Mumbai, July 27 -- Indian wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson spoke on the self-belief and confidence he carried ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup semifinal against England, where he had to battle a troubling adversary, pacer Jofra Archer. The wicketkeeper-batter said that despite his past failures against Jofra, he had a lot of "self-validation" and was very sure that he was going to win the match for his country.

Ahead of the T20 WC semifinal against England, a massive Jofra Archer test awaited Sanju. With his morale and stocks rising high with an unbeaten 97* against West Indies in the quarterfinal, Sanju was going to come face-to-face with the English pace spearhead who had dismissed him thrice previously. On the other side at the non-stri...