{"id":231451,"date":"2026-03-04T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/watch-the-boss-sanju-samson-shares-heartwarming-moment-with-wife-after-match-winning-innings-against-west-indies-crictracker\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:14:50","slug":"watch-the-boss-sanju-samson-shares-heartwarming-moment-with-wife-after-match-winning-innings-against-west-indies-crictracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/watch-the-boss-sanju-samson-shares-heartwarming-moment-with-wife-after-match-winning-innings-against-west-indies-crictracker\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] \u2018The Boss\u2019 &#8211; Sanju Samson shares heartwarming moment with wife after match-winning innings against West Indies | CricTracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>Sanju Samson hit an unbeaten 97 against West Indies in India\u2019s must-win Super 8 game on Sunday, March 1, to help his side secure a place in the T20 World Cup semi-finals. For his heroic efforts with the bat, the right-handed batter picked up the Player of the Match award. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>The 31-year-old dialled her wife right after his match-winning innings but was unable to get in touch. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>\u201cNo messages! Calling the wife, the Boss! It never connects,\u201d said Samson after a failed attempt to reach out to his wife.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>However, after collecting his Player of the Match medal, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crictracker.com\/cricket-players\/sanju-samson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samson<\/a><\/strong> pulled out his phone from his socks and video called his wife, Charulatha Samson, to share the post-game emotions. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>In a heartwarming moment, his wife did not know that she was being filmed by the media, and later gave a huge smile and posed to celebrate the moment once she found out that she was being recorded. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-teams=\"true\">Watch the video below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVcwRmvjPgv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span data-teams=\"true\">Sanju Samson takes India home\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>Samson played only his third game in this year\u2019s T20 World Cup. The former <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crictracker.com\/t20\/ipl-indian-premier-league\/rr-rajasthan-royals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0skipper, however, grabbed the opportunity with both hands to score an unbeaten 97 to take his side home. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>The destructive opening batter scored at an incredible strike-rate of 194, in an innings that included 12 fours and four sixes. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>Samson also took the gloves in the game against West Indies and took two crucial catches to dismiss Shimron Hetmyer and Sherfane Rutherford off the bowling of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, respectively. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><span>India will now travel to Mumbai to face England for a third consecutive time in a T20 World Cup semi-final on Thursday, March 5. The Men in Blue would be hoping for a repeat of the performance they put in back in 2024 where they defeated Jos Buttler\u2019s side by 68 runs in Guyana.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-semi mb-0\"><span class=\"d-none d-md-inline\">Get every cricket updates!<!-- --> <\/span>Follow Us<!-- -->:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crictracker.com\/cricket-news\/watch-the-boss-sanju-samson-shares-a-heartwarming-moment-with-his-wife-after-his-match-winning-innings-against-west-indies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanju Samson hit an unbeaten 97 against West Indies in India\u2019s must-win Super 8 game on Sunday, March 1, to help his side secure a place in the T20 World Cup semi-finals. For his heroic efforts with the bat, the right-handed batter picked up the Player of the Match award. \u00a0 The 31-year-old dialled her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[164,169,37955],"class_list":{"0":"post-231451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-india","9":"tag-sanju-samson","10":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}