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Sanju Samson of India (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
Sanju Samson has present go India’s starring T20I wicketkeeper successful presumption of sixes, surpassing MS Dhoni’s record. Samson has deed 55 sixes successful 48 innings, overtaking Dhoni’s 52 successful 85 innings. Rishabh Pant sits 3rd with 44 sixes successful 66 innings, portion Ishan Kishan has 36 successful 32 innings. Before the
Asia Cup
, Samson had been opening alongside Abhishek Sharma and had scored 3 centuries successful that position. This tournament, however, helium has been playing successful the mediate bid owed to Shubman Gill’s instrumentality to the team. In India’s past crippled against Bangladesh, Samson was slotted astatine fig 8 and did not get a accidental to bat.
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Samson has continued to show his destructive powerfulness successful the mediate overs. During Friday’s thrilling Super Over triumph against Sri Lanka, helium contributed a captious 39 runs astatine No.
5. His strokeplay included breathtaking sixes, including a towering deed implicit the sight-screen disconnected Hasaranga’s bowling and a crisp maximum implicit cattle country against Dasun Shanaka. These shots helped India station 202 for 5 successful 20 overs, a full that astir near the defending champions connected the brink of defeat.
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With this record, Samson has established himself not lone arsenic a dependable batter but besides arsenic 1 of India’s astir explosive wicketkeepers successful T20 cricket. His quality to wide the ropes consistently and his adaptability successful antithetic batting positions marque him a cardinal plus arsenic India prepares for the Asia Cup last against
Pakistan
connected Sunday.
