Sanju Samson has taken centre stage since India's ICC T20 World Cup 2026 campaign. Despite having played only five matches in the competition, Samson finished as the third-highest run-getter overall and the highest for India.
Former Indian all-rounder revealed that a crucial conversation between Sanju Samson and himself helped the wicket-keeper batter turn around during the toughest phase of his career.
"He had scored two hundreds in South Africa, so I felt… the conversation I had with him happened in 2024 when India won that World Cup in Barbados. In that World Cup, Sanju was not playing. I had been watching his batting for 2-3 IPL seasons. I told him we would speak whenever he had time," he revealed while speaking on a podcast with Sports Tak.
"So my issue with Sanju was, you have to improve your footwork. If you don’t improve your footwork, you will consistently land in trouble. Scoring runs or not is different, but you have to improve your footwork. I gave him some ideas on how to improve it," Yuvraj backed the Indian opener.
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"After that, he played, didn’t do well, but then got another opportunity. I felt in the quarter-final, semi-final, and final, the more balls he faced, the better his footwork kept getting. The more time he spent on the wicket, the more his footwork improved. So I felt obviously he must have done something in his practice," claimed the Indian all-rounder.
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The former World Cup winner with team India revealed that cricket is one such game where one special moment can help shift the entire momentum for a cricketer.
Consistency became the name for Samson as he registered three consecutive half-centuries, starting from the 97* against the West Indies that took India to a semi-final. He then scored 89 in back-to-back innings in the two knockout games to win his second consecutive final.
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