All-Rounder Bonus – 300 Runs and 10 Wkts – 10 points 200 Runs and 7 Wickets – 5 Points 150 Runs and 5 Wickets – 3 Points
Example – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi – 10+2+3+10=25 Points
Batting Bonus – 10 Points
1 Hundred – 2 points
3 Fifties – 3 points
Strike Rate Bonus – 10 Points
The Main T20 teams to consider only players below 35 years of age as on 31st December of the year of the tournament .. for T20 WC if it were to happen in 2026 it would require that a player should be born after 31st December 1991. A team (at least India) should announce a list of 25 players at the beginning of the year who could play or represent India during the year.
Team India for T20 Internationals (15 Players – Bold implies preference in Playing XI)
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi,Abhishek Sharma,Shubman Gill (C),Sanju Samson (WK), Ishan Kishan (Vice Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma,Rinku Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Prince Yadav, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravi Bishnoi, Dhruv Jurel(WK) and Anshul Kamboj
Reserve – (10 Players) – Devdutt Padikkal, Priyansh Arya, Suyash Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudharsan , Mohsin Khan, Ayush Mhatre, Madhav Tiwari, Arshdeep Singh and Sakib Hussain
India (Seniors) – 35 Plus as on 31st December 2026 (15 Players)- as a special case players not considered among 25 players above and born before 31st December 1993 (at least 33 Years) could be picked for Senior Team. Bold Implies preference for Palying XI.. Further matches of seniors team playing in T20 WC or pentangular contests would be considered as their T20 I games and T20 WC games (given seniors T20 WC takes shape and place in future)
BCCI Annual Contract for Top 25 Players – The purse money other than the match fee
Group A – 3 Crores – Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Group B – 2 Crores – Anshul Kamboj, Mohammed Siraj, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Ishan Kishan
Group C – 1 Crore – The remaining 15 players selected among 25 to play for India.
If other countries are not willing or available to play in a T20 World Cup for Seniors.. BCCI could arrange for Pentangular T20 Seniors series .. It is assumed that at least teams like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, South Africa and New Zealand would love the opportunity to play in such contests.. If Pakistan do not wish to play in India they should wait for ICC to conduct T20 Seniors WC in future .. Further ICC should put a ban of 2 years on Bangladesh for not playing their T20 WC Matches.. (This is for T20 International Cricket). The Seniors team could play T20I matches in parallel with the Men’s team. These teams could provide the opportunity for upcoming Cricket teams of the world to get better experience in Cricketing terms .. Thus one could see at least India Pakistan and West Indies indulging in T20I games with say Nepal, Namibia, Netherlands and their likes the matches would be counted as T20I games.
It is OK if Cricket Pundits are not ready for 10-20-10 format of T20 Cricket they should seriously consider a T20 over to comprise of 5 legitimate deliveries instead of 6, making T20 Cricket a 100 Ball contest.
Number of Fifty Plus Scores by Teams
GT – 14 Three Wkt Hauls RCB – 11 Three Wkt Hauls SRH – 10 Three Wkt Hauls CSK – 8 Three Wkt Hauls DC – 6 Three Wkt Hauls LSG – 4 Three Wkt Hauls RR – 4 Three Wkt Hauls MI – 4 Three Wkt Hauls KKR – 4 Three Wkt Hauls PBKS – 3 Three Wkt Hauls (10 rows)
Number of 3 W plus Hauls by Teams
GT – 14 Three Wkt Hauls RCB – 10 Three Wkt Hauls SRH – 9 Three Wkt Hauls CSK – 8 Three Wkt Hauls DC – 6 Three Wkt Hauls LSG – 4 Three Wkt Hauls MI – 4 Three Wkt Hauls KKR – 4 Three Wkt Hauls PBKS – 3 Three Wkt Hauls RR – 3 Three Wkt Hauls (10 rows)
Long Back I had a thought of ex-players to vote for team selection besides other factors such as current form, strength in a particular format and availability ..
Here I think it would be fair enough to prepare a list of 50 players below 35 years of age by BCCI to be considered among 25 players for their services during the year for country .. This applies only for T20 Internationals .. I am afraid I do not believe in too many formats and formats where more countries are not able to participate for time consuming activity in ODI and Test Cricket..
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are not included as they are going to represent India Seniors for another one or two years ( I definitely would love to put a sealing on upper age limit for India Seniors at 40). A player should not be considered once he has crossed the 40th Birthday.
Future of IPL – 2027 Onwards
Preferably Indian players to be divided into 5 Zones instead of present franchisees .. North, South,East,West and Central with headquarters at North – Delhi, East – Kolkata West – Mumbai South – Chennai and Central – Ahmedabad .. The divisions of Zones could be worked out on the basis of place of birth with states divided into the four zones the Central Zone could field a player from any of the zones who has not been picked in one of the 4 zonal teams ..
North – Virat Kohli/(Captain) South – KL Rahul/Sanju Samson/Shreyas Iyer (Captain) East – Suryakumar Yadav/Rinku Singh (Captain) West – Rohit Sharma/Tilak Verma (Captain) and Central – Hardik Pandya/Shubman Gill (Captain)
In addition to the five Indian teams above, invitation could be sent to top 5 teams of the world with invitation sum of 2 Crores to make up 10 teams.
