The 2024 version of the Indian Premier League (IPL), 4 months earlier than its kick-off took the limelight instantly after India’s loss in the World Cup 2023 remaining with the groups saying their retentions and releases. Amid all of this, some monumental transfers befell with Mumbai Indians buying the companies of their former participant Hardik Pandya again with Avesh Khan being traded for Devdutt Padikkal to Rajasthan Royals. There had been rumours of a few extra high-profile trades however they ended up being simply rumours.
One of them going round was of Sanju Samson, the 29-year-old wicketkeeper-batter, who has been main the Rajasthan Royals for the final three seasons. Just a few unverified accounts mentioned that Samson was in talks with the Chennai Super Kings and the attainable successor of MS Dhoni at the franchise, nevertheless it turned out to be false. One of the customers attributed such a declare to R Ashwin, senior Indian cricketer and Samson’s teammate at the Royals and he was fast to fact-check the mentioned user on X (previously Twitter).
“Sanju Samson was approached by CSK as a captain which was nearly finalised. But it didn’t go through Sanju rejected their offer. There’s a definite possibility in future,” claimed the user quoting Ashwin to which the bowler replied saying, “Fake news! Don’t lie quoting me.”
In the day and age of social media the place pretend news has grow to be rampant, fake-quoting has grow to be a norm as of late for simple engagement and this was not the first or the final time this occurred with the celebrities. Ashwin, nonetheless, was not going to sit and watch and busted the pretend news then and there.
Ahead of the 2024 version of the IPL, Ashwin was retained by the Royals amongst 17 gamers whereas the likes of Jason Holder, Joe Root, Obed McCoy and Murugan Ashwin had been launched.
