Samson's 57 off 22 establishes his role of preferred opener as India seal series

NEW DELHI: It's not easy being Sanju Samson. He has been forever walking the line in his 10-year-old international career, partly because of team dynamics and mostly because of his unignorable inconsistency. As he has often done in his career when pushed to a corner, he served a reminder on Tuesday night in the second T20I against Afghanistan why it's difficult to dismiss his potential in T20 cricket.In a matter of seven overs, after the Indian bowlers expectedly restricted Afghanistan to a modest 159/8 on evidently sluggish pitch, Samson buried the ghosts of the Ireland and England tour with 57 off 22 balls in a cold and merciless spell of ball-striking.