Indian cricketer Sanju Samson came up with a hilarious reply to one of his fan’s questions about Yuzvendra Chahal’s fake appointment as Rajasthan Royals captain. Chahal has been one of the best entertainers in the Indian dressing room and recently, he had taken over RR’s official Twitter handle through which he announced a fake appointment of himself as the captain and also revealed plans to open the batting alongside Jos Buttler.

On a funny note, Samson congratulated Chahal for his appointment and the leg-spinner straightaway came back with a hilarious message from RR’s Twitter account stating “jealous jealous”. Apart from this, Chahal had also left the Twitterati in splits with his series of posts that included messages for Ravichandran Ashwin and Buttler.

Royal Challengers Bangalore all-rounder Glenn Maxwell feels that Virat Kohli will be back at his best without the captaincy burden in the upcoming IPL 2022 season. The 33-year-old Kohli had announced his decision to step down as RCB captain during IPL 2021, and Faf du Plessis has been named as the new skipper for the upcoming season.

Kohli has not been at his best in the international circuit and stepped down from T20I and Test captaincy for India as well. Going by the policy of one captain for all formats, the selectors named Rohit Sharma as the full-time skipper in ODIs and the time has come for Kohli to rediscover his best form with the bat. The right-hander has dominated the game across formats in the last decade and he will have to bring his A-game back in the upcoming IPL season.

It has been learned that the media rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL) could be released soon, most probably in a week’s time. Notably, as per the previous announcement, the tender was set to be released five months ago, in October last year. Some reports had suggested that the continued delay was due to the pressure from current host broadcaster Star, whose tenure will end after the conc.