A big development ahead of the fourth and decisive T20I of the series against new Zeeland is the current form- rather the lack of it- where it comes to Sanju Samson.
The big question that is, therefore, right up selectors’ and Indian team’s think tank’s alley is whether the Kerala born cricketer, a famous figure in the national side, should in fact be in the team’s playing eleven?
While unfounded criticism and hearsay be done aside, facts point to the clear matter that’s now become a pressing issue. And what is that? Nothing else but that runs have dried up from the usually unsparing and heavy handed blade of Sanju Samson.
How is that? Go no further than the string of recent scores that the right hander has managed for the Indian team in the currently on series against the BlackCaps of New Zealand. In the three T20I’s played each at Guwahati, Raipur and Nagpur, Samson managed 0, 6, and 10.
While three games are done and dusted with India winning each of those T20 contests, a lot is at stake for the better, even if his team didn’t falter in winning all the games.
With the fate of the series to be decided in the next few hours, it ought to be said, so too could be the case with the struggling Sanju Samson. What do you reckon?
Another factor that is worth looking at is the overall T20I record that Samson has exhibited in the format. So what is it?
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He’s played 55 games sporting India’s jersey blue and scored in excess of 1000 runs with a strike rate that is approaching 150. These aren’t bad numbers at all, are they?
What would you say. But what is concerning right now is the string of low or let’s say no scores that the very talented and dangerous big hitter of the white ball is managing right now.
Following three one-sided losses, India will take on New Zealand in the fourth T20I, having already won the five-match series. The match will be played at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
