On the back of a brilliant hundred, Samson made it to the elite list of batters who have made multiple tons as he joined the likes of Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, and KL Rahul.

Former South African captain AB de Villiers wants Indian wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson to be included in India's all formats team. Samson has been in outstanding form, recently scoring back-to-back T20I centuries.

Before the match against SA, Samson had also hit a ton during the third and last T20I against Bangladesh at home - he his only the fourth player in the history to hit back-to-back T20I centuries.