IPL 2022: Sanju Samson Slams Rajasthan Royals For Their Twitter Post Mocking Him, Unfollows The Franchise On Twitter

Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson on Friday was irked by a tweet from the franchise and it resulted in the captain unfollowing the official Twitter page of Rajasthan Royals.

As the IPL 2022 is all set to commence with its first match between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday, the social media team of all franchises is pretty busy engaging with their loyal fans on different platforms.

Franchises are trying to give the best insights into the training camps, pool games, team talks, player and coach interviews to keep the cricket fans updated with the team’s preparations for the upcoming season of the cash-rich league.

Some of the franchises are also engaged in making trending videos with the players with the likes of KKR, Gujarat Titans, CSK and Delhi Capitals are leading the show in terms of entertaining the audience.

Sanju Samson slams Rajasthan Royals’ Twitter post and unfollows them

Rajasthan Royals happened to post a picture of Sanju Samson with some glittery filters added to it- black spectacles and an Arabian prince turban on his head. The franchise captioned:’Kya khoob lagte ho’ (You’re looking gorgeous) with a couple of emojis added to it.

However, the post didn’t seem to go well with the Kerala wicketkeeper-batter. Samson got furious with the post and immediately rebuked it.

The Rajasthan Royals skipper quoted the tweet and wrote: “Its ok for friends to do all this but teams should be professional..@rajasthanroyals.”

Its ok for friends to do all this but teams should be professional..@rajasthanroyals https://t.co/X2iPXl7oQu

— Sanju Samson (@IamSanjuSamson) March 25, 2022

Rajasthan Royals deleted the tweet after Sanju’s response.

Sanju has also unfollowed RR on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/M7SPPLvucR

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) March 25, 2022

After Samson slammed the post, the franchise was forced to delete the tweet from its page but it was too late as the captain had already unfollowed them on Twitter but continues to follow the team’s official Instagram handle.

IPL 2022: Sanju Samson to lead Rajasthan Royals in his second season

Samson was retained in the IPL 2022 retention players’ list along with England wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler and Indian youngster Yashasvi Jaiswal. Samson took over the captaincy reins from Steve Smith after the latter was released by the franchise ahead of IPL 2021. Samson didn’t have a great start to his captaincy in IPL as RR finished seventh on the points table with five wins in 14 league stage matches.

Samson is the second-most run-scorer of Rajasthan Royals with 2583 runs in 95 innings behind former skipper Ajinkya Rahane (3098).

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