India batter Sanju Samson said the message from the captain, Suryakumar Yadav, and coach Gautam Gambhir in the T20 World Cup 2026 was that "the team should come first and individual milestones second". "That's how we started reacting in every game," he added. Samson notably scored 97* in the Super 8 and 89 in both the semi-final and final.