The tournament to be possibly held in 10-20-10 format and an over comprising of 5 balls instead of present 6 balls. 12 players to be listed after toss where one of them would be used as impact player. The league phase would involve each team playing the invited world teams once in 25 matches. the top five teams the qualify for super league playing each other once making up 10 matches. However, here is a twist – the ranking of teams would include their performances in these two leagues to arrive at the top two teams of the tournament which play a best of three finals to decide the new IPL champion ..
Addendum –
Australia, South Africa, England, New Zealand and West Indies could be the five invited teams
A team could comprise only of 15 players below the age of 40 as stated above
The team winning the toss decides whether they bat first (10 Overs) or bat second (20 overs) followed by remaining 10 overs of team batting first
An over consists of 5 deliveries .. with one permitted bouncer .. A bowler could send a maximum of 5 Overs requiring at least four bowlers to bowl the required 20 overs (100 Balls)
The Power play to be reduced to 4 Overs (20 Balls) for team batting first to be divided into 2 overs in each appearance.
Each win gets two points for a team and three points if it is an innings victory
Innings Victory for team batting first – if team batting first scores more runs in their first 10 overs (first innings) and then gets all 10 wickets of team batting second (2nd innings 20 Over) within that score they would not be required to bat their next 10 overs (third in kings) and thus defeat team batting second by an innings and some runs
Innings Victory for team batting second – if the team batting first gets all out within their stipulated 10 overs of the first innings and the team batting second makes those runs in their innings (20 Overs) the team batting second wins by an innings as team batting first has no players available to play in their second innings (third innings of the match).
There is no net run rate equation involved .. in case of a tie the team who scored more runs from same number of matches qualifies applicable for multi-way tie as well.
Every match would have two players of the match – the best batsman and the best bowler from either side (winning or loosing)
Player of the series, Golden Batsman and Golden Bowler to be awarded to three distinct players i.e. Player of the series can not be given additional award nor Golden Batsman could be given the Golden Bowler award
The Champions and runners-up to be awarded suitable prize money besides the two trophies
GT – 23 Fifty Plus Scores PBKS – 20 Fifty Plus Scores SRH – 20 Fifty Plus Scores RR – 19 Fifty Plus Scores RCB – 18 Fifty Plus Scores DC – 16 Fifty Plus Scores MI – 13 Fifty Plus Scores KKR – 13 Fifty Plus Scores LSG – 12 Fifty Plus Scores CSK – 10 Fifty Plus Score
GT – 14 Three Wkt Hauls RCB – 11 Three Wkt Hauls SRH – 9 Three Wkt Hauls CSK – 8 Three Wkt Hauls DC – 6 Three Wkt Hauls LSG – 4 Three Wkt Hauls MI – 4 Three Wkt Hauls KKR – 4 Three Wkt Hauls PBKS – 3 Three Wkt Hauls RR – 3 Three Wkt Hauls (10 rows)
Batsman – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Sai Sudharsan, Heinrich Klaasen Bowlers – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kagiso Rabada, Jofra Archer
Wicket Keeper Batsman – Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel All Rounders – Nitish Kumar Reddy nd Jason Holder
Point System for selecting Top Player of the 1PL 2026 Season –
All-Rounder Bonus – 300 Runs and 10 Wkts – 10 points 200 Runs and 7 Wickets – 5 Points 150 Runs and 5 Wickets – 3 Points
Example – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi – 10+2+3+10=25 Points
Batting Bonus – 10 Points
1 Hundred – 2 points
3 Fifties – 3 points
Strike Rate Bonus – 10 Points
Example – Heinrich Klaasen – 10+5+3+5=23 Points
Batting Bonus – 10 Points
5 Fifties – 5 points
Fielding Bonus – 5 Points
Strike Rate Bonus – 3 Points
Example – Shubman Gill – 10+5+3+5= 23 Points
Batting Bonus – 10 Points
5 Fifties – 5 Points
Strike Rate Bonus – 3 Points
Fielding Bonus – 5 Points
Example – Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 10+2+5 +10 = 27 Points
Wickets Bonus – 10 Points
1 Four Wicket Haul – 2 Points
5 Three Wicket Hauls – 5 Points
Bowling Bonus – 10 Points
The Main T20 teams to consider only players below 35 years of age as on 31st December of the year of the tournament .. for T20 WC if it were to happen in 2026 it would require that a player should be born after 31st December 1991. A team (at least India) should announce a list of 25 players at the beginning of the year who could play or represent India during the year.
Offside Comment – Football World Cup is at its Best inspite of some topsy-turvy results .. Who is bothered about routine T20I matches especially when truly sensational teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is ignored from playing XI .. To Hell With India’s Cricket Selection Policies..
India Creates History – Three T20 WC Titles – India posted 3 scores of 250 plus in this edition of WC
Player of the Tournament – Sanju Samson – 321 Runs Strike Rate of 200 with 27 Fours and 24 Sixes and 3 Fifties in 5 Matches
India – 255/5 Beat New Zealand 159 by 96 Runs
Player of the Match – Jasprit Bumrah (4 For 15) Leading Wicket Taker (14)
Statistics for India
Tournament’s Top Records – Top Bowler – Jasprit Bumrah (14 Wkts) Most Sixes – Sanju Samson (24 Sixes) Highest Total – 256/7 v Zimbabwe Top Batting All Rounder – Shivam Dube
100 or More Runs – 7 Batsman – Sanju Samson (321) , Ishan Kishan (317), Suryakumar Yadav (242) feature among the Top Ten Batsman. Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Varma and Abhishek Sharma are other with 100 Plus Runs
Half Centurions – 12 Fifty Plus Scores – Three each by Sanju Samson (Best 97*) and Ishan Kishan (Best 77) , 2 each by Hardik Pandya and Abhishek Sharma and one each from Suryakumar Yadav and Shivam Dube
Three Wicket Hauls – 7 Occasions – Twice by Jasprit Bumrah and Varun Chakravarthy and once by Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel and Mohammed Siraj
Five or More Wickets – 6 Bowlers – Jasprit Bumrah (14), Varun Chakravarthy(14), Axar Patel (11), Arshdeep Singh (9), Hardik Pandya(9) and Shivam Dube (5)
Most Catches – Tilak Varma – 8 Catches – Joint third for Most Catches
Most Sixes – Sanju Samson with 24 Sixes is on top, Ishan Kishan (18) and Shivam Dube (17) were fourth and sixth on that list. Hardik Pandya (15) also featured among the Top 10.
