Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has shown concern about Sanju Samson’s batting against express pace. He also added that the wicketkeeper-batter has neither been able to score runs nor succeeded while playing against pacy, especially short, deliveries as well. Samson managed only five runs off seven deliveries as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Abhishek Sharma got out. He scored runs in the last match. So we won’t talk a lot about him. Our stats team came out with a stat on how Sanju Samson has performed when the ball’s speed is more than 140 kph. His performance has been extremely ordinary. He hasn’t scored runs and has lost his wicket as well. His strike rate is very low. He is going deep inside the crease and going a little towards square leg. The bowlers are bowling bouncers and laying a trap by keeping a fielder in the deep. He has been caught in the deep twice in two matches. It is just a talking point right now.”
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“He has scored three centuries if we see the five matches before this series. The story of centuries and ducks was ongoing, which is okay, but if this is his response to serious pace bowling, if you remove that 22-run over of Gus Atkinson (in the first T20I) since you want to improve, you will realize he hasn’t scored too many runs, and he is having problems against pace and bouncers,” Chopra further added.

However, Sanju Samson was caught in the deep while trying to pull a pacy Jofra Archer delivery in the second T20I as well. He got out almost identically by the same bowler in the first match as well . In the same video, Aakash Chopra also added that Suryakumar Yadav’s poor form
continued in the second T20I against England too.
“Suryakumar Yadav got a duck in the first match and was batting well in the second match, but then he got out again, and that’s not a good story. The entire 2024 was not good and 2025 hasn’t started well as a batter. However, if we compare Chennai and Kolkata, he looked better in Chennai,” Aakash Chopra concluded.