Sanju Samson created history by becoming the first cricketer from India to score two T20 international centuries in a row. On Friday, he scored a stunning century in the first T20 international against South Africa held in Durban. Notably, this century of Samson’s came after he had scored a magnificent 47-ball 111 in India’s previous T20 international match against Bangladesh. He reached his 100 within the 47-ball mark by 7 fours and 9 sixes. Samson also other record of the fastest T20I century scored by an Indian against South Africa is also in his records.
Hundreds in consecutive innings in T20Is
Gustav Mckeon
Rilee Rossouw
Phil Salt
Sanju Samson
Following the announcement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s retirements from T20I format, benefits of the T20I top – order batsman have emerged. Well played n:11 and earlier in the team rosters, this sansom has made sure gained through few games of the shortest format whenever he is given that opportunity.
The 29-year-old who plays for Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) went on to become the third player to hit T20I centuries in back-to-back matches amongst Test playing nations and the fourth ever in the world. The athlete achieved this feat prior to Phil Salt of England, Rilee Rossouw of South Africa and Gustav McKeon from France. It was maintained that the Frenchman was the first one to attain the milestone.
Samson was the Rajasthan Royals’ first retention ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, being held for Rs 18 crore. Having guided the franchise to the playoffs in two of the last three seasons, Indian cricket’s decorated young batter is currently at the top of his game in T20 international cricket and without doubt one of the best batsmen India has to offer.
Earlier, South Africa have won the toss and choose to field first against India.
Playing XIs:
India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Varun Chakravarthy
South Africa: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Partrick Kruger, Marco Jansen, Andile Simelane, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Nqabayomzi Peter
