing that, play Jitesh. That was my original position, but you said you will be able to take care of Sanju Samson and will play him, and you know what you are doing. We respected that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Will the same happen to Jitesh?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou played him, the team won the Asia Cup, and we clapped. After that, his batting didn\u2019t come in Canberra. Okay sir, no problems. You sent him at No. 3 in Melbourne. Surprise, but we say okay sir, but then you dropped him. Now I am unable to understand whether I should again say okay sir, because it\u2019s not understandable what we are trying to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Chopra further questioned the team management for their wavering selections and quizzed whether they will provide the backing for Jitesh if he is preferred over Samson. <\/p>\n
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\u201cSo whether Sanju Samson will play or not is a big question, in my opinion. If Jitesh was played and he has performed decently as well, scored 20-odd runs, logic says you will stay with him, but whether you will, I don\u2019t know sir. I don\u2019t have the answer to that question,\u201d Chopra observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After batting at number 3 in a solitary outing in the Australia tour, wicket-keeper Sanju Samson has seemingly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[176991,1406,11096,121746,61066,17703,176993,176992,34926,79,6924,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-552927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-aakash-chopra-on-sanju-samson","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-cricket-news","11":"tag-india-vs-australia","12":"tag-jitesh-sharma","13":"tag-sanju-samson","14":"tag-sanju-samson-dropped","15":"tag-sanju-samson-ind-vs-aus","16":"tag-shubman-gill","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115502895809463868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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