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ENG vs NZ T20 World Cup 2026 Super-8 Highlights: In the T20 World Cup 2026, the Super-8 match between England and New Zealand was played on Friday at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. England won the match by 4 wickets. For the team, the pair of Will Jacques and Rehan Ahmed turned the tables in the last 18 balls with a partnership of 44 runs (16 balls) for the seventh wicket. Will Jacques scored 32* and Rehan scored 19*.
England needed 43 runs in the last 3 overs i.e. 18 balls. From here, New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner made a big mistake and handed the over to Glenn Phillips. England took full advantage of this mistake and scored 22 runs from the over. After this, England needed only 21 runs to win in the last 2 overs. Then 16 runs came in the 19th over. From here only 5 runs were needed in the last over, which were scored in just 3 balls of the last over.
Pakistan’s bat-bat
With this victory, England benefited Pakistan. Pakistan team is now in the race for the semi-finals. Pakistan has to play its last match against Sri Lanka, by winning which its points will become equal to New Zealand. If Pakistan wins the last match, then both will have 3 points each. After this, the team with better net run rate will make it to the semi-finals.
match status
Talking about the match, New Zealand, opting to bat first, put 159/7 runs on the board in 20 overs. Glenn Phillip played the biggest inning of 39 runs for the team. Apart from this, opener Team Seifert scored 35 runs. Whereas for England, Adil Rashid, Will Jacques and Rehan Ahmed took 2 wickets each. Joffra Archer took the remaining 1 wicket.
Then the New Zealand team came out for run chase and won by scoring 161/6 runs in 19.3 overs. Tom Banten played the biggest inning of 33 runs for the team. During this period, Rachin Ravindra took maximum 3 wickets for New Zealand.