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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 blazing start with 89 runs off just 45 balls. The wicketkeeper batter once again set the tone at the top, attacking from the outset and keeping the pressure firmly on the opposition bowlers.Samson’s latest effort also helped India script a unique record in T20 World Cup history. For the first time ever, the top three batters in a team’s innings all crossed the 50-run mark in the same match. It highlighted the dominance of India’s batting line up on the biggest stage of the tournament.The 31 year old has also rewritten the record books with his six hitting this edition. Samson now holds the record for the most sixes in a single T20 World Cup campaign with 24, surpassing Finn Allen who had struck 20 sixes in an earlier edition.His 89 in the final has also gone 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.Samson’s consistency has been one of the standout stories of the tournament. He also joined an elite list of players who have scored half centuries in both the semi final and the final of a 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 batter has also equalled another notable record for consecutive fifty plus scores in the tournament. Samson now has three successive scores of 50 or more in a T20 World Cup, placing 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-scoring Indian in a single edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. 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 playing eleven at the start of the competition and featured in only five matches during the campaign.
