Amid Suryakumar Yadav's dipping form in ODIs former India's star batter Wasim Jaffer wants to draw Team India's draw attention towards Sanju Samson with nearing ODI World Cup which will be held later this year.
Suryakumar suffered a nightmarish outing in the just concluded ODI series against Australia where the Numero Uno in T20Is could even score a single runs in the three-match contest and recorded an embarrassing feat of claiming three consecutive golden ducks. India conceded the three-match series 1-2 after succumbing to 21-run loss in the decider game in Chennai on Wednesday (March 23). Suryakumar's lean patch saw many raising voice to include Samson who could be a good replacement for Suryakumar and provide a much needed stability to India's batting line-up especially when the ODI World Cup 2023 is around the corner. In 11 matches in the ODIs, Samson has amassed 330 runs at an average of 66 while Suryakumar has scored 433 runs in 23 matches at an average of 24.05.
Speaking to Cricinfo after India's series loss Jaffer sympathised with Suryakumar for his poor show with the bat and said it's high time for India to look for his replacement. Jaffer said that player like Samson should probably come into the fold while still having Suryakumar in the thick of things when it comes to ODIs.
"I would probably sympathise with him. It doesn't happen with probably a number eleven batter. It's one of those things that you get out for a golden duck three times in a row. It probably would never happen to him again, hopefully. It's just a bad luck to him. But I think India need to look somewhere else," Jaffer said.
"Even though he is a quality player, he would come out pretty good as the IPL will start and he will be in his element. But India needs to look at Sanju Samson or somewhere else and still stick with Surya because he is a quality player. "If he comes good, we all know he is a quality player and so you just don't need to keep him aside. If IPL goes well, we will be tempted to play him again but India need to look at Sanju Samson as well," Jaffer concluded.
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