IND vs ZIM: The Indian team has kept itself in the race for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2026 by defeating Zimbabwe by 72 runs in the Super-8. Batting first in this match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Team India scored a huge score of 256 runs. In reply, West Indies team could score only 184 runs for 6 wickets. With this defeat, Zimbabwe is out of the T20 World Cup 2026.
Zimbabwe had a slow start
Zimbabwe, which came to chase the target of 257 runs given by India, had a slow start and got the first blow at the score of 44 runs. Diwanashe Marumani was played by Akshar Patel. Divanashe Marumani was out after scoring 20 runs in 20 balls. After this, Varun Chakraborty dismissed Dion Myers on a personal score of 6 runs.
After this, Zimbabwe lost the fourth wicket with the score of 144 runs. Arshdeep Singh gave 2 blows to Zimbabwe in a single over. He first sent captain Sikandar Raza to the pavilion on the score of 31 runs. after this Made Ryan Burl his victim. Ryan Burl could not even open an account.
Brian Bennett missed the historic century
Brian Bennett fought till the end, but could not single-handedly lead the team to victory. Brian Bennett also missed a historic century. Brian Bennett played an unbeaten inning of 97 runs in 59 balls. During this, 8 fours and 6 sixes came from his bat.
Team India’s batting was like this
Team India, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored a huge score of 256 runs for 4 wickets, which is the second highest total score in the history of T20 World Cup. Abhishek Sharma played an inning of 55 runs. Hardik Pandya scored unbeaten 50 runs. Whereas Tilak Verma played a stormy inning of 44 unbeaten runs in 16 balls. Ishan Kishan (38), captain Suryakumar Yadav (33) and Sanju Samson (24) scored runs.
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India and West Indies match will be knockout
With the defeat, Zimbabwe is out of the T20 World Cup 2026. Whereas South Africa has qualified for the semi-finals. Now who will be the second team to reach the semi-finals from Group-1 will be decided on March 1 by the match between India and West Indies. This match of both the teams will be a knockout match.
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