Sanju Samson Cricket Career: Sanju Samson made his debut in Team India in the year 2015 itself. But, the surprising thing is that even after making his debut 11 years ago, he has not played as many matches as he should have played. Still, Samson’s number of matches in any format has not reached even close to 100. He has played only 16 ODI and 61 T20 International matches. But, after seeing back to back half-centuries in T20 World Cup 2026, the coach has now told Sanju Samson something big about his career. According to the coach, Samson can play international cricket for the next 7 years.
Samson can score a century in IND vs NZ final- Coach
Sanju Samson’s childhood coach, after watching his batting in the T20 World Cup 2026, said that the way he has played in the last two innings is amazing. Samson took Team India to the semi-finals by playing an unbeaten inning of 97 runs in the last match of Super-8 and then by scoring 89 runs in the semi-finals, the team got the ticket to the final. The coach said that he expected a century from Samson. But it seems that he has saved the century for the final. According to the coach, Samson is in a good mind set. Reading the opposition bowlers well. He can score a century in the final.
‘Can play 6-7 more international cricket’
Sanju Samson’s coach further said in an interview given to ANI that according to him Team India will become champion. As far as Sanju Samson’s future of playing international cricket is concerned, he still has 6-7 years of cricket left in him. In that sense, this will not be his last World Cup. In future too, he can be seen playing and winning some more World Cups for India.
#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala | On Sanju Samson’s performance in the Semi-Finals of T20 World Cup, Sanju Samson’s childhood coach says, In the last two games, his batting was brilliant. I was wishing for a hundred, which I am hopeful that he has kept for the finals and pic.twitter.com/ZsWShkg33I
— ANI (@ANI) March 6, 2026
How is Sanju Samson’s performance in T20 WC 2026?
Talking about Sanju Samson’s performance in T20 World Cup 2026, he has scored 232 runs in 4 innings of 4 matches with a strike rate of more than 201. During this period his average is 77.33. He is the batsman with the best average and strike rate from India in the tournament. Not only this, with 16 sixes, he has also become the Indian to hit the most sixes in a T20 World Cup. In this case, he has broken Rohit’s record of 15 sixes. Due to these successes, Sanju Samson is now in the race to become the Player of the Tournament.
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