“He missed out the first couple of games, didn’t he? All of a sudden there was a massive panic that what has CSK done,” Finch said on ESPNcricinfo’s TimeOut show. “They’ve got Sanju Samson and he’s not performing. Two games in T20 is nothing. To go right through a season ultra-consistent is so difficult. You probably can’t underestimate the pressure on somebody going into a team like CSK. Being a huge marquee signing particularly when you have traded someone like Jadeja out of the side as well.
“Although he [Samson] had a dream run at the end of the World Cup and then he’s come in [at CSK] and missed out a couple of times, there will still be some pride and pressure and almost some feeling that you can tend to overplay it slightly in your own head that you want to get to a new franchise and really lay down a marker and say ‘I’m here’ and this is what you’re traded for and the superstar that you’ve been crying out for. So, the fact that he’s batting on a different level is great to see.”
“This is the version of Sanju Samson we’ve been wanting to see for quite a few years now,” Dasgupta said. “So, every season you see couple of those innings and go ‘wow, what a player!’ but then would only end up being those couple of innings but now starting from the World Cup onwards, he’s been so consistent and [in] this season well, this is the only fifty he’s got. Every time he goes past fifty, he gets a hundred and he stays not out. Again, he stays not out on 87, brilliant innings. It just seemed like he was playing on a different surface.”