Ishan Kishan Scored Explosive Half Century In T20 World Cup Warm Up Match: Team India has started its preparations for the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. Team India faced South Africa last night i.e. on 4 February in its warm-up match of the T20 World Cup. In this match, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan took the responsibility of opening for Team India. Kishan replaced Sanju Samson as the opener in this match. Ishan is in amazing form before coming to the T20 World Cup and he continued his excellent form in the warm-up match against South Africa also. He batted brilliantly in this match and scored a half-century.

Ishan Kishan’s explosive batting

Ishan Kishan, who came to open in place of Sanju Samson in the warm-up match against South Africa, has strongly presented his claim to the selectors with his explosive batting. This left-handed wicketkeeper batsman played a strong inning of 53 runs in just 20 balls, in which he hit only 2 fours and 7 skyscraper sixes. Recently, Kishan also performed well in the 5-match T20 series against New Zealand.

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Kishan had attacked from the very first over

Ishan Kishan started the Indian innings brilliantly. He opened his account by hitting a six off Lungi Ngidi on the very second ball of the innings. Ishaan’s aggressive form was seen in the fifth over, when he scored 6, 6, 4 and 6 consecutive runs on the last four balls of Enrique Norcia’s over, making a total of 22 runs. After this, he completed his half-century in just 20 balls by hitting Kwena Mafaka for a six on the fourth ball of the sixth over. This inning of his has indicated that he is absolutely ready to open with Abhishek in the World Cup.