Sanju Samson of India (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Sanju Samson continued his remarkable run in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 with another stunning knock in the final, giving India a sensational start with 89 runs off just 45 balls. The wicket-keeper batsman once again set the tone at the top, attacking from the start and keeping the pressure firmly on the opposition bowlers.Samson’s latest feat also helped India create a unique record in the history of the T20 World Cup. For the first time ever, the top three batsmen in a team’s innings crossed the 50-run mark in the same match. It highlighted the dominance of the Indian batting line-up on the biggest stage of the tournament.The 31-year-old also rewrote the record books with his six-strikes in this edition. Samson now holds the record for sixes in a single T20 World Cup campaign with 24, surpassing Finn Allen who hit 20 sixes in the earlier edition.His 89 in the final also went down as the highest individual score in a T20 World Cup final. The Indian star surpassed the previous best of 85 not out by Marlon Samuels in 2016 and 85 by Kane Williamson in 2021.
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Samson’s consistency has been one of the standout stories of the tournament. He also joined the elite list of players who have scored half-centuries in both the semi-finals and finals of the T20 World Cup. Only Shahid Afridi in 2009 and Virat Kohli in 2014 had previously achieved the feat before Samson added his name to the list in 2026.The Indian batsman also equaled another remarkable record of consecutive fifty-plus scores in the tournament. Samson now has three consecutive scores of 50 or more in the T20 World Cup, putting him alongside some of the most consistent performers in the format.The list includes Mahela Jayawardene who achieved it in 2010, Virat Kohli who did so between 2016 and 2021, Babar Azam in 2021, KL Rahul in 2021 and two other players in the current edition, Kusal Mendis and Sahibzada Farhan.Sanju Samson also etched his name in the record books by becoming the highest run-scorer by an Indian in a single edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. In doing so, he surpassed Virat Kohli’s long-standing record of 319 runs, which was set during the 2014 tournament.What makes Samson’s achievement even more remarkable is that he was not part of India’s XI at the start of the competition, appearing in just five matches during the campaign.
