Ahead of the Asia Cup 2025 clash against arch-rivals, Pakistan, Team India`s Sanju Samson is just 83 runs shy of completing 1,000 for the side in T20 Internationals

If Sanju manages to achieve this feat against the "Green Shirts", he will then become the 12th batsman to do so for the "Men in Blue"

So far, he has played 45 T20I matches and has garnered 917 runs for India. He also has three half-centuries and the same number of centuries in the format

This year in eight T20Is and six innings, Samson has scored 107 runs at an average of just 17.83 and a strike rate of 121.59

The top run-getter for India in T20Is is Rohit Sharma, with 4,231 runs in 159 innings at an average of 32.05 and a strike rate of 140.89, with five centuries and 32 fifties. His best score is an unbeaten 121 runs