Ireland Cricket Board did not make any offer to Sanju Samson to represent their cricket team - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
December 14, 2022
A post is being widely circulated on social media claiming that Indian Cricket player Sanju Samson is going to represent the Ireland cricket team. Amid allegations that the Indian Cricket Board is not providing enough opportunities for Sanju Samson to play for India at the international level, this post claims that Sanju Samson was offered to lead the Ireland Cricket team by the Ireland Cricket board. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Indian cricket player Sanju Samson is now going to lead the Ireland Cricket team.
Fact: Several sports and mainstream news websites recently published articles reporting that the Ireland Cricket team had made an offer to Sanju Samson to represent their cricket team. Further, these news reports informed that Sanju Samson had politely denied this offer saying that he wishes to represent India and could never imagine playing for another country at the international level. Responding to an e-mail request for clarification, the Ireland Cricket Board referred to these news reports as complete rubbish and denied making any such offer to Sanju Samson. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On searching for the details of the claims made in the post, we found that several sports and mainstream news websites have recently published articles reporting that the Ireland Cricket team has made an offer to Sanju Samson to represent their cricket team, promising that he would feature in all the matches. A few of those news reports can be seen here, here and here. Further, these news reports informed that Sanju Samson had denied this offer saying that he wishes to represent India and could never imagine playing for another country at the international level.
But, we could not find any such announcement either from the Ireland Cricket Board or from Sanju Samson. We could not find any such announcement on the official social media handles of Sanju Samson. Responding to Factly’s e-mail request for clarification regarding these news reports, the Ireland Cricket Board said, “Complete rubbish. We have no idea where it came from”. The Ireland Cricket Board denied making any such offer to Sanju Samson.
A few sports websites have also published tweets and articles clarifying that the Ireland Cricket Board had not made any such offer to Sanju Samson to lead their cricket team.
🚨CLARIFICATION🚨
The above-mentioned reports are false as cricket Ireland has denied any such offer being made to the Indian cricketer.
To sum it up, the Ireland Cricket Board did not make any offer to Sanju Samson to represent their cricket team.