Overview

• Samson scored 24 from 21 balls in the Asia Cup final, departing off Abrar Ahmed with a catch taken by Sahibzada Farhan after India had slipped to 20 for 3.
• He entered the final on 969 T20I runs after a Super Four 39 off 23 against Sri Lanka, leaving him 31 short of 1,000 and he did not reach the mark in the decider.
• The Sri Lanka knock, played at No. 5, earned Samson the tournament’s ‘Impact Player’ medal, which the BCCI highlighted in a post-match video.
• Across the tournament he tallied 108 runs in three pre-final innings, including a 56 against Oman, while adapting across middle-order roles rather than opening.
• Samson already surpassed Gautam Gambhir on India’s T20I runs list and leads Indian wicketkeepers for T20I sixes with 55, but his final score fell short of the 64 needed to eclipse Rishabh Pant’s multi-nation tournament mark.