{"id":37412,"date":"2025-03-18T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/?p=37412"},"modified":"2025-03-18T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T03:47:17","slug":"sanju-samson-joins-rajasthan-royals-camp-ahead-of-ipl-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/news\/sanju-samson-joins-rajasthan-royals-camp-ahead-of-ipl-2025-season-37412\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanju Samson Joins Rajasthan Royals Camp Ahead of IPL 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-rr-team-players-list-with-price-full-squad-16502\/\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> are gearing up for the new <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/\">IPL <\/a>season, and the first champs are facing off against <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-srh-team-players-list-with-price-full-squad-16516\/\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/a>, the 2024 finalists. Game 2 is happening on March 23 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Word is the Royals are making big changes to their team for <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-schedule-time-table-venue-teams-playoffs-and-final-match-13508\/\">IPL 2025<\/a>. Guys like <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/tag\/jos-buttler\/\">Jos Buttler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/trent-boult-ipl-2025-team-price-career-stats-records-13427\/\">Trent Boult<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/tag\/Ravichandran-Ashwin\/\">Ravichandran Ashwin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/tag\/Yuzvendra-Chahal\/\">Yuzvendra Chahal<\/a>, and tons of other big names got released before the auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they brought in <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/nitish-rana-ipl-2025-team-price-career-stats-records-15953\/\">Nitish Rana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/wanindu-hasaranga-ipl-2025-team-price-career-stats-records-15757\/\">Wanindu Hasaranga<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/maheesh-theekshana-ipl-2025-team-price-career-stats-records-15770\/\">Maheesh Theekshana<\/a> to help them push forward. Before the season started, the Rajasthan Royals got a boost when their captain, <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/tag\/Sanju-Samson\/\">Sanju Samson<\/a>, showed up at camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\ude0b\ud835\ude29\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude2e \ud835\ude0b\ud835\ude29\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude25\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2c\ud835\ude22 in training with Vaibhav \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hvBVO5lN2F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hvBVO5lN2F<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajasthanroyals\/status\/1901500786078871570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Samson&#8217;s leading the Royals again in IPL 2025. He&#8217;s had a few good seasons with the team, and he&#8217;s hoping to get them their second IPL title. It&#8217;s worth mentioning that the last three seasons have been tough for the Rajasthan Royals. They made it to the final in IPL 2022 but lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-gt-team-players-list-with-price-full-squad-16532\/\">Gujarat Titans<\/a>. They didn&#8217;t even make it out of the group stages in IPL 2023. Then, they got to the playoffs in IPL 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They beat <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-rcb-team-players-list-with-price-full-squad-16471\/\">Royal Challengers Bengaluru<\/a> in the eliminator but then lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2025-srh-team-players-list-with-price-full-squad-16516\/\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/a> in Qualifier 2. After another rough ending, they switched up their team. With <a href=\"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/tag\/Rahul-Dravid\/\">Rahul Dravid<\/a> as the new head coach and some fresh faces, the Royals are hoping to do way better in 2025 and maybe even win it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rajasthan Royals are gearing up for the new IPL season, and the first champs are facing off against Sunrisers Hyderabad, the 2024 finalists. Game 2 is happening on March 23 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Word is the Royals are making big changes to their team for IPL 2025. Guys like Jos Buttler,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[149],"class_list":{"0":"post-37412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-sanju-samson"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",1024,490,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-300x144.webp",300,144,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",788,377,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",1024,490,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-150x72.webp",150,72,true],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-450x215.webp",450,215,true],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-640x490.webp",640,490,true],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-96x96.webp",96,96,true],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WKC-vs-UPF-Dream-11-Prediction-4-150x72.webp",150,72,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Divyansh Mishra","author_link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/author\/divyansh-mishra\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Rajasthan Royals are gearing up for the new IPL season, and the first champs are facing off against Sunrisers Hyderabad, the 2024 finalists. Game 2 is happening on March 23 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Word is the Royals are making big changes to their team for IPL 2025. 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