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In-form India opener Sanju Samson figured successful the eight-man shortlist for the T20 World Cup Player of the Tournament announced by the ICC connected Friday (March 6, 2026).
The different nominees are England all-rounder Will Jacks, Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan, South Africa's pacer Lungi Ngidi and skipper Aiden Markram, New Zealand's all-rounder Rachin Ravindra and batter Tim Seifert, and American bowler Shadley van Schalkwyk.
Samson, who did not play successful the aboriginal portion of the tournament, lit up the T20 World Cup with consecutive player-of-the-match performances.
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The opener smacked a 42-ball 89 against England successful the semifinals to beryllium the leader of India's seven-run triumph connected Thursday. Before that, his 50-ball 97 laid the instauration of the defending champions' five-wicket triumph implicit the West Indies successful a virtual quarterfinal.
The wicketkeeper-batter has truthful acold amassed 232 runs astatine an mean of 77.33 and a onslaught complaint of 201.73 successful 4 matches that helium had played successful the tournament.
Jacks has been instrumental successful his squad winning six of their 8 matches astatine the T20 World Cup. He won 4 player-of-the-match honours, and has scored 226 runs and picked up 9 wickets from 8 matches.
Farhan made 383 runs successful six innings to grounds the astir runs scored successful a azygous variation of a T20 World Cup. He besides became the archetypal subordinate to people 2 centuries astatine a azygous variation of the tourney arsenic helium scored a 100 each against Sri Lanka and Namibia.
With 12 wickets from 7 matches astatine an system complaint of 7.19, Ngidi proved to beryllium the captious cog successful South Africa's gait artillery and was their astir accordant accelerated bowler.
South Africa skipper Markram was cardinal to Proteas' performances astatine this T20 World Cup, with the right-hander compiling 3 half-centuries crossed 8 matches, amassing 286 runs and besides picked up a wicket.
New Zealand all-rounder Ravindra has proved invaluable for his broadside with some bat and ball, scoring 128 runs and scalping 11 wickets from 8 matches.
Even though the USA exited aft the opening radical stage, van Schalkwyk acceptable the benchmark for bowlers astatine this T20 World Cup. In conscionable 4 matches, the American pacer claimed 13 wickets from 4 matches astatine a respectable system complaint of 6.80.
Wicketkeeper-batter Seifert has played a large portion successful New Zealand's tally to the T20 World Cup decider, with the right-hander having amassed 274 runs crossed 8 matches with a full of 8 half-centuries.
India volition instrumentality connected New Zealand successful the acme clash successful Ahmedabad connected Sunday.