Most Boundary Runs – Sanju Samson (252) and Ishan Kishan (240) were second and third best in the category Shivam Dube (162) was also Among Top Ten.
News – New Zealand has won the toss and decided to bowl first ,, India is unchanged a brave move indeed .. and New Zealand brought in Jacob Duffy in place of McConchie .. not such a great idea that McConchie had pulled a win for them in very recent times when chips were down..
Varun has a chance to displace Shadley van Schalkwyk from top of the Bowler’s list.. he has to pick one wicket at whatever cost.. I say that as New Zealand have been brutal for opponents while chasing in this tournament ..
Only Time would Tell How much score India would put up at Narendra Modi stadium and if that is going to be enough.. again I say as 253 were just seven runs away from the reach of Englishmen the other night.. Remember this is a big ground sixes may not be easy or spontaneous .. 200 plus is what we expect from India to say the least.. but do not throw your bat at every ball .. plan it out ..
IndiaNew Zealand
India the defending champions are under pressure to perform to their best against a side that has never won the T20 World Cup so far .. it would be wrong to call New Zealand underdogs.. their batting skills are definitely at its peak and bowling department is slightly weak compared to India.. Ahmedabad could find India making changes to their winning XI .. New Zealand is likely to retain their winning formula or bring in Ish Sodhi for James Neesham .. Abhishek Sharma – The Mr. Maximum is for now Mr. Minimum .. he is among those batsman who failed to reach 100 runs in the tournament .. The mystery of Varun Chakravarthy has been truly demystified it was sad that captain and coach continued with him instead of giving the ball to most under bowled and under utilised allrounder of India Axar Patel, did you say he was the vice-captain.. he was a nice-captain to make way for Washington Sundar in two matches..
It is India who would be under pressure as India had lost the ODI World Cup Final here a couple of years ago .. and after 8 matches are still not sure which XI players should do the job for them .. I would continue with Abhishek for one last Chance but ask him to bat lower down the order at number 5 or 6 and make only one change bringing in Kuldeep Yadav at expense of either Arshdeep or Varun Chakravarthy .. if you really wish to pack a batsman oriented side to make room for Rinku Singh it has to be at the cost of a bowler highlighted below.. I am convinced in my mind that any team winning the toss would like to contain the other team and chase the target ..
Playing XIs –
India – Batting order – Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya/Shivam Dube, Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube/Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh/Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (They Played unchanged No Kuldeep Yadav)
New Zealand – Finn Allen, Tim Seifert, Mark Chapman/Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra/Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Cole McConchie, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson (They left out Cole McConchie for Jacob Duffy)
Stars to Watch –
New Zealand – Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra and Tim Seifert
India – Sanju Samson,Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya
Final – March 08
New Zealand v India at Ahmedabad at 7PM
Semifinal 2 – India – 253/7 Beat England- 246/7 /4 by 7 Runs in a thriller of a match .. March 05 7PM FROM WANKHEDE
Semifinal 1 – South Africa 169/8 Lost To New Zealand -173/1 (12.5) – March 04
ENGLAND – PHIL SALT SAM CURRAN AND WILL JACKS (HARRY BROOK ADIL RASHID)
INDIA – SANJU AMSON ISHAN KISHAN AND HARDIK PANDYA (JASPRIT BUMRAH SURYAKUMAR YADAV)
IndiaNew ZealandEnglandSouth AfricaICC Super 8West IndiesZimbabwePakistanSri Lanka
Shivam Dube Will Jacks and Jason Holder – True All Rounders
Dasun Shanaka (15 Sixes) .. The Most Sixes all Rounder
Glenn Phillips (11 Catches)- The Best Fielding all rounder spot
Rachin Ravindra – Most Wickets – All Rounder – 12 Wickets
Will Jacks – All Rounder with Most Player of the Match
Sikandar Raza the All Rounder Captain of Zimbabwe is the only one to have won the Player of the Match inspite of his team loosing the game..
