India, Sept. 16 -- When the noise gets too much, Sanju Samson just switches off the Wi-Fi. Sometimes, though, it switches itself back on. He knows there is no escaping the noise that comes with playing for India, particularly when runs are hard to come by and every place in the XI is contested.

However, after smashing 57 off 22 balls against Afghanistan in the second T20I on Monday, Samson said the key was not pretending the outside chatter affected him, but learning how to deal with it.

"I try to switch the Wi-Fi off. But sometimes the Wi-Fi gets switched on and comments become visible," Samson told reporters after his knock. "I'm not a machine, actually. We are not robots that we can say, 'No, it doesn't affect me.' Definitely, it aff...