Huge Blow For Rajasthan Royals, Captain Sanju Samson Set To Miss Crucial RCB Clash Due To Injury

Captain Sanju Samson of Rajasthan Royals (RR) Sanju Samson will miss the next IPL 2025 match against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) due to secondary tension. The franchise added that in the context of recovery, Samson will not go to Bengaluru and will remain in Jaipur with certain members of RR medical staff. The Guichet-Optiner goalkeeper had chosen the injury by playing against Delhi Capitals (DC) at the Arun Jaitley stadium and was forced to retire after marked 31 balls, because RR finally lost the match in a great super.

“Team management closely monitors its progress and will adopt a match -by -match approach concerning its return to action,” the franchise of its declaration said on Monday. It also means that Riyan Parag, who has led RR in four games so far in the absence of Samson, will be captain of the team against the RCB led by Rajat Patidar at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday.

Samson is not available for RR against RCB means that the left -handed striker Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who became the youngest player to appear in the 14 -year -old tournament during their two -point defeat against Lucknow’s Super Giants (LSG) at the Sawai Mansingh stadium, will continue to open the stick alongside Jaiswal.

Samson is the second highest appeal of IPL 2025 RR with 224 points in seven -rounds with an average of 37.33. He, the top scorer in RR and RR of this season, Yashasvi Jaiswal (307 points in eight rounds) are the only strikers on the side to have made more than 200 points during the current season.

RR, the inaugural victors of IPL in 2008, is in eighth position on the 2025 IPL point table with four points, and are not ahead of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on the basis of the net execution rate (NRR).

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