Player of The Tournament Contenders
New Zealand – Tim Seifert, Finn Allen, Glenn Phillips and Rachin Ravindra
India – Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube
Top All Rounders
Player
Team
Runs
BF
Fours
Sixes
Balls
Wkts
RC
ECON
Cts
M
Team
Shivam Dube
India
235
139
15
17
62
5
146
14.13
6
8
India
Will Jacks
England
226
128
18
14
120
9
195
9.75
6
8
England
Hardik Pandya
India
217
135
13
15
174
6
255
8.79
2
8
India
Sikandar Raja
Zimbabwe
206
125
17
13
120
5
180
9
1
7
Zimbabwe
Glenn Phillips
New Zealand
181
115
17
8
72
3
112
9.33
11
8
New Zealand
Dipendra S Airee
Nepal
169
117
13
7
78
2
89
6.85
0
4
Nepal
Sam Curran
England
167
139
7
8
130
6
205
9.46
4
8
England
Dasun Shanaka
Sri Lanka
165
88
5
15
68
3
102
9
5
7
Sri Lanka
Bas de Leede
Netherlands
158
113
13
5
75
5
98
7.84
0
4
Netherlands
Jason Holder
West Indies
141
81
7
13
138
10
225
9.78
5
8
West Indies
Ben Manenti
Italy
138
77
11
8
84
5
103
7.36
6
4
Italy
Rachin Ravindra
New Zealand
129
96
11
5
114
12
149
7.84
1
8
New Zealand
Mitchell Santner
New Zealand
120
84
4
6
144
3
152
6.33
2
8
New Zealand
Shadab Khan
Pakistan
118
77
11
4
108
5
152
8.44
2
7
Pakistan
Roston Chase
West Indies
100
81
13
1
72
4
103
8.58
1
5
West Indies
Azmatullah Omarzai
Afghanistan
89
52
5
6
83
9
114
8.24
2
4
Afghanistan
George Dockrell
Ireland
85
41
4
7
54
4
54
6
3
4
Ireland
Romario Shepherd
West Indies
80
51
3
8
50
6
83
9.96
1
6
West Indies
Marco Jansen
South Africa
73
43
4
6
136
11
237
10.46
1
6
South Africa
Dunith Wellalage
Sri Lanka
72
29
8
1
162
9
225
8.33
3
7
Sri Lanka
Saim Ayub
Pakistan
70
51
8
4
60
5
74
7.4
2
6
Pakistan
Glen Maxwell
Australia
62
56
3
2
36
2
43
7.17
0
4
Australia
Grant Stewart
Italy
59
36
2
6
84
3
157
11.21
1
4
Italy
Marcus Stoinis
Australia
55
39
3
1
53
4
78
8.83
0
4
Australia
Brad Evans
Zimbabwe
52
33
2
6
128
10
196
9.19
0
7
Zimbabwe
Top All Rounders in T20 WC – 2026 – There could be many criteria to select top All Rounders
For me the best player of the T20 World Cup should go to Jason Holder in case one of the above key performers fail to take their case forward in the two remaining games. Sam Curran has also made significant contribution though it is not visible like in the case of Will Jacks ..
Sahibzada Farhan is likely to be the top Batsman and one of the India or English Bowlers is likely to conquer the long standing 13 Wickets by Shadley van Schalkwyk of USA .. He is still ahead of Murzabani and Ngidi ..
The much awaited T20 World Cup of Cricket is finally here. The Tournament starts with three games featuring Pakistan and Netherlands in the first game, West Indies and Scotland in the next and finally the third game between India and USA.
Follow the games at Star Sports, HotStar or any other TV channel in your respective countries who have bought the rights to broadcast the tournament.
First Day First Show – 11 AM IST – PAK v NED – Group A – Colombo, SSC Ground
News – Pakistan Won the Toss – Elected to Bowl First – Pakistan Pulled up victory from Jaws of defeat. Pakistan were struggling at 114 for 7 when Shadab Khan got out on the first delivery of 17th over .. still needing 34 runs .. and were needing 29 runs from 12 balls after 18 .. However 19 runs were scored in the penultimate over of the innings from Logan van Beek 24 runs scored by Faheem Ashraf who moved from 1 to 25 .. included 3 sixes. a four and a couple .. and a dot ball .. Pakistan had miraculously escaped an upset at the very start of the tournament..
Netherlands – 147 Lost to Pakistan – 148 for 7
Colombo SCC – Pakistan have put themselves in some kind of doldrums by announcing that they would not play their match against India on February 15, any loss to them could speak danger signal to the team. Netherlands would be knowing this, and any team that beats Pakistan in one of their remaining three games would start as a favourite to replace them if Pakistan fails to qualify. Though less likely given the fact that Pakistan have been champions in the 2009 and reached finals on two other occasions in 2007 and 2022.. STARS – Shaheen Shah Afridi and Michael Levitt
Matinee Show – 3 PM – WI v SCO – Group C – Eden Gardens – West Indies won by 35 Runs
News – Scotland Won The Toss and Elected to Bowl First .. Romario Shepherd of West Indies took the first hat-trick of the tournament consuming Matthew Cross, Michael Leask and Oliver Davidson on second third and fourth delivery of his third over and 17th of the Scotland Innings.
West Indies – 182/5 Beat Scotland – 147
West Indies on the other hand face Scotland who is playing instead of initial fixture with Bangladesh. Bangladesh spurred by its politicians and Cricket Board were adamant on not playing their matches in India, ICC excluded them and brought in Scotland, who were the next in the waiting list. West Indies have lifted T20 trophy twice like India and England. They won T20 WC in 2012 and 2016 when Chris Gayle was in devastating form of his life. STARS – Shai Hope and George Munsey
Night Show – 7 PM – IND v USA – Wankhede – India won by 29 Runs
News – USA won the Toss and elected to Bowl First
India 161/9 – Beat USA – 132/8
India meet USA in the third fixture of the opening day of the World Cup 2026 at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. No team can be taken lightly and as such USA has faired quite well in both ts warm up Matches. India is likely to put up their best team possible, they are the defending champions and currently top ranked team in T20 format STARS – Abhishek Sharma and Saurabh Netravalkar
India XI – Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj and Varun Chakravarthy
NB It is also time for Pakistan to decide their stand on playing against India especially if the two teams were to be engaged in a knock-out semifinal or the finals .. It is believed that Pakistan the way they escaped against Netherlands may or may not reach the super eight and from there to top two teams in Super Eight group.. yet the ICC must enquire their decision regarding such a scenario and they must play the finals in India, if both India and Pakistan make it to the Finals..
