India vs Zimbabwe Highlights: India has defeated Zimbabwe by 72 runs. With this victory, Team India has kept its semi-final hopes intact. With India’s win, South Africa has qualified for the semi-finals. In this match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, India batted first and scored a historic score of 256 runs. In reply, Zimbabwe team could score only 184 runs. Brian Bennett definitely scored a century but could not take his team to victory.

In this match, Zimbabwe won the toss and invited Team India to bat first. This time Sanju Samson got a chance in the playing eleven, who was out after scoring 24 runs. Abhishek Sharma, who was continuously flopping, finally stole the show by scoring a half-century of 55 runs. Hardik Pandya played a stormy inning of 50 runs and Tilak Verma also played a stormy inning of 44 runs. Earlier, India had made the highest score of 2026 T20 World Cup and second highest score in T20 World Cup history.

Is Team India in the semi-finals?

With this 79-run win against Zimbabwe, India has not reached the semi-finals. But his path to the semi-finals has definitely become easier to some extent. When Zimbabwe came to chase the record target of 257 runs, Brian Bennett showed his fighting spirit and played a strong inning of 88 runs. Bennett remained at the crease from beginning to end. Brian Bennett hit 8 fours and 6 sixes in his innings of 97 runs.

Zimbabwe is now out of the World Cup. In bowling, Arshdeep Singh took the most wickets for India, who took 3 wickets. Whereas Varun Chakraborty, Shivam Dubey and Akshar Patel were successful in taking one wicket each.

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