{"id":136496,"date":"2026-09-24T05:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/i-couldnt-sleep-gambhir-on-toughest-decision-to-drop-sanju-for-sooryavanshi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T05:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:35:52","slug":"i-couldnt-sleep-gambhir-on-toughest-decision-to-drop-sanju-for-sooryavanshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/i-couldnt-sleep-gambhir-on-toughest-decision-to-drop-sanju-for-sooryavanshi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I couldn&#8217;t sleep&#8217;: Gambhir on &#8216;toughest decision&#8217; to drop Sanju for Sooryavanshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Gambhir shared the tough emotional burden he encountered while dropping Sanju Samson from India&#8217;s T20I squad after their defeat against England. Despite previous strong performances from Samson, Gambhir stressed the necessity of evaluating player form and ensuring a cohesive team dynamic. Samson was later reintegrated into the lineup, showcasing his talent in the series against Afghanistan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Gambhir shared the tough emotional burden he encountered while dropping Sanju Samson from India&#8217;s T20I squad after their defeat against England. Despite previous strong performances from Samson, Gambhir stressed the necessity of evaluating player form and ensuring a cohesive team dynamic. Samson was later reintegrated into the lineup, showcasing his talent in the series&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/i-couldnt-sleep-gambhir-on-toughest-decision-to-drop-sanju-for-sooryavanshi\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;I couldn&#8217;t sleep&#8217;: Gambhir on &#8216;toughest decision&#8217; to drop Sanju for Sooryavanshi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":136497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}