Ecstatic Thiruvananthapuram connects with home hero Sanju Samson
The Hindu
“Don’t worry Trivandrum, Sanju Samson is playing tonight,” India skipper Suryakumar Yadav announced at the toss ahead of the fifth T20I against New Zealand to the roaring response from a sellout crowd here on Saturday.
“Don’t worry Trivandrum, Sanju Samson is playing tonight,” India skipper Suryakumar Yadav announced at the toss ahead of the fifth T20I against New Zealand to the roaring response from a sellout crowd here on Saturday.
It contained the adulation the home city carries for its biggest sporting icon, in fact the biggest in the modern sporting history of the State.
Kerala always had iconic names in Olympic sports — P.T. Usha (athletics), I.M. Vijayan (football), Jimmy George (volleyball) to name a few — but never in cricket. S. Sreesanth came close, but the outspoken cricketer divided the opinions sharply on and off the field.
Cricket needed a universally loved figure to take deep root in the Malayali consciousness, one who often straddles old-school values and modern brazenness.
Samson offered it. His aggression with the bat and stylish shot-making, though with a streak of inconsistency, was good enough for a new breed of sports fans to take him to the heart.
“Many times people expect Rahul Dravid-level consistency from Sanju. But that’s not the case. He is a shot-maker and there will be ups and downs. Look at Abhishek Sharma, he got two big knocks in this series but failed to get going in the other two.
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