India's Sanju Samson plays a shot during the second T20 cricket match between India and England at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)Sanju Samson after having a fruitful 2024 as an opener has started the 2025 slowly in T20I format. In three games so far against England, he scored 34 runs at an average of 11.33. Former England player Kevin Pietersen backed Samson to come good at some point and said by taking risks “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”
“I just think that on occasions you get stuck and that’s life. You’ve got to take risks at the top of the order. Same as Abhishek Sharma, same as all these batters. They’re taking risks at the top of the order. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but more often than not, Samson comes up with the goods,” Pietersen said on Star Sports.
“I think mentally he’s sound. I really like Sanju Samson as a batter. I actually love him. I was pretty surprised that he hasn’t had more of a consistent role over the last few years. Yes, he’s got a game here at the top of the order, but listen, these things happen. Things happen so quickly in the shortest form of the game,” he added.
Not only Samson is going through a lean patch but his dismissals are identical. He got out to pulling the short ball in all the games.
“If he keeps doing it over the next six weeks or he does it over the next couple of months, then I’d probably have a look at it and start to question his technique. But I think that he’s a fabulous player. I think he plays the short ball extremely well, and I just think he’s a rock solid player. So from that standpoint, there’s no way that I’m going to stand here and critique his play of the short ball,” Pietersen would say.
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