If intent was what India needed in their chase of 196, Sanju Samson showed enough to prove his class on the big stage. It was mainly because of his hunger for runs that India managed to dismiss the threat posed by the West Indies atta­ck. Tactical mistakeThe West Indies’ ploy to open the attack with Hosein didn’t pay off even as Abhishek Sharma struggled with his timing and Suryakumar Yadav wasn’t in his elements. Also Read Return of the Eden vibe, familiar feel prevails during India and West Indies matchBut all that didn’t matter to Samson. It was Samson’s night, but Pandya’s passionate plea a day earlier seems to have turned the team on.

Source: The Telegraph March 02, 2026 05:05 UTC