Sanju Samson created a ruckus on South Africa tour, ruined the careers of bowlers by playing a stormy innings of 212 runs

Manish Gaidhankar
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Sanju Samson created a ruckus on South Africa tour, ruined the careers of bowlers by playing a stormy innings of 212 runs Source: Social Media

Sanju Samson: Team India is currently on a tour of South Africa. Where a 4 match T20 series is being played. The first match of this series was played in Durban on Friday. Batting first, India scored a huge score of 202 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. While South Africa’s team collapsed at 141 runs. India won this match by 61 runs. The hero of Team India’s victory was Sanju Samson. He scored 107 runs in 50 balls. Meanwhile, his innings of 212 runs which he played in Vijay Hazare Trophy has come into the limelight.

Sanju Samson played a stormy innings of 212 runs 

Team India’s wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson used to be in the headlines earlier for not getting a chance in the team. But now he is trending on the internet for his explosive batting. His fierce form was seen in South Africa. He stunned the bowlers by batting at a strike rate of 200 in the first T20 match played in Durban.

Sanju Samson has also done the feat of scoring a double century in domestic cricket. Let us tell you that the huge innings played by Sanju in Vijay Hazare is still remembered. To know about this innings of his, we have to go back a bit. It is about the year 2019-20. When the teams of Kerala and Goa were face to face in Vijay Hazare. In this match, Sanju’s bat exploded. He played a huge innings of 212 runs.

Sanju stunned the bowlers by hitting 21 fours and 10 sixes

When Sanju Samson comes to bat on the field and once he is set, then Sanju takes the bowlers to task. Something similar was seen in the Vijay Hazare Trophy as well. It was as if Sanju was seeing a football and not a ball.

He faced 129 balls in his innings of 212 runs. Out of which 31 balls were such. Sanju hit them out of the boundary with his aggressive batting. Let us tell you that a total of 21 fours and 10 towering sixes were seen from Sanju Samson. On the basis of his innings, Kerala won this match by a huge margin of 104 runs.

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