On Monday, March 30, when the teams of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings will take the field in Guwahati, a new journey will begin in the IPL career of star wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson. Samson, who has played for Rajasthan Royals almost his entire career and has been captaining this team for the last few seasons, will debut against the same team for Chennai Super Kings. With this, Sanju Samson’s dream of playing for Chennai, which he had been dreaming of for the last 2-3 years, was fulfilled. At least this seems to be the case from the revelations of team captain Ruturaj Gaikwad.

Till the last season of IPL, Sanju Samson was the captain of Rajasthan Royals, which responsibility he was carrying out for about 5 seasons. But after IPL 2025, he decided to leave the franchise and Rajasthan Royals signed him. Chennai Super Kings Traded with. At that time it was being claimed that Sanju was unhappy about many issues in the franchise. Now it is not clear what the truth is but a revelation by Chennai captain Gaikwad has given it a new twist.

What did Gaikwad say about Sanju?

In an interview posted on the YouTube channel of Super Kings, Ruturaj Gaikwad told that he had talked to Samson 2-3 years ago and then he had expressed his desire to come to CSK and Gaikwad himself had inspired him for this.

Gaikwad told, “He (Sanju) asked, how is Mahi Bhai? And how about will you be the next captain? I said I don’t know, I am not focused on becoming the captain. Then he said, ‘I don’t want to come in such a situation that I would like to become the captain. I want to play under your captaincy. I would just like to play as a player, whenever I get a chance, I would like to come there.'”

For how many years did Samson stay in Rajasthan?

Sanju Samson’s dream finally came true when Rajasthan traded him to Chennai. In their place, Rajasthan included veteran all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran from CSK in their squad. Sanju Samson made his IPL debut for Rajasthan in 2013. He was a part of Delhi only in 2016 and 2017 when the franchise was banned. In this way, overall Sanju spent 11 out of 13 seasons with Rajasthan and during this period he played 149 matches for the franchise.