Sanju Samson created records after record during his amazing innings of 212* for Kerala against Goa in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20. He is finally realizing his potential and backing his promise with consistent runs, which had got him a T20I debut in 2015.

He has scored a couple of hundreds in IPL as well and is looking a very good competitor to Rishabh Pant in the limited-overs format, or even as a pure batsman. He smacked 212 in just 129 balls with his century coming off 66 balls and his double came in a record 125 balls, with 10 sixes and 21 fours to his name.

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Following his knock, Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor congratulated him on the wonderful show. He took to Twitter and wrote, “In transit in Frankfurt on the way to the @IPUparliament meeting in Belgrade when i get the news that Thiruvananthapuram’s own Sanju Samson has hit 200 in a Vijay Hazare 50 over game! Ten sixes, 20 fours. Don’t know if our white-ball selectors were watching?!,”

However, fellow Kerala cricketer S Sreesanth took offense to Tharoor calling Samson as ‘Thiruvananthapuram’s own’. Sreesanth reminded him that Samson is a great Indian. He also praised Samson on the knock.

Sreesanth tweeted, “Sir..,Don’t tag him as just a Trivandrum boy..he is Malayalam”s proud son and a great INDIAN. He is gonna make all of us proud very soon by scoring big and better in internationals @where he belongs..let’s hope and give him the best support .. @IamSanjuSamson”