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India vs Zimbabwe Scorecard, Super Eight Match 8, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 26 2026, Thu - 07:00 PM (IST)
INDIA256/4
ZIMBABWE184/6
India won by 72 runs
CRR:9.2
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 26 2026, Thu - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Chennai |
| Venue: | M.A. Chidambaram Stadium |
| Toss: | Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| India Playing XI: | Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah |
| Zimbabwe Playing XI: | Tadiwanashe Marumani (wk), Brian Bennett, Dion Myers, Ryan Burl, Sikandar Raza (c), Tony Munyonga, Tashinga Musekiwa, Brad Evans, Tinotenda Maposa, Blessing Muzarabani, Richard Ngarava |
- India have won seven of their last eight men’s T20I games against Zimbabwe (L1) including the last four on the bounce; the sole loss in this period came in the first game of the 2024 multi-game bilateral series where the Chevrons won by 13 runs (6 July 2024).
- This will be the second meeting between India and Zimbabwe at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; the Men in Blue won the previous fixture played at Melbourne in 2022 (by 71 runs), a game where current India skipper Suryakumar Yadav scored a game-high 61*.
- India have won each of their last two men’s T20Is at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, batting second on each of these occasions, they however lost their first game at this venue against New Zealand by 1 run in September 2012; Zimbabwe, meanwhile, will be playing their first men’s T20I at this venue.
- By losing their last game by 107 runs against West Indies, Zimbabwe have now lost each of their last two men’s T20Is in India (also a 59-run loss vs Afghanistan in March 2016) after winning the first two at the venue on the bounce; India meanwhile will be aiming to avoid consecutive defeats in India for the first time since June 2022 (two consecutive losses against South Africa).
- India have logged a catch success rate of 74% in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup edition, with only Oman (67%) and Ireland (60%) logging a lower such rate in the competition; indeed, India have dropped nine chances this term with only Ireland dropping more – 10; six of those nine dropped chances however were classified as ‘hard’ chances.
- Zimbabwe have logged a collective bowling average of 16.2 in Powerplay phase (Overs 1-6) in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, with only England (15.1) and South Africa (15.9) recording a better average; India are fifth in the list with a bowling average of 16.9 in this phase.
- India’s batters have been dismissed 12 times by off spinners in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the most by any team; Zimbabwe and Afghanistan are the only sides yet to lose wickets against such bowlers.
- Blessing Muzarabani (Zimbabwe) has picked up six wickets in the Powerplay phase (Overs 1-6) of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, only Jofra Archer (8) and Shadley van Schalkwyk (7) have logged more in this phase; Jasprit Bumrah (4) is India’s leader in this category in the ongoing edition of the competition.
- Ishan Kishan and Shivam Dube have both hit 11 boundary sixes in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, only Rohit Sharma (15 in 2024) and Yuvraj Singh (12 in 2007) among Indian batters have hit more sixes in a single edition.
- Brad Evans registered his highest T20I score (43) against in Zimbabwe’s previous outing (vs West Indies) in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup edition; among batters to have faced at least 20 deliveries in this edition, only Mitchell Marsh (one boundary every 2.9 balls) has struck boundaries more frequently than Evans (one boundary every 3 balls).
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