Morning Show – Match #4 – AFG v NZ – Chennai Afghanistan Won the Toss and elected to bat first
AFG – 182/6 Lost to NZ – 183/5
Matinee Show – Match #5 – ENG v NEP – Wankhede England Won the Toss and Chose to bat First Nepal Came sol close to create the first upset missed the mark by 4 runs
ENG – 184/7 Beat NEP – 180
Night Show – Match #6 – SL v IRE – Colombo (RPS) Ireland Won the Toss
SL – 163/6 Beat IRE – 143
Morning Show – ITA v SCO – Eden Gardens Italy Won The Toss and elected to Bowl First suffer a heavy defeat as Scotland become the first team to go past 200 ..
SCO – 207/6 Beat ITA 134
Matinee Show – OMA v ZIM – Colombo Zim won The Toss and elected to Bowl First Oman barely managed to touch three figure mark .. Three Zimbabwe bowlers scalped three wickets each ..
OMA – 103 Lost to ZIM – 106/2
Night Show – CAN v SA – Ahmedabad Canada won the toss and sent in the South Africa to set a target..
SA – 213/4 Beat CAN 156/8
Morning Show – #10 Match NAM v NED at Delhi Netherlands Won the Toss and Chose to Bowl First
NAM -156/3 NED 159/3
Matinee Show – #11 Match NZ v UAE UAE won the Toss and elected to Bat First
UAE – 173/6 NZ – 175/0
Night Show – #12 Match PAK v USA USA won the Toss and elected to Bowl first
PAK – 190/9 USA – 158/8
SA 187/ 6 AFG 187 SA win in the Second Super Over
AUS 182/6 Beat IRE – 115
WI 196/6 defeat ENG 166
SL 225/5 Beat OMA 120/9
NEP 123 Lost to ITA 124/0
IND 209/9 Beat NAM 116
Night – USA 196/6 defeat NED – 103
Matinee – CAN -150/7 lost to UAE – 151/5
Morning – ZIM -169/2 Beat v AUS – 146
IRE 235/5 Beat Oman 139
SCO 152 Lost to ENG 155/5
NZ 175/7 Lost to SA 178/3
Morning – NEP 133/8 Lost to WI 134/1
Matinee – USA – 199/4 Beat NAM – 168/6
Night – IND v PAK
News from Colombo – Pakistan have won the toss and put India in to Bat .. India Qualifies as second team for Super Eight after West Indies
IND 175/7 Beat Pakistan – 114
15 February – The Big Day in ICC Men’s T20 WC – India v Pakistan game at Colombo .. if weather or rather rains allow Cricket to take place at 7 PM IST ..
A Big Thank To PM Shehbaz Sharif for changing his decision regarding the historically and financially significant match ..
India Likely XI – Abhishek Sharma Ishan Kishan Tilak Varma Suryakumar Yadav Shivam Dubey Hardik Pandya Axar Patel Kuldeep Yadav Jasprit Bumrah Varun Chakravarthy and Arshdeep Singh Reserve – Rinku Singh Good Team Selection Suryakumar Yadav .. I was little skeptic of dropping Rinku .. the most reliable fielder .. All The Best ..
Pakistan is likely to field an unchanged XI from their game against USA or might bring in Salman Mirza in place of one of Nawaz or Shadab or Abrar .. They are most likely to retain Usman Tariq .. The waiting arm in the air before delivery ..
UAE – 160/9 Lost to AFG – 162/5
ENG – 202/7 Beat ITA – 178
AUS – 181 Lost to SL (184/2) Australia are almost out of further contest
CAN -173/4 Lost to NZ 176/2 ;
IRE v ZIM Match Abandoned
SCO – 170/7 Lost to NEP 171/3
Morning – UAE – 122/6 Lost to SA – 123/4
Matinee – PAK – 199/3 Beat NAM- 97
Night – IND 193/6 Beat NED – 176/7
Morning – WI – 165/6 Beat ITA -123
Matinee – SL 178/7 Lost to ZIM – 182/4
Night – AFG – 39/0 (5) v CAN
OMA 104 Lost To AUS 108/1
PAK v NZ – Abandoned after the Toss
Stars to Watch – Team Winning the Toss might like to put Runs on the Board and try to contain the opposition, Pakistan appears more balanced even if the NZ has a definite edge in Batting, I would put 60-40 in favour of Pakistan. Expected First Innings Score – NZ – 180 Plus (PAK 160 or less)
England -146/9 Beat Sri Lanka 95
ENG – Jos Buttler, Sam Curran Adil Rashid Jacob Bethell Will Jacks and Harry Brook, Phil Salt, Tom Banton, Liam Dawson, Jamie Overton, Jofra Archer
Earlier, Sri Lanka Won the Toss and elected to Bowl First.. lost to England by 51 runs .. South Africa won the Toss and elected to bat first .. South Africa might put up a target of 200 Plus and put pressure sp on Abhishek Sharma (with 3 consecutive ducks). Even if they put up 180 it should be enough for bowlers to contain India or so it appears .. as of now..
