Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is completely ready for the final of the 2026 T20 World Cup. The title clash between India and New Zealand will begin in some time. Team India would like to create history and win the World Cup title for the second consecutive time. India has become T20 World Cup champion twice so far. However, Team India’s record in ICC tournaments is not good in front of New Zealand.

India has reached the final of the ICC T20 World Cup for the fourth time and New Zealand for the second time. India became champion twice before and once lost to Sri Lanka in the final. Whereas New Zealand has played the final only once and it lost in the title match. Now the Kiwi team is going to play the final for the second time. India had defeated England in the semi-finals, while New Zealand had defeated a strong team like South Africa in the semi-finals.

Narendra Modi Stadium pitch report

The pitch of Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is suitable for the batsmen. Even today a high scoring match is expected here. There is a pitch of red soil, on which there will be light grass. India has no better chance than this to break the losing streak against New Zealand in the T20 World Cup. The team winning the toss can decide to bat first, because there will be pressure to chase in the final, and there will be no effect of dew.

live streaming details

You can watch the final match between India and New Zealand live on TV on the channels of Star Sports Network. Whereas on mobile the match will come live on Jiostar app. You will be able to enjoy the title match in many languages.

India’s probable playing eleven – Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh.

New Zealand’s probable playing XI – Tim Seifert (wicketkeeper), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner (captain), Cole McConchie, Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson.

India vs New Zealand 4th T20 Highlights: New Zealand has defeated India by 50 runs in the fourth T20 match. This match was played in Visakhapatnam, in which Team India won the toss and chose to bowl first. Batting first, the New Zealand team scored 215 runs. In response, Team India was all out on the score of 165.

Team India, which set out to chase the target of 216 runs, had a very bad start. Abhishek Sharma was out on the very first ball of the innings. Everyone’s eyes were on Sanju Samson in this match, he also got the start, but New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner clean bowled him on the score of 24.

This time Rinku Singh, who usually comes to bat at the sixth and seventh positions. This time he was promoted to number 4. Rinku Singh played a steady inning of 39 runs in 30 balls. But his innings played with an average strike rate of 130 proved insufficient to give victory to Team India.

Shivam Dubey’s fifty did not work

The Indian team had lost 4 wickets till the score of 63 runs. At this time, Shivam Dubey came to bat, who started hitting shots in a fast manner and created history by scoring fifty in 15 balls. He became the third fastest batsman to score a half-century for India in the history of international T20 cricket. Abhishek Sharma and Yuvraj Singh are ahead of him. Dubey played a stormy inning of 65 runs in 23 balls.

For New Zealand, captain Mitchell Santner especially worked to turn the match in his team’s favor. He took 3 wickets for just 26 runs in 4 overs. Santner took the wickets of Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah. After four matches, Team India is now leading 3-1 in this series.

In the fourth T20 match, New Zealand batted first and scored 215 runs. This match is being played in Visakhapatnam, in which Tim Seifert was the only batsman to score a fifty for the Kiwi team. He played a stormy inning of 62 runs in 36 balls. Team India’s bowlers gave away a lot of runs. Harshit Rana gave away more than 50 runs. In this match, the Indian team won the toss and chose to bowl first.

Tim Seifert and Devon Conway gave a bright start to New Zealand, together they scored 71 runs in the powerplay. This is New Zealand’s biggest score in powerplay against India in T20 cricket. Tim Seifert, who started hitting fours and sixes in no time, completed his half-century in just 25 balls. Seifert scored 62 runs in 36 balls. In this innings he hit 7 fours and 3 sixes.

In the middle overs, New Zealand lost 4 wickets in just 37 runs, but the team’s tremendous run rate remained intact. Meanwhile, Daryl Mitchell came and scored 39 runs in 18 balls. He hit 2 fours and 3 sixes in his innings. He played an important role in taking New Zealand beyond 200.

Harshit Rana lost 54 runs

Harshit Rana proved to be the most expensive bowler for the Indian team. He did not take any wicket in 4 overs and also gave away 54 runs. At the same time, Ravi Bishnoi also proved to be very expensive, who took one wicket but gave away 49 runs. Even Jasprit Bumrah gave away runs at an economy rate of 9.50.

The most successful bowler for Team India was Arshdeep Singh, who took 2 wickets for 33 runs in 4 overs. Kuldeep Yadav also dismissed 2 New Zealand batsmen.

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India vs New Zealand Highlights: India has lost to New Zealand by 7 wickets in the second ODI. With this, New Zealand is tied at one point each in the 3 ODI series. The century innings of Daryl Mitchell was heavy on the entire Indian team. In this ODI match played in Rajkot, Team India batted first and scored 284 runs. In reply, the Kiwi team achieved this target in the 48th over itself.

After losing the toss in this match, the Indian team was invited to bat first. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli got the start, but could not play big innings. Whereas captain Shubman Gill played an inning of 56 runs. Shreyas Iyer also flopped in this match, but KL Rahul single-handedly helped Team India reach the score of 284 by scoring unbeaten 112 runs. This was Rahul’s 8th century in his ODI career.

Daryl Mitchell snatched victory

Even before reaching the score of 50, the New Zealand team had lost 2 wickets. At that time, the Indian team needed to take wickets by continuously putting pressure on the Kiwi team, but in the heavy pressure situation, Daryl Mitchell and Will Young made a partnership of 162 runs. This partnership made a huge difference in the match. Will Young was out after scoring 87 runs, but Daryl Mitchell held the other end. He scored 131 runs in 117 balls, in this innings he hit 11 fours and 2 sixes.

Kuldeep Yadav in particular proved to be very expensive for India. He did take one wicket, but gave away 82 runs in 10 overs. Apart from him, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana were able to take one wicket each. Both the teams are now tied each in the ODI series and the series winner will be decided on January 18 in Indore.