Sanju Samson and Marco Jansen’s Heated Confrontation Sparks Controversy in First T20 Match: Suryakumar Yadav Defends Indian Star

Durban – During the first Twenty20 match between South Africa and India, a verbal war took place between Indian player Sanju Samson and South African player Marco Jansen on the ground. The controversy arose when Marco Jansen challenged Sanju taking the ball on the field. Sanju immediately informed captain Suryakumar Yadav and the actor rushed to intervene in the matter. The picture of Surya arguing with Jansen in defense of Sanju and against the South African star’s intervention has also gone viral on social media.

The incident took place in the 15th over when South Africa were battling in pursuit of the target of 203 runs set by India. When Ravi Bishnoi started this over, South Africa needed 102 runs from 36 balls to win. Six by Gerald Kotze off the first ball. A single off the second ball. After Kotse ended a single for long, Yanson switched to Sanju.

As the ball thrown by the fielder bounced out of his hands, Sanju went forward to the pitch and caught the ball. This was questioned by Marco Jansen. During the argument between Sanju and Yansen, Sanju himself brought this to Suriya’s attention. The picture of Suryakumar talking face to face with Yanson who ran away is circulating on social media. It is clear that Surya was expressing her displeasure over Jansan’s unhappiness with Sanju.

At the same time, Kotse, who was standing at the end of those who did not struggle after completing the single, also came here. Seeing that the scene was not a ball, the umpires came running and the fans were curious as to what was happening. Then Suryakumar himself explained the incident to the umpires. The umpires intervened and settled the scene.

Marco Jansen then hit back with a big six off the fourth ball of this, but in the same spot, Hardik Pandya was caught. Although Pandya missed Jansen’s chance at backward point on the fifth ball, Pandya caught him on the next ball and dismissed Jansen.

∙ Super Sanju

Chasing the target of 203 runs set by India in the match, South Africa were bowled out for 141 runs in 17.5 overs. With this, India won by 61 runs. For India who lost the toss and went into bat, Sanju Samson proved once again that he was ‘on another level’ in the opening role with a century that combined arm strength and classic vision. With Sanju’s century (107 off 50 balls) South Africa did not have the strength to fight in front of Team India.

After losing fellow opener Abhishek Sharma (7 off 8 balls) at the start, Sanju, who was solid at one end, was responsible for leading the innings. Captain Suryakumar Yadav (21 off 17 balls), who came third, was only a spectator as Sanju started attacking from the start. Sanju scored 66 runs in 37 balls along with Suriya for the second wicket. Suriya was returned by South African pacer Patrick Kruger but Sanju remained in attack mode.

Tilak Verma (33 from 18 balls), who came fourth, started the attack with Sanju and the South African bowlers were out of the picture. Sanju’s innings has 10 sixes and 7 fours in 50 balls. The South African bowlers, who first returned Tilak and then Sanju, maintained the run rate in the last 5 overs. Gerald Kotze took 3 wickets and conceded 37 runs in 4 overs for the hosts. Sanju Samson is the fourth player to score consecutive centuries in Twenty20 Internationals. Gustave McKeon from France, Riley Russo from South Africa and Phil Salt from England have won this trick before.