It is difficult to agree with team India to continue with Washington Sundar .. I think if not Axar at least Kuldeep should have been brought in his place.. it could prove a costly error..
South Africa 187/7 Beat India – 111 ( An Uphill Target of 188 Runs)
IND- Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya and sadly Unchanged XI (with Washington Sundar, Tilak Varma, Arshdeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy)
SA – Aiden Markram, Lungi Ngidi, Ryan Rickelton, Keshav Maharaj and Marco Jansen ( With Tristan Stubbs, Dewald Brevis, Kagiso Rabada, David Miller, Quinton de Kock and Corbin Bosch)
WI -254/6 Beat ZIM -147
PAK – 164/9 Lost to ENG – 166-8
NZ – 168/7 Beat Sri Lanka 107/8
The outcome of this result is that one of the Host country – Sri Lanka has been ruled out of the semifinals and the chances of New Zealand have brightened up a bit unless Pakistan beats Sri Lanka decisively huge margin and New Zealand themselves loose to England rather poorly.. in a few words increasingly it is going to be New Zealand who is joining England from group 2 .. it is highly likely that the semifinals could be devoid of any Asian team for first time ..
WI – 176/8 Lost to SA-177/1
IND -256/4 Beat ZIM – 184/6
I can not underestimate the two games today .. the first would seal the berth of semifinal for the winner and looser may still be not out of contention in this death pool, India on the other hand has to not only win today’s encounter against Zimbabwe they should win it with some margin to cover up the net run rate too .. Zimbabwe are no chicken heads.. time and again they have surprised India including the 1983 World Cup where it was only Kapil Dev who denied them a victory .. but we are in T20 format of WC and Zimbabwe has produced better results than maybe say India in this current edition ..
I have no intention of highlighting XI players for India as alternatives ar not far too better .. I think Indians must continue to enjoy the entertainment format without caring for results and national glory ..
Stars to watch today .. henceforth only three stars would be mentioned from the possible XI, one does not know if the stars picked here might actually be picked in the playing XI .. even if India misses the bus here .. Indians would cling on to IPL immediately after the WC .. after all money can buy top players to play in the league.. and Indian players would shine like moons and stars .. Maine Chand Aur Sitaron ki Tamanna Kee Thi .. Hum History Repeat bhi Karenge.. Hum History Defeat bhi Karenge .. or maybe agar kuchh nahi hua to hum History delete bhi Karenge ..
Hum Logo ko Samajh Sako to samjho dilbar jani .. jaisa bhi hum Cricket khelen rahenge Hindustani ..
South Africa – Lungi Ngidi Aiden Markram and Quinton de Kock (Aiden Markram adjudged Player of the Match )
West Indies – Sherfane Rutherford, Shimron Hetmyer and Gudakesh Motie
India – Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Dube and Axar Patel Kuldeep was not Played)
Zimbabwe – Sikandar Raza, Blessing Muzarabani and Brad Evans (Brian Bennett was Player of the Match indeed a mistake not to mention him)
England has topped the Group 2 of Super 8 .. Therefore it would now have advantage of meeting the second team of group 1 … New Zealand with favorable net run rate have advnatage over Pakistan which have to cover up the net run rate bbesides mandatory winning their last group encounter agianst Sri Lanka ..
New Zealand 159/7 Lost to England 161/6
The picture of other Semi-Finalist from Group 2 and the likely topper would be decided by this game .. England would love to play to their full potential to possibly top the pool and not encounter South Africa who are apparently the top team in the tournament ..
New Zealand know if they win they would have pipped Pakistan out of race, should they loose the margin should be reasonably such that they do not suffer on net run rate in case Pakistan beats Sri Lanka ..
Starrs to Watch –
England – Will Jacks, Sam Curran and Phil Salt
New Zealand – Mitchell Santner, Glenn Phillips and Tim Seifert
New Zealand joins England as the semifinalist from Pakistan
Pakistan – 212/8 Beat Sri Lanka – 207/6
CONGRATULATIONS NEW ZEALAND .. THOUGH NOT DIRECTLY PLAYING HERE BUT WITH 148 ON BOARD FOR SRILANKA HAS PAV ED THE WAY FOR THEIR SEMIFINAL BERTH
PAKISTAN ARE THEMSELVES TO BE BLAMED A WONDERFUL START WAS NULLIFIED BY THEIR OVERCONFIDENCE.. SOMETHING EVERY TEAM MUST LEARN TO TREAT THE BOWLERS WITH SOME RESPECT WHEN THEY DESERVE IT
Pakistan Necessarily has to win the match tonight besides they also have to be aware of the Net Run Rate to cover up the deficit with New Zealand .. Pundits say that Pakistan must win by around 64 runs or chase Sri Lanka target in about 13.1 Overs.. both of which are quite a task .. in fact the host .. though eliminated from further reckoning in the tournament may like to win atleast one Super 8 game for their fans back home .. in 9 out of 10 chances New Zealand is expected to make it to the semifinal along with England ..
Matinee – Zimbabwe 153/7 LOST TO South Africa -154/5
Night – West Indies – 195/4 LOST TO India- 199/5 (4)
Target 196 .. Looks like India is going to end up like other Asian Tigers .. Sanju Samson the Saviour has taken India into Semi-Finals .. Now it is upto the rest of them to make the most out of it in the two games that follow.. England is the first hurdle on their way and then the winner of the other semifinal between South Africa and New Zealand ..
