Fiddling around is not something that Sanju Samson believes in. Due to his protracted failures, Samson, an aggressive batter with more failures than successes in his lengthy T20 career, divides opinions. But as seen by his double hundreds against South Africa in November, it performs incredibly well when it works.
With three one-digit scores thus far in the current England series, Samson, who also lost two ducks in the same series, hasn’t done much. He has frequently struggled with pace, and during the current series, he tried to play with a horizontal bat each time but was caught on the on side between mid-on and deep backward square leg. Despite their shortcomings, batters like Samson should be allowed some tolerance, according to former Indian batter Sanjay Manjrekar.
“You have to see what type of impact and contribution a batting talent with T20I ability can have when they are playing exceptionally well.
When Sanju Samson performs well, he scores an amazing hundred runs and puts your team in a winning position, as Manjrekar observed.
Because that’s the essence of T20 cricket, where you can’t play yourself and have to keep taking the chances they do, such people are permitted to fail—and perhaps have a string of failures. Hopefully, one innings will help him get back into form.
Sanju Samson makes it all worthwhile when he plays well and comes into form, therefore I believe you should just make sure he gets as many innings as you can. Perhaps you would give him a shorter rope if that individual was also failing in this way and, once he came into shape, only got you forty or fifty. However, I shall be very patient with Sanju Samson as he is now,” he continued.
Samson has only amassed 845 runs at a strike rate of 151.43 and an average of 25.60 in 41 Twenty20 Internationals.
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