{"id":3950,"date":"2022-06-28T21:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230379"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:20:58","slug":"ind-v-ire-crowd-cheers-as-hardik-pandya-announces-sanju-samsons-comeback-to-playing-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-ire-crowd-cheers-as-hardik-pandya-announces-sanju-samsons-comeback-to-playing-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v IRE: Crowd cheers as Hardik Pandya announces Sanju Samson\u2019s comeback to playing XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India chose to bat first against Ireland in the second T20I at Dublin after winning the toss. Three changes to the lineup were made, and when captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sanju+Samson\">Sanju Samson<\/a> is\u00a0in the playing XI, the fans erupted in ecstatic cheers.<\/p>\n<p>In order to manage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ruturaj+Gaikwad\">Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/a>\u2018s continued recovery from an injury, Sanju Samson was called up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Avesh+Khan\">Avesh Khan<\/a> was replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Harshal+Patel\">Harshal Patel<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Yuzvendra+Chahal\">Yuzvendra Chahal<\/a> is rested, giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ravi+Bishnoi\">Ravi Bishnoi<\/a> a chance to play in the second T20I against Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Samson enters the series after guiding Rajasthan Royals\u00a0to the IPL 2022 championship final.<\/p>\n<p>Samson was not included in the Indian team for the five-match home series against South Africa, despite his strong IPL performance lately.<\/p>\n<p>Samson has appeared in 13 T20Is for India overall, scoring 174 runs in those 13 games but without a single half-century. Samson and Ishan Kishan have come out to bat first for India as they look to win another white-ball series.<\/p>\n<p>India won the first game on Sunday with ease after chasing down 109 runs in 12 overs with seven wickets remaining. During the first T20I, they also won the toss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Playing XI:<\/strong> Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Umran Malik<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The one and only Sanju Samson! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamSanjuSamson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IamSanjuSamson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SanjuSamson?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SanjuSamson<\/a> \ud83d\ude40\ud83d\ude40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZyUvcliT6\">pic.twitter.com\/GZyUvcliT6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ismail Vasil (@i_vasil_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i_vasil_\/status\/1541811508723580928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 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\/_r0binn_\/status\/1541806764299284480?s=21&t=1qaniftNhe_IUd9ySDDRLw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruturaj Gaikwad, who was injured, was replaced by Sanju Samson, Avesh Khan and\u00a0Yuzvendra\u00a0Chahal\u00a0were replaced by Harshal Patel and Ravi Bishnoi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[143,3339,629],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-ind-v-ire","tag-sanju-samson"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}