Follow UsSanju Samson doesn’t believe in fiddling around. An aggressive batter, who has suffered more failures than success in his long T20 career, Samson divides opinion due to his prolonged failures. But when it comes off, it does really well, as evidenced by his twin centuries against South Africa in November.
However, Samson, who also suffered two ducks in the same series, has failed to do much in the ongoing England series, with three one-digit scores so far. Pace has often troubled him and in the ongoing series, he attempted to play with a horizontal bat each time and got caught on the on side between deep backward square leg and mid-on. But former Indian batter Sanjay Manjrekar suggested that batters like Samson should be given the leeway despite failures.
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“When you are looking at a T20I talent, batting talent, you have got to see when they are playing well what kind of impact they can make, what contribution they can make. And you see with Sanju Samson when he plays well, he gets an incredible hundred and puts your team in a winning position,” Manjrekar said on ESPNCricinfo.
“So, such people are allowed failures and maybe a long patch of failures as well because that’s the nature of these as a T20 cricketer, where you can’t play yourself, where you have to keep taking those risks that they take, and hopefully there’s one innings that just propels him back into form.”
“So, with Sanju Samson, I think you should just make sure that he gets as many innings as possible purely because when he gets into form and plays well, he makes it all worth it. If that was another guy who was failing in this fashion and, when he got into form, just got you 40 or 50, then maybe you would offer him a shorter rope. But I will have a lot of patience with this current version of Sanju Samson,” he added.
In 41 T20Is, Samson has just scored 845 runs at an average of 25.60 and a strike rate of 151.43.