{"id":3951,"date":"2022-06-28T23:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230389"},"modified":"2022-06-28T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:42:23","slug":"ind-v-ire-sanju-samson-gets-his-maiden-t20-half-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-ire-sanju-samson-gets-his-maiden-t20-half-century\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v IRE: Sanju Samson gets his maiden T20 half century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 15th T20I game, 7 years after making his India debut in T20s, Indian batsman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ravi+Bishnoi\">Sanju Samson<\/a> hit his first fifty at the international level in the game\u2019s shortest format.\u00a0Samson scored 77 from 42 balls, his innings was finally ended in the 17th over by Mark Adair.<\/p>\n<p>In just 31 balls during the second T20I game against Ireland at The Village in Dublin, Samson achieved his first fifty. Samson had a 160\u00a0strike rate with 1 six and 8 boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Sanju Samson\u00a0who made his debut in 2015, has struggled to replicate his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">IPL<\/a> success at the international level. Samson managed to score only 174 runs at an average of 14.50 before this game in 14 T20Is. In the run-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=T20+World+Cup\">T20 World Cup<\/a>, Sanju, who is back in the mix, is in a try making situation as the race for wicketkeeper and top-order positions is heating up.<\/p>\n<p>Right before the toss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> predicted favourable conditions for batting. As India aims to test its bench strength, Sanju Samson took the position of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya\">Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Harshal+Patel\">Harshal Patel<\/a> took the place of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Harshal+Patel\">Avesh Khan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Avesh+Khan\">Ravi Bishnoi<\/a> was added in lieu of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Yuzvendra+Chahal\">Yuzvendra Chahal<\/a>. The visitors, who are at 1-0 in the two-match series, would like to sweep the series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maiden T20I FIFTY for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamSanjuSamson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IamSanjuSamson<\/a> \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Live \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Ix0a6dXCj\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Ix0a6dXCj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IREvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IREvIND<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMk8NoNowx\">pic.twitter.com\/BMk8NoNowx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1541821042334760967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second T20I against Ireland, Deepak Hooda and Sanju Samson looked impressive as India amassed a magnificent 227\/7 after 20 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3339,629,2826],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ind-v-ire","tag-sanju-samson","tag-t20-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}