India won the series by defeating Sri Lanka by 78 runs in the last match of the 3 match T20 series played in Pune. In this match, young wicket-keeper batsman Sanju Samson got a place in the playing 11 after five years. Samson had been with the team continuously even before this, but he could not get a chance in the last 11. In today's match, Virat Kohli replaced Samson in the team in place of Rishabh Pant. Samson set a big record as he took the field against Sri Lanka.

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According to media reports, wicket-keeper batsman Sanju Samson set a new Indian record of most matches between the two matches with a place in the playing XI. Samson played his only T20 match against Zimbabwe on 19 July 2015 in Harare. He did not get a chance after this. Meanwhile, India played 73 T20 matches and now Samson has got a chance. In this way, India became the most out of matches between two matches.

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Samson, however, could not take advantage of this opportunity and be dismissed for six runs. As soon as he came, he smashed Sadaqan for six on his very first ball. But he was lbw out to Dhananjay De Silva. At the same time, his wait of 4 and a half years ended in just two balls. Earlier, this record was in the name of Umesh Yadav, who did not play 65 T20 matches between 2012 and 2018. He is followed by Dinesh Karthik (56) and Mohammed Shami (43). The world record in this case is in the name of England's Joe Danley, who was out of 79 T20 matches between 2010 and 2018. Liam Plunkett (74) of England is in second place. Sanju Samson scored an innings of 19 runs against Zimbabwe with the help of a four off 24 balls. After this, Sanju Samson did join Team India, but did not get a chance to get on the field. Sanju has consistently performed well at the domestic level.

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