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Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, Match 38, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 19 2026, Thu - 03:00 PM (IST)
SRI LANKA178/7
ZIMBABWE182/4
Zimbabwe won by 6 wickets
CRR:9.33
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 19 2026, Thu - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis (wk), Pavan Rathnayake, Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dushan Hemantha, Dunith Wellalage, Pramod Madushan, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka |
| Zimbabwe Playing XI: | Brian Bennett, Tadiwanashe Marumani (wk), Dion Myers, Sikandar Raza (c), Ryan Burl, Tony Munyonga, Tashinga Musekiwa, Brad Evans, Wellington Masakadza, Graeme Cremer, Blessing Muzarabani |
- Sri Lanka have won two of their last three men’s T20Is against Zimbabwe (L1), including their last match by nine wickets at Rawalpindi on 25 November 2025; the last time the Lions won back-to-back games against the Chevrons in the format was a two-game streak from January 2024 to September 2025.
- Sri Lanka have won each of their last four games at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, having gone on a longer such streak in the competition only once before (6 games in June 2009); meanwhile, Zimbabwe have won each of their last two games in the competition, recording a longer such streak only once before (4 games between March 2014 and March 2016).
- Sri Lanka won their most recent men’s T20I at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo (by 20 runs vs Ireland on 8 February 2026); the last time they won back-to-back games at this venue was in July 2021 (2 games).
- Zimbabwe have won both their completed men’s T20Is in 2026 and will be aiming to win their first three games of a calendar year in the format for the first time.
- Sri Lanka have a batting average of 66.5 against spinners in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the highest such rate of any team to lose at least one wicket against spinners in the competition (Zimbabwe and Canada are yet to lose a wicket to spinners in this edition).
- Having caught 13 of their 14 chances in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Zimbabwe have logged a catching accuracy of 93%, the second highest such rate by any team (Italy – 94%); Sri Lanka have logged a catch success rate of 80% in this edition having caught 16 of the 20 chances presented to them.
- Sri Lanka have logged a bowling dot ball rate of 52% in the slog overs (Overs 17-20) of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the second highest such rate by any team (India - 56%) and 18 percentage points higher than Zimbabwe (34%).
- Brian Bennett has scored 40.7% of Zimbabwe’s runs in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the highest such rate by any player; in fact, his 112 runs in this edition is the most among batters yet to be dismissed.
- By scoring an unbeaten 100 against Australia in the last game, Pathum Nissanka has now logged six 50+ scores in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the joint-second most by any Sri Lankan batter (Mahela Jayawardene - 7); Nissanka (622 runs) is also 40 away from surpassing Kumar Sangakkara (661) to become the Lions’ third highest run scorer in the competition behind Jayawardene (1,016) and Dilshan (897).
- Blessing Muzarabani has picked up 37% of Zimbabwe’s wickets in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the second highest share by any full-member side bowler behind Azmatullah Omarzai (44.4%); in fact, among bowlers with multiple wickets in this edition, only Romario Shepherd (4) and Shadley Van Schalkwyk (6.8) have a better strike rate than Muzarabani (6.9).
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