Gautam Gambhir statement on Sanju Samson: Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has praised Sanju Samson’s batting.

New Delhi: Indian team head coach Gautam Gambhir has praised Sanju Samson a lot. Gambhir believes that when Sanju Samson is in his form, he can snatch the match from the opposition team in the power play itself. Samson performed brilliantly in the final stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. He helped India win the title for a record third time by scoring half-centuries in the semi-finals and final.

Abhishek Sharma and Samson together scored 92 runs in the powerplay in the final and thus snatched the match from New Zealand. Gambhir said on Geo Star, “We know what Sanju can do. There was never any doubt about his talent and explosive batting. If he gets into rhythm, he can win the match in the first six overs itself.

Sanju had scored fifty in the last three matches

Samson’s performance against New Zealand before the World Cup was not good and hence he did not get a place in the playing eleven in the initial matches of the ICC tournament, but when he got a chance in the do-or-die match against Zimbabwe, Samson achieved the rhythm by scoring 24 runs in 15 balls and after this he scored unbeaten 97, 89 runs and 89 runs in the next three matches.

Gambhir said, “I told him this in the gym. Actually we were both training together and I just told him that you will play against Zimbabwe and he said, ‘Okay.’ Our conversations are informal in this way. This is not like the relationship between a head coach and a player. It’s a relationship in which most of our face-to-face interactions happen during practice sessions.

Sanju was not getting a place due to team combination

In Samson’s absence, India’s top order included three left-handed batsmen in Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma, but Gambhir insisted that the decision to include Samson in the playing eleven was not with the aim of breaking the left-handed batsman’s combination but to give the team more attacking strength.

He said, “I know that many people will talk about that we wanted to break the combination of the three left-handed batsmen present in the top order, it is not like that at all. We just wanted to be more aggressive. For the last one and a half years, our mindset has been to come out on the field and perform as aggressively as possible. Gambhir said, “The reason for bringing Sanju into the team was not to control the off-spinner from the other end but was based on whether we could be more aggressive in the first six overs.”