Sanju Samson equalized Rohit Sharma by raining sixes, left Dhoni-Pant behind

Sanju Samson Records: India defeated South Africa by a huge margin of 61 runs in the first T20 match. The hero of the Indian team’s victory was wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson. Sanju Samson played an innings of 107 runs in 50 balls. He hit 7 fours and 10 sixes in his innings. At the same time, now Sanju Samson of this innings has equaled the big record of Rohit Sharma. Also, the records of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rishabh Pant have been broken. Sanju Samson has jointly reached the top in the list of batsmen who have hit the most sixes in an innings of T20 matches for India. Earlier, Rohit Sharma had hit 10 sixes against Sri Lanka.

Sanju Samson has become the 19th player to hit 10 or more sixes in a T20 innings. Estonian Sahil Chauhan is at the top in the list of batsmen who have hit the most number of sixes in an innings of T20 format. At the same time, in the first T20 match against South Africa, Sanju Samson crossed the fifty-run mark for the third time. He is the third wicketkeeper batsman to do this for India. KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan have done this feat 3-3 times. Whereas Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rishabh Pant managed to do this 2 times each.

At the same time, this is Sanju Samson’s second consecutive century in T20 cricket. Earlier, Sanju Samson had scored a brilliant century against Bangladesh. In this way, Sanju Samson has become the first Indian batsman to score two consecutive centuries in T20 history. Let us tell you that India defeated South Africa by a huge margin of 61 runs in the first T20 match. The Indian team, who came to bat first, scored 202 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In this way, South Africa had a target of 141 runs, but the host team was limited to just 141 runs in 17.5 overs.

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