Former India player Aakash Chopra has stated that he doesn’t want to incite Sanju Samson’s fan army. However, he shared that Sanju Samson has been dismissed similarly in all four of his innings in the ongoing T20I series between India and England as well. However, Samson managed one run off three deliveries as India posted 181/9 after being asked to bat first in the fourth T20I in Pune on Friday, January 31 as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said: “India lost the toss and got to bat first. Sanju Samson once again got out in the same fashion. I don’t want to trigger Sanju’s fan army at all but the fact is that he has now been dismissed similarly four times. He got out to Saqib Mahmood’s bowling this time. So continuously in the same fashion against the short ball, finding a fielder in the deep and once caught at mid-on, thrice against Jofra Archer and once against Saqib.”

ALSO READ: “Aap Lucknow ke naye nawab hain” – Aakash Chopra on Rishabh Pant’s appointment as LSG captain

Meanwhile, Aakash Chopra shared that Tilak Varma was potentially overaggressive at the start of his things but stated that he wouldn’t
question the youngster over one failure as well.

“He (Samson) got out and Tilak got out off the next delivery. There will be a question. It’s an interesting era in which we are living where the ‘GenWin’ is deciding and coming that they would play like this only. He tried to hit a six off the first ball, got an outside edge, and was caught at third man. We will not judge you on one performance because Tilak Varma has scored a lot of runs,” he said.

“If this is his way of scoring runs, okay then. If the Indian team wants him to play like this, okay then. Suryakumar Yadav came and got out this time for zero. Saqib, who wasn’t playing earlier and whose visa was delayed, bowled a triple-wicket maiden. It has never happened in India’s T20I history that they were reduced to 12/3 but it happened here,” Aakash Chopra concluded.