Sanju Viswanath Samson

Sanju Viswanath Samson is an Indian international cricketer, who is a member of the white-ball formats of the Indian national team. A right-handed wicket-keeper-batter, he captains Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League and Kerala in domestic cricket. He was a part of the Indian team which won the 2024 T20 World Cup.  He made his international debut in 2015 in a T20 international against Zimbabwe. He is the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a century in a T20 international. He was the vice-captain of the Indian U-19 team for the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his One Day International debut in 2021 against Sri Lanka. 
Samson started his cricketing career in Delhi and later moved to Kerala. After making an impact in junior cricket, he made his first-class debut for Kerala in 2011. He made his Premier League debut in 2013 for Rajasthan Royals and won the Emerging Player of the Year.  He scored his debut ODI century in the 3rd ODI in the three-match series against South Africa on 21st December 2023.
Samson was born on 11 November 1994 into a Malayali Christian family in Pulluvila, a coastal village near Vizhinjam in the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. Samson spent his early childhood in the Police residential colony in the North Delhi neighborhood of GTB Nagar and studied at Rosary Senior Secondary School, Delhi. He trained under coach Yashpal at the academy in DL DAV Model School, Shalimar Bagh. In Kerala, he attended the Masters Cricket Club in Thiruvananthapuram before changing academies to train under Biju George on Medical College Ground, Thiruvananthapuram. Samson graduated high school from St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He pursued a B.A. degree in English literature from Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram.* (Collected from the public domain) UPDATED ON 15/10/2024.