India vs South Africa: Sanju Samson was removed, Suryakumar Yadav gave the opening to Ishan Kishan.

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Samson’s leaf cleared (Photo-PTI)

T20 World Cup Warm up Matches: In the warm-up match against South Africa in Navi Mumbai, India won the toss and chose to bat first. The special thing after the toss was that captain Suryakumar Yadav changed the opening of Team India. After winning the coin bet, Suryakumar Yadav said that Ishaan Kishan will do the opening along with Abhishek Sharma. Meaning, first Sanju Samson was stripped of wicketkeeping and now he has been removed from opening as well.

Ishan Kishan rewarded for good batting

Ishan Kishan had performed brilliantly in the T20 series against New Zealand. He scored one century and one half-century in the series and scored 215 runs with his bat. After this performance he has been given preference over Sanju Samson. In the fifth T20 against New Zealand, Ishaan was made wicket-keeper in place of Sanju and now he has also been given the opening. This decision of Team India indicates that in the first match of the T20 World Cup, not Sanju Samson but Ishan Kishan will open.

sanju samson clean sheet

Samson will have to bear the loss of failing in all five T20 matches against New Zealand. Now this player will hardly be seen in the playing eleven even in the T20 World Cup matches because if Ishan Kishan is opening then it means that Tilak Verma will play at number 3. However, it is not going to be so easy for Ishaan and Tilak Verma to score runs. Because there is a difference between batting at number 3 and batting in the opening. On the other hand, Tilak Verma is making a comeback after recovering from injury and it will definitely be difficult for him to score runs against the quality bowling attack.

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