Asia Cup 2025: Troll (Photo-PTI) despite scoring half-century Sanju Samson
Sanju samson: India’s wicketkeeper Sanju Samson scored a half -century against Oman in the Asia Cup but despite this, these players became a victim of criticism. Sanju Samson scored an innings of 56 runs against Oman but a record of playing a slow innings was recorded. In fact, Sanju Samson played 41 balls to score a half -century, which is the slowest fifty of his T20 International career. Sanju scored a total of 56 runs in 45 balls and his strike rate was just 124.44.
What was the mistake with Sanju Samson?
Sanju Samson hit 3 sixes and 3 fours in his half -century innings but played a lot of dot ball. He scored 30 runs with sixes, but Sanju Samson played 18 balls, which is very high in T20 cricket. Sanju Samson was seen to be quite stuck on Abu Dhabi’s slow pitch and there was a lot of difficulty in rotation. By the way, a fact is that Sanju has also become the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a half -century in the T20 Asia Cup. Talking about the match, while Sanju’s strike rate was very low, on the other hand, Abhishek Sharma hit 38 runs at a strike rate of 253. Akshar Patel scored 26 runs at a strike rate of 200. Tilak Verma scored 29 runs at a strike rate of 161.
These batsmen failed
Shubman Gill proved to be badly failed against Oman, he scored only 5 runs. Hardik Pandya scored a run. Shivam Dubey was dismissed for 5 runs. Oman bowlers bowled well than expected and stopped India for only 188 runs.
Oman’s best bowling
For Oman, left -arm fast bowler Shah Faisal bowled amazing. This player took 2 wickets for just 23 runs in 4 overs. Jiten Ramanandi took 2 wickets for 33 runs. This player also run out 2 players. Aamir Kalim also took 2 wickets in his name.