These players got lottery in T20 World Cup 2026 team, despite winning, ICC did not choose captain from India

T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament: The Indian team won the title of T20 World Cup 2026. India captured this trophy for the third time by defeating New Zealand by 96 runs. With this, the Indian team has become the first team to win the T20 World Cup title twice consecutively. The dominance of the Indian team that won the T20 World Cup is now visible in the ICC tournament team as well.

As soon as the T20 World Cup 2026 ends, the International Cricket Council has announced the T20 World Cup 2026 Team of the Tournament. 4 players from India have been included in this team. Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah have been selected from India. However, despite having 4 players, Indian players have not been made captain. Captain Aidan Markram was appointed.

Apart from this, South Africa’s Aiden Markram, Enrique Norkhia, Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan, England’s Will Jacques and Adil Rashid have been included. Whereas Jason Holder of West Indies and Blessing Muzarabani of Zimbabwe have been included in the playing. Shadley Van Schalkwyk of USA has been given the place of 12th player.

Sanju Samson did a big feat in T20 World Cup

of the tournament ‘Player of the Tournament‘ Sanju Samson played an important role in making the Indian team the winner by scoring 321 runs in five innings. The interesting thing in this was that he had to remain out of the playing-11 in the opening match of the tournament. After this, he came back and batted brilliantly in ‘do or die’ matches against West Indies and England and won the ‘Player of the Match’ award. His innings of 89 against New Zealand in the final also became the highest individual score in the history of the Men’s T20 World Cup final.

Kishan’s strong performance

Ishaan Also batted brilliantly throughout the tournament. He remained fourth in the list of highest run scorers with 317 runs. He strengthened the team’s top order by batting at a strike rate of 193.29. He gave a strong start to the team by playing an innings of 77 runs against Pakistan, while he also scored half-centuries against England in the semi-finals and New Zealand in the finals.

Bumrah and Pandya shine

hardik pandya Got a place in the team for his excellent performance with both bat and ball. He scored two half-centuries, including a quickfire 52 off 28 balls against Namibia. Apart from this, he also contributed in bowling and took nine wickets. Jasprit Bumrah was given the Man of the Match award in the final for his excellent bowling. Bumrah took 14 wickets in eight matches throughout the tournament and was the joint-highest wicket-taker. In the final, he took four wickets for 15 runs, while his economy in the entire tournament was 6.21.

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Farhan became the highest run scoring batsman

Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan was the highest run-scorer in the tournament. He scored 383 runs and his average was 76.60. His innings also included two centuries against Sri Lanka and Namibia. Farhan made many records in his name during this period.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 squad

Sahibzada Farhan, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan, Aiden Markram (c), Hardik Pandya, Will Jacques, Jason Holder, Jasprit Bumrah, Lungi Ngidi, Adil Rashid, Blessing Muzarabani, Shadley van Schalkwyk.