{"id":19830,"date":"2022-05-07T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=219757"},"modified":"2022-05-07T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T11:49:37","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-sanju-samson-becomes-first-player-for-rr-to-play-100-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-sanju-samson-becomes-first-player-for-rr-to-play-100-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022: Sanju Samson becomes first player for RR to play 100 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanju Samson, the captain of Rajasthan Royals, will play his 100th innings for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League\u2019s 52nd match of ongoing season against Punjab Kings.<\/p>\n<p>The Rajasthan Royals captain got off to a winning start in the IPL 2022 season with a quickfire 27-ball 55 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Samson followed up with a comeback against Mumbai Indians before suffering his first season setback against Royal Challengers Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>He struck Wanindu Hasaranga for a six down the pitch, then chipped a curveball right back to the bowler two balls later to fall for eight. In the match, Samson got off to a flying start with three sixes before being caught by Hasaranga while trying an opposite to a full-length delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, Samson has scored the most runs in winning reasons among all non-openers in the IPL, with 622 of his 1157 runs (53.5%) going to the Royals in 17 triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Rajasthan Royals are in a solid position under his leadership, which aids his appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Rajasthan Royals are in a solid position under Samson\u2019s leadership, which aids his appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[465,629],"class_list":["post-19830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-sanju-samson"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}