One of India's most legendary cricketers and a former World Cup winner, Sunil Gavaskar, has marked a startling resemblance between Indian superstar Sanju Samson and West Indian legend Sir Vivian Richards.
Sanju Samson helped India seal a victory in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. Though everyone made their contributions, which made it a famous victory, had it not been for Samson, India would not have made it to the semi-finals and, secondly, would not have been able to put 250+ runs on the board in the semi-finals and the final.
This was something that Sir Viv Richards, one of the greatest ever cricketers in the world, had done for a long time for his national side. He not only won games for them but also made the opposition tremble out of fear whenever they saw him coming out with the willow.
Former Indian great Sunil Gavaskar praised Sanju Samson for his extraordinary outing in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. He heaped praise on the Kerala star who helped India clinch their consecutive title in the shortest format of the game.
Talking about his explosive batting in the T20 World Cup, where he scored runs with a strike rate of 199.37, Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar that his strokeplay, especially the pull shot, reminded him of West Indian legend Vivian Richards.
"His pulling off the fierce pace of Jofra Archer was reminiscent of Viv Richards at his powerful best, though most of his batting is more like the Sri Lankan stylist Mahela Jayawardene," noted Sunil Gavaskar.
Gavaskar praised Sanju Samson for playing quality cricketing shots in T20Is
Gavaskar continued, saying the purity of batting is not something in common with the modern batters, especially in the shortest format of the game, but Samson showed how runs can be scored through orthodox ways. This was quite similar to India's very own Virat Kohli, though.
"Purity of batting is generally a virtue in the longest format of the game, Test match cricket, and occasionally in the 50-over game, but hardly ever in the ultra-short format of the game," wrote Gavaskar.
"Samson provided that in all his three fifty-plus innings in playing classical cricket shots, along with some of the most imperious pulling and hooking seen in recent times," he continued.
Both openers...justified the trust show- Sunil Gavaskar
India not only backed Sanju Samson by making him return to the Indian side, but also backed Abhishek Sharma despite the left-hander struggling with very poor form.
However, the southpaw returned to good form in the final and returned the faith with a quickfire half-century that gave India the perfect start with 98 runs off 43 balls for the first wicket.
"In the final, Abhishek Sharma came good with the quickest half-century in the T20 World Cup. Both the openers had, with their performances when it mattered most, justified the trust shown in them by the team’s brains trust," said Gavaskar (via the aforementioned source).
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