{"id":768801,"date":"2026-06-30T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768801\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:25:20","slug":"sanju-sooryavanshi-is-waiting-in-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768801\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sanju, Sooryavanshi Is Waiting In The Wings&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sanju Samson is back to his normal stuff of being an inconsistent batter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgwidth\" title=\"Sanju Samson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/28sanju.jpg\" alt=\"Sanju Samson\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Sanju Samson registers two golden ducks in a row. Photograph: BCCI<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>Sanju Samson&#8217;s inconsistent form highlighted after two consecutive golden ducks against Ireland.<br \/>\nSamson faces stiff competition for his spot, with young talent like Vaibhav Sooryavanshi emerging.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rbig\">India&#8217;s shock 2-0 T20I series defeat to Ireland in Belfast has once again put the spotlight on Sanju Samson after another forgettable outing.<\/p>\n<p>The wicketkeeper-batter was dismissed for a golden duck for the second game in a row, with Ireland pacer Jai Moondra removing him off the very first ball of the chase.<\/p>\n<p>During the live broadcast, Sanjay Manjrekar did not hold back, questioning Samson&#8217;s long-standing inconsistency despite his success at the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;His T20 World Cup heroics certainly surprised many of us as well. This is why he was in and out of the white-ball team for so long,&#8217; Manjrekar said on air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He needs to be consistent because Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is waiting in the wings. He makes a big impact in one game and then fails in the next three or four. That&#8217;s not the sign of a batter who can hold his place in the team for a long time.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sanju Samson is back to his normal stuff of being an inconsistent batter.&#8217; IMAGE: Sanju Samson registers two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,365747,25035,43196,85,10391,183793],"class_list":["post-768801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-india","tag-sanjay-manjrekar","tag-sanju-samson","tag-sports","tag-t20i-series","tag-vaibhav-sooryavanshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}