India Qualified For Semi Final T20 World Cup: India has defeated West Indies by 5 wickets. After South Africa, England and New Zealand, India has become the fourth and last country to reach the semi-finals. Team India has also made a world record for the largest successful run chase in T20 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. West Indies had scored 195 runs while playing first, in reply the Indian team achieved this target with 4 balls remaining. This is the sixth time in the history of T20 World Cup that India has made it to the semi-finals.

When Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan proved to be flops, Sanju Samson took charge and played a historic inning of 97 runs. Samson hit 12 fours and 4 sixes in this historic innings.

World record of biggest chase

The Indian team has set a record for the biggest run chase at Eden Gardens by achieving the target of 196 runs against West Indies. Earlier, the biggest run chase in T20 was 158 runs at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. That record was also set by the Indian team against West Indies.

Small innings from captain Suryakumar Yadav to Hardik Pandya and Tilak Verma also contributed to India’s victory, but one player who stood on the pitch from beginning to end was Sanju Samson.

Those two fours of Shivam Dubey did the job

India had to score 17 runs in the last 2 overs. Hardik Pandya was out on the score of 17 on the second ball of the 19th over. Difficulties were beginning to increase, but then Shivam Dubey came and hit 2 fours in 3 balls. These two fours not only reduced the pressure on Sanju Samson but also prevented West Indies from making a comeback in the match.

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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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