T20 World Cup 2026: India beats South Africa in warm-up match

Updated: 04-02-2026, 06.07 PM

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The Indian cricket team defeated the South African cricket team by 30 runs in the warm-up match before the T20 World Cup 2026. In the match held in Navi Mumbai, India batted first and scored 240/6, in which Ishan Kishan scored a half-century (53). In reply, the South African team could only score 210/7 after playing the entire over. Let us know in detail about the warm-up match.

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This is how the Indian team won

Kishan (53) and Abhishek Sharma (24), who came to open the innings from India, gave a good start. After this, Tilak Verma (45), captain Suryakumar Yadav (30), Akshar Patel (35) and Hardik Pandya (30) made useful contributions and took the team to a big score. Chasing the challenging target, South Africa’s Aiden Markram (38), Ryan Rickleton (44), Jason Smith (35) and Tristan Stubbs (45*) played good innings, but could not win.

Ishan Kishan scored a half century

In the warm-up match, Kishan started the innings for India and scored a half-century. He played an inning of 53 runs in 20 balls with the help of 2 fours and 7 sixes. He retired and returned to the pavilion. Along with Abhishek, he added 80 runs in just 34 balls for the first wicket. Abhishek retired after scoring 24 runs facing 18 balls.

Tilak Verma made a good comeback

Tilak Verma, who came to bat at number 3, looked in good form. He was out after scoring 45 runs in 19 balls with the help of 3 fours and as many sixes. He has also recently played a warm-up match with the India A team. He scored 38 runs on 24 balls in that match against America. During this innings, he hit 3 fours and 2 sixes.

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India’s bowling was like this

Arshdeep Singh completed his 4 overs, in which he took 1 wicket while giving 29 runs. Shivam Dubey took 1 wicket while giving 57 runs in his 4 overs. Kuldeep Yadav gave 25 runs in 2 overs. He could not take any wicket. Hardik Pandya gave 28 runs in his 2 overs without taking any wicket. Varun Chakraborty took 1 wicket in his name. India used a total of 9 bowlers.

Indian team will play its first match against America

Under the leadership of Suryakumar, the Indian team will start its campaign against America in the T20 World Cup 2026. This match will be played at Wankhede Stadium.