Suryakumar Yadav does not give guarantee of opener to Sanju Samson despite him scoring Triple centuries

Suryakumar Yadav has stated that once Shubman and Yashasvi return back to the T20 squad, he will not guarantee an opening spot to Sanju Samson and they will have to decide what to do.

Wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson has secured two centuries in his last five T20I appearances. Samson has finally gave out a performance according to his potential, and has cemented his place in the Indian T20 squad.

Samson has excellent under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, but after all-format players Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal return back to the T20I squad, Samson might not get a guaranteed spot as an opener.

“I haven’t thought about it so far, I like to live in the moment, I will try to enjoy what happened today because it’s a special win, a special series win,” Suryakumar said in the post-match press conference.

“I’m sure when they [Jaiswal, Gill] come, we’ll sit and talk about it, it will be difficult but it’s a good headache to have going forward if you have 20-25 people and you have to make a team of 10-15, so it’s quite a challenge and it’s a good thing for every team, it feels good to see this, so when those players come, we’ll see, we’ll talk to them, there are a lot of people, team management, selectors, BCCI, to get rid of that headache, we’ll see, there’s no problem,” he added.

In the final T20I of the four-match T20I series against South Africa, Samson stayed unbeaten for 109 runs off 56 deliveries. He shared an unbeaten record of 210-run partnership with Tilak Varma, who was also unbeaten for 120 off just 47 balls.