Sanju Samson is quietly building a case to become India’s greatest T20I wicketkeeper-batter in multi-nation tournaments, and the Asia Cup final against Pakistan could be the perfect stage for him to make history. So far in the tournament, Samson has scored 108 runs in three innings at an average of 36 and a strike rate of 127.05, including a fifty against Oman. While he has mostly batted in the middle order—slotting in at number three, five, and eight—he has shown he can adapt to any position, even when India’s vice-captain Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma occupy the top spots. If Samson adds just 64 more runs in the final, he would surpass Rishabh Pant ’s record for the best T20I multi-nation tournament by an Indian wicketkeeper-batter. Pant had scored 171 runs in eight innings

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