Sanju Samson made headlines with his brilliant consistency across formats recently. In his last six competitive games, he has scored three centuries, including one in the Duleep Trophy, hitting a purple patch that he arguably never did in his career before as well. Samson’s 107 off 50 balls against South Africa, his second T20I hundred in as many matches after his 111 against Bangladesh last month, has helped him to do well again.

Speaking to the broadcaster during the innings break, Samson said, “If I think a lot I will get emotional. I waited for this moment for 10 years, I’m very happy, grateful and blessed. But I would like to keep my feet on the ground, be in the moment and enjoy.”

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“Really enjoyed my time out there in the middle. I made maximum utilisation of my current form you can say,” Samson again said after collecting his player of the match award. “The intent, we have been talking about being aggressive and keeping the team ahead of yourselves. Once you play three-four balls you are looking for the boundary.”

He knows that he plays a ‘high risk high reward game.” “I’m not thinking much, sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. I am happy it worked out well today.” Even Sanju Samson’s captain Suryakumar Yadav spoke highly about the work put in by the player all through the last decade.

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“The amount of hard work he has done in the last 10 years, doing the boring work, he is eating the fruits of that. He was in the 90s but still he was looking for a boundary, playing for the team and shows the character of the man and that’s what we look for,” Suryakumar Yadav said.