India did well to surpass the difficult target of 196 posed by West Indies.. A marvellous knock from Sanju Samson would go down the history of the game as one of the greatest run chase.. I believe highest successful chase in the history of T20 World Cup .. WELL DONE INDIA .. KEEP IT UP ..
Varun is demystified completely .. Arshdeep exploited in his 3rd over for 24 runs the only good news is last two overs .. one could see 200 ++ target Bumrah controlled the run flow .. But India must do thins differently than going all out during chase.. Very very difficult target to cross .. the semifinal berth is almost slipped as of now ..
The first game is of academic interest alone, as South Africa have qualified for Semi-Final .. and Zimbabwe can not make it to Semis even with a Win.. However, South Africa – the unbeaten team so far has made several changes to their playing XI .. Though their substitutes are equally competent .. esp Anrich Nortje is equally tough customer to deal with.. Maybe they do not want to injure their key players .. Zimbabwe on the other hand has been most impressive with spirited fight they put up against India even if they lost to a huge target chase..
The key battle however is the 52nd match of T20 WC.. as only winner of this game can make it to Semi-final slot.. India seem to have advantage but having won their games batting first .. they may not know how much total is a requisite to contain the powerful West Indies.. if I were Suryakumar Yadav .. I would not hesitate in putting the Windies IN and try to contain them to 175-180 and hope their batsman come true to their strength .. It is possible that both teams may play unchanged and West Indies would also love to bat first if they win the Toss.. so the first innings is more likely to be West Indies trying to set a target for India..
Again if I were SKY I would necessarily bring in Kuldeep Yadav in place of Arshdeep and rely on the services of Shivam Dube .. though he had been a bit too expensive.. bringing in additional batsman like Rinku Singh could also be on the mind of Skipper instead of Kuldeep Yadav, though the only man who could be left out is sadly wicket taking Arshdeep Singh .. and packing the team with batsman has not delivered good results for any team.. If six batsman can not do much of a miracle a seventh or eighth may not be able to do so .. yet the game of Cricket always sends opportunities for funny decisions and funnier results at times.. West Indies could bring in Akeal Hosein for Roston Chase to contain Abhishek Ishan and Tilak ..
WILL JACKS OF ENGLAND HAS ALREADY GOT FOUR PLAYER OF THE MATCH AWARDS FROM ENGLANDS SIX WINS
SAHIBZADA FARHAN IS THE LEADING SCORER IN T20 WC 2026
SHADLEY VAN SCHALKWYK OF USA WAS THE LEADING WICKET TAKER UNTIL FINALS .. USA WAS NOT A PART OF SUPER EIGHT
ROMARIO SHEPHERD TOOK THE FIRST HAT TRICK ( 4 WKTS IN THE OVER) IN 2026 WC V NETHERLANDS
YUVRAJ SAMRA SCORED THE FIRST HUNDRED OF THE 2026 WORLD CUP – 110 V NEW ZEALAND
ABHISHEK SHARMA MADE A HAT TRICK OF DUCKS IN HIS FIRST THREE INNINGS OF WC
SANJU SAMSON HAS HIT MOST SIXES – 24 SIXES IN 5 INNINGS
GLENN PHILLIPS WITH 11 CATCHES WAS THE BEST FIELDER
USMAN KHAN HAS MOST DISMISSALS AS TOP WICKET KEEPER – 10 DISMISSALS
INDIA PUTS UP HIGHEST TOTAL OF 256 FOR 4
HARRY BROOK – FIRST WC CAPTAIN TO SCORE A HUNDRED IN T20 WC – 100 V PAKISTAN
BRIAN BENNETT THE TOP SCORER FOR ZIMBABWE HAS NOT HIT A SINGLE SIX SO FAR IN 180 RUNS FROM 4 GAMES FINALLY HIT 5 SIXES IN GAME AGAINST INDIA IS SECOND HIGHEST RUN MACHINE OF 2026 T20 WC BEHIND SAHIBZADA
USA AND AFGHANISTAN WERE TAD UNLUCKY NOT TO JOIN ZIMBABWE AMONG UPSETTING ONE OF THE SEEDED TEAMS
I PROPOSE TOP 4 TEAMS OR SEMIFINALISTS QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT T20 WC OTHER 16 TEAMS TO BE PICKED FROM T20I QUALIFIERS WC AS DISCUSSED ELSEWHERE
MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR HAVING T20 WC ANNUALLY (QUALFIERS IN ODD YEARS AND FINALS IN EVEN YEARS) AS DESCRIBED IN 10-20-10 FORMAT ARTICLE .
TIME TO CALL OFF TEST AND ODI FORMATS. GLOBAL CRICKET TO BE PLAYED IN T20 FORMAT ALONE .
CONTINENTAL (QUALIFIER) AND THE FINAL WORLD CUP REPRESENT T20 WC EVENTS
Record – 123 – Brendon McCullum (NZ) (58b, 11X4, 7X6)
Brendon McCullum Played that sensational knock on September 21, 2012 in the match against Bangladesh at Pallekele Cricket ground in Sri Lanka
Strike Rates (SR) and Boundary Runs (BR) are two important criteria for great Batsmanship in T20 Cricket, we should not talk of Averages .. if at all another index is required it could be RPI or Runs per Innings,
A Batsman capable of playing big knock is definitely an added advantage.. and in this context another table that summarises Most Fifties comes very handy ..
