T20 World Cup 2026: India defeated Zimbabwe in their Super-8 match

Updated: 26-02-2026, 05.14 PM

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The Indian cricket team moved towards the semi-finals by defeating the Zimbabwe cricket team by 72 runs in the 48th match of the T20 World Cup 2026. In the match held at MA Chidambaram Stadium, the host team, playing first, scored 256/4, which included half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma (55) and Hardik Pandya (50*). In reply, Zimbabwe team could only score 184/6 after playing the entire over. Let’s look at the records made in the match.

Statement of account

This is how the Indian team won

Sanju Samson (24) and Abhishek (55) gave India a good start. After this, Ishan Kishan (38) and Suryakumar Yadav (33) gave further strength to the innings. In the end, Pandya (50*) and Tilak Verma (44*) took the team’s score beyond 250. In reply, West Indies opener Brian Bennett (97*) played a struggling innings. He could not get good support from the other end. Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets from India.

Abhishek scored his first half-century in the T20 World Cup.

Abhishek took the news seriously of Tinotenda Maphosa who came to bowl the third over of the innings. The Indian opener hit 2 fours and a six in that over. After staying on the crease, he batted at a fast pace and completed his half-century in 26 balls. He along with Sanju Samson (24) made a partnership of 48 runs for the first wicket and 72 runs with Ishan Kishan (38) for the second wicket.

Hardik Pandya scored the 9th half-century of his T-20 international career.

Batting first, India got the third blow in the form of Abhishek Sharma (55) at a total score of 150 runs. After this, Hardik, who came to bat, made a partnership of 20 runs for the fourth wicket with captain Suryakumar Yadav (33) and 84 runs in 31 balls with Tilak Verma (44) for the fifth wicket. He completed his half-century by hitting a six on the last ball of the innings. He hit 2 fours and 4 sixes in 23 balls.

India made its highest score in T20 World Cup

The Indian team made its highest score in T20 World Cup history. Earlier, India’s previous highest score in the T20 World Cup was 218/4 runs, which was made in the match played against England in 2007. India recorded the second highest score in T20 World Cup history. Let us tell you that the record of the highest score in the history of this tournament is in the name of Sri Lanka (260/6 vs Kenya, 2007).

India hit a total of 17 sixes in the innings

A total of 17 sixes were hit in the Indian team’s innings, in which Tilak, Hardik and Abhishek hit the maximum of 4 sixes each. Let us tell you that in the T-20 World Cup, the record of hitting more sixes in an innings than India is held in the name of West Indies and Netherlands. Netherlands had hit 19 sixes against Ireland in 2014. Whereas West Indies had hit only 19 sixes against Zimbabwe in 2026.

Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett played a struggling innings

Bennett batted slowly in the beginning and scored 24 runs in 20 balls. After staying at the crease, he batted aggressively and completed his half-century in 34 balls. This was his third 50+ run innings from his bat in the current tournament. He remained unbeaten after scoring 97 runs in 59 balls with the help of 8 fours and 6 sixes. Meanwhile, he also made a useful partnership of 72 runs with Raza.

Sikandar Raza achieved this feat

Zimbabwe captain Raza scored 31 runs in 21 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Meanwhile he completed his 3,000 runs. With this, he became only the second all-rounder in the world to score 3,000+ runs in batting as well as take 100+ wickets in bowling in T-20 international cricket. Before him, Malaysian all-rounder Virandeep Singh had achieved this feat.

India will play a decisive match with West Indies for the semi-finals

This is India’s first win in the Super-8 stage. Now India has to face West Indies in its last Super-8 match on March 1. The team that wins this match will enter the semi-finals.