After the match on Friday, Samson gave an insight into his aggressive approach while batting in T20Is. "I trust my shot-making ability and approach each ball with an attacking mindset, especially in T20Is. With this approach, there is success and failure as well - there are a lot of questions around me building the innings and consistency."

Sanju Samson's wife Charulatha reacted to her husband's scintillating hundred vs South Africa in Durban. She took to Instagram and captioned her story, "My forever favourite hero" alongside Samson's picture.

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.

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.

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.