Mumbai, Aug. 29 -- India's T20 World Cup-winning skipper Suryakumar Yadav opened up on his conversations with Sanju Samson as he sat on the sidelines battling with form during the first half of this year's T20 World Cup and how he saw opener Abhishek Sharma as a player who would win him his first ICC tournament as a captain.

Suryakumar Yadav was speaking to Aakash Chopra on his YouTube channel.

Speaking about Samson, who had been dropped from the side during the first half of the tournament after managing just 46 runs in five innings against New Zealand, and Ishan Kishan had taken his place as a top-choice opener/wicketkeeper-batter, Suryakumar said that he informed Sanju that it would be difficult keeping him in the line-up and Samson ...