SL vs IND | Twitter reacts to Samson’s nightmare outing as consecutive ducks follows catching botch

Following an early setback with the cost of four wickets inside the powerplay, the Indian middle order struggled to post a formidable total on the board. However, handy contributions from Riyan Parag, Shubman Gill, and Washington Sundar steered India to 137/9 in the first innings before the Sri Lankan openers got off to a stable start in the second innings. The Men in Blue had a disastrous day in the field with Samson’s nightmare-like day epitomizing the effect.

With the Sri Lankan pair of Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis withstanding against the new ball watchfully, Siraj created a chance on the fifth ball of the sixth ball, that went begging, courtesy of Samson’s poor glovework. The right-arm quick bowled a good length delivery from over the wicket around the fourth stump that jagged a shade away to kiss the outside edge of Mendis en route to the keeper. Samson failed to grab the ball to his right, dropping a dolly. 

India was yearning to get a breakthrough but the dropped catch from the Kerala-based individual turned out costly for them with Mendis setting up the chase calculatively. Earlier, Samson was dismissed for a four-ball duck, on the back of a golden duck in their latest game, and a few more glovework botches added to the woes as the innings progressed. On a general day, he would’ve fancied to get the job done as wicketkeeper but the Twitterverse was left abuzz on the 29-year-old’s nightmare outing.

Dropped it

Not same

Again

Not performing well

Need a comeback

Back to back

Come back

Bad day

Nothing going right

Lost it