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Highest Partnership For India T20 World Cup Knockout Match: In the semi-final match of T20 World Cup 2026, Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan have destroyed a 19-year-old record. The semi-final match between India and England is being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, there was a partnership of 97 runs between Samson and Ishaan, which is the biggest partnership for India in the knockout match of T20 World Cup. He has broken the records of Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa.
19 year old record broken
Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa made a partnership of 84 runs against Australia in the semi-final match of the 2007 T20 World Cup. Yuvraj and Uthappa had added 84 runs in just 39 balls. This was the biggest partnership for India in a knockout match of the T20 World Cup so far.
Now after 19 years, Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan have broken this record by making a partnership of 97 runs. Samson and Kishan made a partnership of 97 runs in 45 balls. Ishaan was out after scoring 39 runs in 18 balls, while Samson completed his fifty in 26 balls in the semi-final match against England.
India batting first
In the semi-final match being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, England won the toss and invited the Indian team to bat first. Abhishek Sharma also flopped in this big and important match, where he was out after scoring only 9 runs. Despite this, due to the stormy batting of Samson and Ishaan, India scored 67 runs in the powerplay itself.
Samson scored a fifty for the second consecutive match. Earlier, Samson had played a match-winning inning of 97 runs in the Super-8 match against West Indies. Now he scored a half-century in the semi-final against England also. In the first 10 overs, India scored 119 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.
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