Sanju Samson’s T20I Merry-Go-Round LIVE: What Does India Want? | First Sports With Rupha Ramani

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Sanju Samson is back in India’s T20I squad, but after being a World Cup match-winner, a middle-order option, a player dropped and then recalled, his place still seems anything but settled. Rupha Ramani dissects the curious case of Samson, India’s constant reshuffling around him, the Vaibhav Sooryavanshi factor and the bigger question of whether a player can ever truly find his place without continuity. Rupha Ramani then breaks down how sport can push back against political power, through Iran’s Saghar Moradi winning a world taekwondo title amid the deepening US-Iran confrontation, and why an Iranian flag rising on the sporting stage can carry a weight far beyond the medal itself. And finally, Naomi Osaka once again finds herself at the centre of a conversation that seems to go far beyond tennis, this time walking onto the US Open court in a newspaper-covered outfit that turns the headlines around her into part of the story. From fashion and self-expression to criticism, Osaka continue

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