6,6,6,6,6,6,6….. Sanju Samson wreaked havoc in Vijay Hazare ODI tournament, played an innings of 212 runs hitting 21 fours and 10 sixes

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|21-08-2024

Sanju Samson: There are many such examples in the cricket world where a player is unable to become a big name despite having immense talent. Sanju Samson's name is also included in the list. There is often a lot of discussion about this player of Team India. He has played many great innings in domestic cricket, on the basis of which the player from Kerala got a chance to play in international cricket.

However, Sanju has completely failed to perform as per expectations on the big stage so far. Today we are going to talk about the 212-run innings played by this 29-year-old player. During a match against Goa in the 2019 Vijay Hazare Trophy, the right-handed batsman thrashed the bowlers. He hit 21 fours and 10 sixes during his innings. Let's know in detail.

When Sanju Samson made bowlers his ghost

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Actually this incident is of 12 October, 2019. A 50 over tournament was being played under Vijay Hazare. The teams of Goa and Kerala came to play against each other. If we talk about this match, then Kerala decided to bat first after winning the toss. This team, which came to bat first, was forced to struggle at one time after losing two wickets for only 31 runs.

However, after this, Sanju Samson came out to bat and played a very wonderful innings of his career by presenting an example of excellent batting. The right-handed batsman faced 129 balls and scored 212 runs. Sanju hit 21 fours and 10 sixes in his innings. During this, his strike rate was 164.34.

The result of this match was something like this

As far as this match is concerned, Kerala batted first and scored a huge score of 377 runs for the loss of three wickets in 50 overs. Apart from Sanju Samson, Sachin Baby also played an innings of 127 runs and brought his team to a better position.

In reply, Goa came to bat and scored only 273 runs in 50 overs after losing 8 wickets. Aditya Kaushik scored 58 runs and Tunish Sawkar scored 56 runs. Let us tell you that Kerala won this match by 104 runs.

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