Samson wasn’t a part of the Zimbabwe series, where Sooryavanshi emerged as the Player of the tournament, while against England, Abhishek paired with Samson and the 15-year-old in different matches. The Indian cricket team has three top-quality openers – Abhishek Sharma , Sanju Samson and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi – available for the upcoming T20I series against Afghanistan.
It’s not a bad idea to even try and see what kind of combination Sanju and Vaibhav can make,” Dasgupta said on his YouTube channel. To clarify his suggestion, Dasgupta said that he is not asking the management to drop Abhishek, but rather, just try another combination as the team looks to solidify its plans in the shortest format going forward. As the Afghanistan series begins, former India cricketer Deep Dasgupta has urged the Gautam Gambhir -led team management to give an opportunity to the pairing of Sooryavanshi and Samson at the top of the batting order. “Straight away, if you think about the last match (England T20Is), it was Sanju and Abhishek. Leave Zimbabwe aside. When all three were available, Sanju and Abhishek were there. I think we haven’t seen the Sanju-Vaibhav combination yet. So far, we’ve seen Abhishek-Vaibhav and Abhishek-Sanju, right? “Again, I’m not saying, please don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about dropping anyone here.
I’m just saying, reiterating again, that the idea is that before the World Cup, you want to give every combination and every individual a proper chance and proper game time to understand what works,” he added.
