‘You get caught and…’: Pietersen rubbishes criticism of Sanju Samson’s approach vs quick balls regardless of flop present
Former England skipper Kevin Pietersen shared his evaluation of Indian openers Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma’s inconsistency on the high of the order. After the retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, India have caught with the opening pair of Samson and Abhishek within the shortest format. Underneath Suryakumar Yadav’s management, the Males in Blue adopted a fearless batting strategy, the place there is not a excessive chance for a batter to attain large runs in each match.
Abhishek performed a match-winning knock within the first T20I however then did not make a lot of an impression within the subsequent two matches, whereas Samson registered a few single-digit scores and 26 within the sequence opener.
Pietersen additionally urged that enjoying an attacking model of cricket would not assure success each time, however he backed Samson and mentioned he has a superb observe document with this strategy.
“I simply suppose that on events you get caught and that is life. You have to take dangers on the high of the order. Identical as Abhishek Sharma, similar as all these batters. They’re taking dangers on the high of the order. Generally you win, typically you lose, however as a rule, Samson comes up with the products,” Pietersen mentioned on Star Sports activities.
The previous English skipper heaped reward on Samson and expressed shock that he had not obtained constant possibilities up to now.
“I feel mentally he is sound. I actually like Sanju Samson as a batter. I truly love him. I used to be fairly shocked that he hasn’t had extra of a constant function over the previous few years. Sure, he is acquired a sport right here on the high of the order, however pay attention, these items occur. Issues occur so rapidly within the shortest type of the sport,” he added.
‘Samson performs the quick ball extraordinarily properly’
Samson struggled a bit within the ongoing sequence on the quick balls, however Pietersen feels there is not fault in his approach, and he’s not going to boost questions on it.
“If he retains doing it over the following six weeks or he does it over the following couple of months, then I might most likely take a look at it and begin to query his approach. However I feel that he is a wonderful participant. I feel he performs the quick ball extraordinarily properly, and I simply suppose he’s a rock strong participant. So from that standpoint, there is no method that I’ll stand right here and critique his play of the quick ball,” he concluded.
