Watch: Abhishek Sharma credits Sanju Samson for India’s fearless approach in 3rd T20I vs New Zealand
Watch Abhishek Sharma credit Sanju Samson for India’s fearless approach in the 3rd T20I vs New Zealand. See what he said about the team’s attacking mindset and how India won the third T20I. Full details inside
Left-handed Indian batter Abhishek Sharma has praised Sanju Samson for his selfless character after India's blistering win over New Zealand in the third T20I of the five-match series at the Hnry Stadium in Wellington. The opener made it clear that Samson made the sacrifice, batting at three in this encounter.
Sooryavanshi batted at number three during the second T20I of the series at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch and returned with a poor score of just four runs in eight balls at a strike rate of 50. However, in Wellington, he was promoted to open the batting with Abhishek.
What did Abhishek Sharma say about Sanju Samson’s role?
Sanju Samson scored heavily at the top of the order and won the Player of the Match award in the series opener, and he had all the reasons to expect that he would open the innings in Wellington. However, he sacrificed his position during the third game.
Watch Abhishek's moment here-
“We opened today; Sanju bhai opens first, we can see that everyone in the team is selfless. I feel that the atmosphere that the team showed today will make it easy for everyone.” Abhishek expressed after the third fixture at the Hnry Stadium.
“Like Sanju bhai played his innings in the last 2 matches, I feel everyone, someone is going at his position like Sanju bhai showed his character, I feel the whole team did.” The southpaw addressed.
It sends a strong message to the rest of the squad. When a senior player is ready to change his role for the benefit of the side, nobody else can complain about their own place in the order.
How India won the 3rd T20I against New Zealand
New Zealand, while batting first, smashed a huge score of 198 runs for the loss of three wickets, thanks to Daryl Mitchell’s fine knock of unbeaten 89 runs at a strike rate of 171.15 with five boundaries and as many sixes. Bevon Jacobs remained undefeated on 39 runs off 23 balls.
India completed the chase by six wickets with 40 deliveries to spare as Abhishek smashed a fine knock of 113 runs off 38 balls at a strike rate of 297.37 with the help of nine boundaries and 11 over boundaries.
Brief Scores: India 199/4 (Abhishek Sharma 113, Kyle Jamieson 2/45) beat New Zealand 198/3 (Daryl Mitchell 89*, Arshdeep Singh 1/33) by 6 wickets.
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