Guwahati, March 29 -- The IPL, like most spectacles that promise cricket and deliver theatre, has found its favourite trick again, turning a match into a story of human vanity, memory, and misplaced loyalties.
The opening clash between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings is not merely about runs and wickets, that will be forgotten by next week. It is not about Samson returning to a place but about a shift, he wears colours that do not quite fit his past.
Sanju Samson, once the quiet face of Rajasthan's ambitions, now walks out as an opponent. Cricket administrators may call it a trade, commentators may dress it up as strategy, but to those who still believe the game has a soul, it is something closer to a parting of ways that never f...