Sanju Samson
India recently ended their five-match T20I series against the West Indies in a 2-2 draw. Because there you need more all-rounders, either a spin all-rounder or a seaming all-rounder, “Vaibhav playing every game seems a bit difficult in New Zealand.
“Consistency should be there, but for the top order, I think consistency is overrated in T20s,” Pujara said while analysing Samson’s fluctuating returns on JioHotstar’s ‘Out or Not Out’, as quoted by news agency PTI. He said the conditions could require more all-rounders, leaving less room for specialist batters in the top order. So, there you don’t need a lot of batters, especially in the top order,” he said. “Sanju plays with everyone’s emotions because he won’t score runs for two matches, and everyone starts raising questions,” Nayar said.
They will begin their multi-format tour of New Zealand with the shortest format. Pujara also expressed doubts over whether Samson and teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi could feature together in India’s playing XI in New Zealand.
“He is never out of form. The kind of player Sanju Samson has been in the T20 format; his form fluctuates. But it is always a matter of one innings. He plays one good innings, and he is back in form.”
However, Pujara said Sooryavanshi could still get a chance if the conditions or a player’s fitness opened up a spot in the team. “So, you cannot say that this player is not in form. In the T20 format, you are bound to have failures. Who doesn’t get out in T20s?” he added.