{"id":20037,"date":"2022-05-28T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=225378"},"modified":"2022-05-28T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T10:08:13","slug":"the-man-is-the-real-successor-of-ms-dhoni-netizens-hails-sanju-samson-as-rr-qualifies-for-the-ipl-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/the-man-is-the-real-successor-of-ms-dhoni-netizens-hails-sanju-samson-as-rr-qualifies-for-the-ipl-final\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe man is the real successor of MS Dhoni\u201d netizens hails Sanju Samson as RR qualifies for the IPL Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajasthan+Royals\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> will face debutant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Gujarat+Titans\">Gujarat Titans<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">IPL<\/a> Mega Final on 29th May. The Royals have had an amazing out this season. The side looked well-managed, and the player combination on the field was spot-on. Rajasthan\u2019s captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sanju+Samson\">Sanju Samson<\/a> played some crucial knocks and worked calmly in the pressure situation. He made sure that the youngsters didn\u2019t panic and kept their cool. The most impressive specialty of Samson was that even if the team was losing the game, he never showed frustration on his face. He played with a calm and peaceful mind and ensured that the end result favored his side. In IPL 2022, Samson has scored 444 runs in 16 matches with a fantastic strike rate of 147.51. However, his average has been 29.60, showing his lack of consistency. Nevertheless, Samson compensated for his low average with his captaincy and wicket-keeping skills.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Samson became the second Rajasthan Royals captain to abide the franchise to the IPL Final. After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=RR\">RR<\/a>\u2018s victory against RCB in Qualifier 2, netizens hailed Samson for his character and his composed nature throughout the tournament. Some even compared the youngster to the Indian legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=MS+Dhoni\">MS Dhoni<\/a> and tweeted, \u2018The man is the real successor of MS Dhoni.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Check out the tweets here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Captain Sanju Samson, going to lead his IPL franchise in a final on Sunday \u2013 444 runs from 16 matches, cool, calm under pressure. The leader of Rajasthan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uzkdVg9qgG\">pic.twitter.com\/uzkdVg9qgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1530244886649503745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mohit67231116\/status\/1530249999182962688?t=_2TYKHHxF9gvL5HArVRtOQ&s=08<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Said it before saying it again. There is lot to like About sanju Samson\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrfanPathan\/status\/1530247515710570496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Appreciate Bowlers , But Sanju Samson The Captain The Way He Rotated His Bowlers , Brilliant \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83e\uddff\ud83e\uddff\ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chinmay Shah (@chinmayshah28) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chinmayshah28\/status\/1530215766435344384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/___Invisible_1\/status\/1530231690244653056?t=lBMdfYEk1N6Piix78rgkKQ&s=08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Sanju Samson led Rajasthan Royals to the IPL Final for the second time in its history. The franchise reached the Finals last in 2008 when they defeated CSK to lift the IPL trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":40664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2094,69,465,629],"class_list":["post-20037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-indian-premier-laegue","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-sanju-samson"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}