Former India selector and batter Kris Srikkanth has chastised the incumbent chief selector, Ajit Agarkar, for excluding Sanju Samson from the ODI squad for the upcoming tour of Australia. Srikkanth believes that picking Dhruv Jurel, who doesn’t have an ODI cap yet, instead of the Kerala star, is another example of the selectors changing their ways for different individuals and ‘confusing the players’.

Samson hasn’t played ODI cricket since 2023. He was performing well in the format at the time, averaging well over 50, but the Rahul Dravid-Rohit Sharma regime chose Suryakumar Yadav for the lower-order batter’s role, which backfired in the 2023 World Cup. India found a solution a few months later by pushing KL Rahul further down the order and surrounding him with all-rounders, which helped

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