Team India Created Amazing World Record Against Zimbabwe: In the ICC T20 World Cup 2026, Team India has kept its hopes of semi-finals alive by defeating Zimbabwe in its second Super-8 match. In the match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, explosive innings were seen by all the Indian batsmen, on the basis of which Team India put the second highest score on the board in the history of this tournament. India scored 256 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. During the first innings, an amazing record was also registered in the name of Team India, which was not seen till now in the T20 World Cup.

Team India made an amazing world record

Six players of Team India came to bat against Zimbabwe and all the batsmen scored more than 20 runs at a strike rate of 150+. This is the first time in the history of this tournament that 6 batsmen of a team have scored more than 20 runs in an innings and their strike rate has been above 150. Such a feat had never happened before in the ICC T20 World Cup tournament that started in 2007.

Team India’s stormy batting against Zimbabwe

Team India’s opening pair Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson, who came to bat first after losing the toss, gave a fast start to India. Sanju started the Indian innings by hitting a six in the very first over. Samson was out after scoring 24 runs in 15 balls. During this period his strike rate was 160. After this, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan made a brilliant partnership of 72 runs for the second wicket. Ishaan scored 38 runs at a strike rate of 158.33, while Abhishek hit 4 fours and as many sixes in his innings of 55 runs with a strike rate of 183.33.

Captain Suryakumar Yadav also batted in a stormy style and scored 33 runs in 13 balls at a strike rate of 253. He hit three fours and two sixes in his innings. Hardik Pandya and Tilak Verma thrashed Zimbabwe’s bowlers in the last overs, taking India to a huge score of 256 runs. Where Hardik scored unbeaten 50 runs with the help of two fours and four sixes in 23 balls, in which his strike rate was 217.39.

At the same time, Tilak scored 44 unbeaten runs with 3 fours and 4 sixes in 16 balls and his strike rate was 275.

Tinotenda Maposa Set An Embarrassing Record: Team India defeated Zimbabwe by 72 runs on Thursday in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. This match between the two teams was played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. During this match, a shameful record was registered in the name of Zimbabwean fast bowler Tinotenda Maposa in the debut match of the T20 World Cup. Maphosa has registered in his name the shameful record of bowling the second most expensive over in the debut match of the T20 World Cup. He spent 23 runs in the third over of the Indian team and the first over of his spell. He also bowled one no-ball and two wides in this over.

Sanju Samson hit one six and two fours in this over of Maposa. It is noteworthy that the shameful record of bowling the most expensive over in the T20 World Cup is held in the name of Steve Tikolo. In 2007, Tikolo gave away 25 runs in his World Cup debut over against Sri Lanka.

Abhishek-Hardik played strong innings for Team India

In the match, the Indian team batted first after losing the toss and scored 256 runs on the scoreboard after losing 4 wickets in 20 overs. For Team India, Abhishek Sharma batted brilliantly and played a strong inning of 55 runs in 30 balls, while Hardik Pandya, playing in a explosive style, scored 50 runs in just 23 balls. In the last overs, Tilak Verma batted brilliantly and played a explosive inning of 44 runs in just 16 balls.

Brian Bennett played an excellent innings for Zimbabwe

Chasing the target of 257 runs, Zimbabwe team could score only 184 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, Brian Bennett batted brilliantly and scored 97 runs on 59 balls. However, he could not get support from the rest of the batsmen. In bowling, Arshdeep Singh bowled brilliantly for India and took 3 wickets for 24 runs in 4 overs, while Varun Chakraborty and Akshar Patel took one wicket each.

The second match in the T20 World Cup 2026 is between India and Zimbabwe on Thursday, 26 February. This match of Super-8 is ‘do or die’ for Team India captained by Suryakumar Yadav. Only after winning this match, Team India can remain in the race for the semi-finals.

Let us tell you that in the first match of Super-8, Men in Blue had to face a crushing defeat by 76 runs against South Africa. Let us tell you that the clash between India and Zimbabwe will take place at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

Let us tell you that just winning this match will not be enough for Team India, rather the Men in Blue should win with a good run rate. After the defeat in the first match against Africa, Team India’s net run rate has become -3.800. By whatever means, the team will have to bring its run rate to plus. Now it will be interesting to see how Team India performs in the match.

There may be changes in India’s playing 11

Changes may be seen in India’s playing 11 for the match against Zimbabwe. Sanju Samson can be entered in the team, who has so far played only one match in the tournament against Namibia. Sanju had played an innings of 22 runs in that match.

Apart from Sanju, star all-rounder Akshar Patel can also be included in the team. Akshar was dropped in the last match against Africa. Washington Sundar can be made to sit on the bench in this match. Now it will be interesting to see with which playing 11 the Indian captain takes the field in the match.

India’s probable playing 11 for the match

Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah.

Zimbabwe’s probable playing 11 for the match

Brian Bennett, Tadivanashe Marumani (wk), Dion Myers, Ryan Burl, Sikandar Raza (captain), Tony Munyonga, Tashinga Musekiwa, Brad Evans, Graeme Cremer, Richard Ngarwa, Blessing Muzarabani.