Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma gave India a blistering start against the Chevrons. The former got off to a good start using his experience and playing attacking shots from the very first over, and scored 24 off 15 balls, hitting two sixes and one four in his short, impactful innings. Stitching a partnership of 48 runs for the first wicket.
After Sanju Samson came back in the side, the opening partnership went to 48 runs. Pointing out to this former pacer, Irfan Pathan praised Samson for his short, explosive innings and expressed his thoughts about how the opener played according to the expectations of the team management.
Sanju Samson played exactly the way the team needed-Irfan Pathan
India’s first-wicket average this World Cup was just around 7. lowest among all teams.Today, Sanju Samson played exactly the way the team needed and helped put up India’s highest opening partnership of this World Cup.He did the job.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) February 26, 2026Indian opening partnership has been a problem
Due to one of the openers failing to fire, pressure was increasing on India’s middle order, and they were collapsing in the middle overs. However, the problem was not just low runs, but the manner of dismissals as the openers were too defensive against the new balls, or they were getting out by playing reckless shots.
In the last seven innings, he has scored 92 runs with an average of 13.14. This has been the reason he was dropped. This was only the second match he got in this edition of the competition. Samson played the first match against Namibia after Abhishek Sharma was out due to a stomach bug.
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