{"id":138816,"date":"2026-03-08T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=138816"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:09:33","slug":"sanju-samson-wins-player-of-the-tournament-for-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=138816","title":{"rendered":"Sanju Samson wins Player of the Tournament for T20 World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70719714\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Sanju Samson was declared the Player of the Tournament for the T20 World Cup 2026 after the final between India and New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old ended the tournament with 321 runs from five innings and was India\u2019s highest scorer. He becomes just the third Indian to win the award after Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah.<\/p>\n<p>The Kerala batter also completed his remarkable turnaround story that saw him get dropped from the lineup before getting his place back and delivering at the top.<\/p>\n<p>He started with an unbeaten 97 against West Indies in the must-win Super Eight match against West Indies. He scored 89 runs in the semifinal and the final.<\/p>\n<p>He also became India\u2019s highest run-scorer in a single edition of the T20 World Cup, overtaking Kohli\u2019s record of 319 runs from 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Mar 08, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/sanju-samson-player-of-the-tournament-award-t20-world-cup-2026-india-vs-new-zealand-final\/article70719714.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanju Samson was declared the Player of the Tournament for the T20 World Cup 2026 after the final between India and New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The 31-year-old ended the tournament with 321 runs from five innings and was India\u2019s highest scorer. He becomes just the third Indian to win the award after Virat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VIS_3628.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-A6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}