Sanju Samson is performing well in IPL 2024. Sanju was careful not to let the pressure of captaincy affect his performance even once. Sanju, a seasoned team man, is swinging the bat for the team more than his own achievements this time.
The fans also witnessed the star’s selfless innings in the match against Delhi Capitals. Sanju scored 86 runs off 46 balls. Sanju had to be dismissed due to a controversial decision by the third umpire, despite impressing with his fourth century in his IPL career.
This was his fifth half-century of the season against the Capitals. Earlier, Sanju scored half-centuries in both matches against Lucknow Super Giants (82*, 71*) and this season, Sanju scored half-centuries against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (69) and Gujarat Titans (68*).
This is the first time in his IPL career that Sanju has completed five fifties in a season. Sanju has 25 fifties in his IPL career so far.
Half Centuries Scored by Sanju Samson In Every Season
2013 – 1
2014 – 2
2015 – 1
2016 – 1
2017 – 2
2018 – 3
2019 – 0
2020 – 3
2021 – 2
2022 – 2
2023 – 3
2024 – 5*
So far this season, Sanju has scored 471 runs from 11 innings at an average of 67.29 and a strike rate of 163.54. The player produced a career best performance in the IPL.
If he manages to score 14 more runs in the remaining games of this season, Sanju can also surpass his record of most runs in an IPL season. The highest score by a Rajasthan captain in a season is 484 in 2021.
Sanju also achieved another record in the last game. Sanju became the fastest player to hit 200 IPL sixes in terms of innings played.
Fastest player to hit 200 sixes in IPL (Innings wise)
(Star – Innings taken to complete 200 sixes in a row)
Sanju Samson – 159*
MS. Dhoni – 165
Virat Kohli – 180
Rohit Sharma – 185
Suresh Raina – 193
On the strength of his six sixes in the last game, Sanju became ninth in the list of players who have scored the most sixes in the IPL.
Players with most sixes in IPL
(In order of Star – Six)
Chris Gayle – 357
Rohit Sharma – 276
Virat Kohli – 258
AB De Villiers – 251
MS. Dhoni – 248
David Warner – 236
Kieron Pollard – 223
Andre Russell – 207
Sanju Samson – 205*
Suresh Raina – 202
Despite losing the last match, Rajasthan Royals are still in the second position. The team currently has 16 points from 11 games with eight wins and three losses.
Rajasthan’s next match is on May 12. The home team Chennai Super Kings will be the opponents in the match at Chepauk.
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