{"id":76792,"date":"2025-08-19T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:25:20","slug":"is-sanju-samsons-spot-secured-in-indias-asia-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76792\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sanju Samson\u2019s spot secured in India\u2019s Asia Cup squad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Sanju Samson\u2019s spot secured in India\u2019s Asia Cup squad? <\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__author-name\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Onmanorama Staff\">Onmanorama Staff<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__published-date\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished: August 18, 2025 05:41 PM IST<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__read-time\">1 minute Read<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sanju-samson.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" alt=\"Sanju Samson en route to his miaden T20I hundred against Bangladesh. Filer photo: PTI\/Shailendra Bhojak\" title=\"Sanju Samson \"\/>          <\/p>\n<p>\t    \tSanju Samson. File photo: PTI\/Shailendra Bhojak<\/p>\n<p>Sanju Samson&#8217;s inclusion in India&#8217;s Asia Cup squad is one of the talking points ahead of the announcement by the selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar.<\/p>\n<p>Popular commentator Harsha Bhogle thinks Sanju will make the 15-member squad on the basis of his performance in the South Africa tour last year, where he scored three centuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sanju had a spectacular tour in South Africa,&#8221; Bhogle said in his preview show on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Sanju could not replicate his form in the five-match home series against England early this year, but Bhogle thinks the 30-year-old Kerala wicket-keeper batter has &#8220;done enough&#8221; to earn the call.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some pundits have claimed that India&#8217;s Test captain Shubman Gill might be overlooked, considering the wealth of T20-only players available for selection.<\/p>\n<p>A Sanju Samson-Abhishek Sharma opening combination is the most popular one discussed by fans on social media, while having Tilak Varma bat at No 3 is also regarded as a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>While Varun Chakravarthy has nailed his spot in the squad, the option of an additional spinner could be weighed between Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi.<\/p>\n<p>Sanju was overlooked for the Champions Trophy (50-over), which was held in Pakistan and the UAE. The Asia Cup will be played in the UAE from September 9 to 28. India are in Group A alongside arch-rivals Pakistan, the hosts and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>onmanorama-topic-organisation-8-team-india 1528lijdr7gmtv72gd207sktmh-list 78url8iuie136dpdedvcqdl5jh onmanorama-topic-general-topics-11-cricket onmanorama-topic-person-39-sanju-samson onmanorama-topic-events-1-asia-cup 6m2apfppjh7flshshcd7vfj89f-list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Sanju Samson\u2019s spot secured in India\u2019s Asia Cup squad? &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Onmanorama Staff Published: August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26164,39250,39253,1721,16326,39247,39248,39246,9981,39252,6975,39251,39254,39249,7054,101,39255,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-76792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ajit-agarkar","tag-asia-cup-2024","tag-asia-cup-india-squad-prediction","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-selection","tag-harsha-bhogle","tag-india-asia-cup-squad","tag-india-cricket-team","tag-indian-cricket-selection-criteria","tag-sanju-samson","tag-sanju-samson-asia-cup-selection-chances","tag-sanju-samson-performance-analysis","tag-sanju-samson-south-africa-tour","tag-shubman-gill","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-team-selection","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}