Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
“The cricket we’ve played—if a team has gone unbeaten from one World Cup to another and won the World Cup, I’m sure it’s a gun team. Suddenly, it doesn’t become a bad team after one or two series, and these guys do not become bad players after two or three failures. That is what these guys have shown here as well,” Gambhir added.
India head coach Gautam Gambhir made it clear that the 15-year-old batting sensation will have to be patient for his next opportunity in the senior side, despite the excitement surrounding his emergence and the clamour to see him in action on home soil. We know the kind of talent he has and what he can do, but someone who has been performing for the last 2–3 years will always be ahead of someone who has just entered the team,” Gambhir said at the post-match press conference. Gambhir also revealed how difficult it was to leave Samson out of India’s England series, while explaining why the team returned to the combination that delivered the 2026 T20 World Cup. Sooryavanshi, India’s youngest T20I debutant, had scored 42 runs in three matches in England before making a major impact against Zimbabwe, where he finished the series as the leading run-scorer with 151 runs at a strike rate of 196.10 and was named Player of the Series.
Because those guys, after three or four failures, do not become bad players,” he said.
So he’s done enough,” Gambhir said. Gambhir said India deliberately went back to the opening combination that had delivered their World Cup triumph, arguing that a few failures did not make established players ineffective. “From Vaibhav’s point of view, it was a very clear conversation that he will have to wait for his opportunity. “I think his [Samson’s] talent itself is enough for him to be in the dressing room. I think he’s shown what he’s capable of. Someone doesn’t become a Player of the Tournament in a World Cup without having that talent. “But again, sometimes you go with player form as well. In this series, we were always very clear from my point of view that we wanted to go back to the combination we had during the World Cup.