Top Scores for Teams in T20 WC 2026 (Criteria Scores greater than or equal to 50 runs .. Sort – Descending Runs, Ascending Balls (if not resolved Sixes)
Most Runs – 2026 WC – 100 Runs
Player
Team
Runs
Best
Balls
Fours
Sixes
BR
SR
50Plus
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
383
100
222
37
18
256
173
4
Tim Seifert
New Zealand
326
89
196
34
16
232
166
4
Sanju Samson
India
321
97
161
27
24
252
199
3
Ishan Kishan
India
317
77
164
33
18
240
193
3
Finn Allen
New Zealand
298
100
149
25
20
220
200
3
Brian Bennett
Zimbabwe
292
97
217
32
7
170
135
3
Aiden Markram
South Africa
286
86
173
32
11
194
165
3
Jacob Bethell
England
280
105
184
17
7
110
152
1
Shimron Hetmyer
West Indies
248
85
133
16
19
178
186
2
Suryakumar Yadav
India
242
84
177
21
10
144
137
1
Shivam Dube
India
235
66
139
15
17
162
169
1
Harry Brook
England
235
100
147
21
9
138
160
2
Ryan Rickelton
South Africa
228
61
134
17
15
158
170
1
Will Jacks
England
226
53
128
18
14
156
177
1
Hardik Pandya
India
217
52
135
13
15
142
161
1
Shai Hope
West Indies
217
75
166
19
10
136
131
2
Pathum Nissanka
Sri Lanka
211
100
135
23
6
128
156
2
Tilak Varma
India
207
44
134
18
11
138
154
Dewald Brevis
South Africa
207
45
141
12
14
132
147
Sikandar Raza
Zimbabwe
206
73
125
17
13
146
165
1
Pavan Rathnayake
Sri Lanka
205
60
133
21
6
120
154
1
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka
197
61
150
20
1
86
131
3
Sherfane Rutherford
West Indies
183
76
102
11
13
122
179
1
Glenn Phillips
New Zealand
181
76
115
17
8
116
157
1
Quinton de Kock
South Africa
181
59
134
19
9
130
135
1
David Miller
South Africa
174
63
112
12
10
108
155
1
Ibrahim Zadran
Afghanistan
170
95
119
15
7
102
143
2
Dipendra Singh Airee
Nepal
169
58
117
13
7
94
144
2
Dasun Shanaka
Sri Lanka
165
76
88
5
15
110
188
2
Bas de Leede
Netherlands
158
72
113
13
6
88
140
1
Tom Banton
England
155
63
113
11
7
86
137
1
Rovman Powell
West Indies
149
59
101
11
9
98
148
1
Sam Curran
England
149
43
125
7
8
76
119
Alishan Sharafu
UAE
145
55
129
13
5
82
112
1
Yuvraj Samra
Canada
144
110
92
17
6
104
157
1
Michael Jones
Scotland
142
71
100
14
6
92
142
1
Shubham Ranjane
USA
141
51
78
9
8
84
181
1
Jason Holder
West Indies
141
49
81
7
13
106
174
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Afghanistan
141
84
86
11
8
92
164
1
Abhishek Sharma
India
141
55
89
16
8
112
158
2
Lorcan Tucker
Ireland
139
94
96
13
5
82
145
1
Ben Manenti
Italy
138
60
77
11
8
92
179
2
Tristan Stubbs
South Africa
135
44
100
5
6
56
135
George Munshey
Scotland
134
84
104
21
2
96
129
1
Sohaib Khan
UAE
132
68
91
10
9
94
145
2
T Marumani
Zimbabwe
131
35
93
19
4
100
141
Phil Salt
England
130
66
78
13
6
88
167
1
Rachin Ravindra
New Zealand
129
59
96
11
5
74
134
Mitchell Santner
New Zealand
120
63
84
7
8
76
143
1
Mitchell Marsh
Australia
118
64
60
15
6
96
197
2
Shadab Khan
Pakistan
118
36
77
11
4
68
153
Kamindu Mendis
Sri Lanka
117
44
71
11
5
74
165
Richie Berrington
Scotland
116
49
73
10
5
70
159
Lauren Steenkamp
Namibia
116
58
87
12
5
78
133
1
Harsh Thaker
Canada
116
50
97
7
6
64
120
1
Travis Head
Australia
111
56
70
17
3
86
159
1
Fakhar Zaman
Pakistan
109
84
84
11
6
80
130
Navneet Dhaliwal
Canada
108
64
89
11
2
56
121
1
SP Krishnamurthi
USA
106
68
68
5
8
68
156
1
Justin Mosca
Italy
105
60
84
12
3
66
125
1
Muhammad Waseem
UAE
102
66
71
10
3
58
144
1
Matt Renshaw
Australia
102
65
77
7
1
34
132
1
Roston Chase
West Indies
100
40
81
13
1
58
123
Half-Centurions in WC 2026
Player
Team
Runs
Balls
Fours
Sixes
SR
BR
Versus
Yuvraj Samra
Canada
110
65
11
6
169
80
NZ
Jacob Bethell
England
105
48
8
7
219
74
IND
Finn Allen
New Zealand
100
33
10
8
303
88
SA
Harry Brook
England
100
51
10
4
196
64
PAK
Pathum Nissanka
Sri Lanka
100
52
10
5
192
70
AUS
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
100
58
11
4
172
68
NAM
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
100
60
9
5
167
66
SL
Sanju Samson
India
97
50
12
4
194
72
WI
Brian Bennett
Zimbabwe
97
59
8
6
164
68
IND
Ibrahim Zadran
Afghanistan
95
56
7
5
170
58
CAN
Lorcan Tucker
Ireland
94
51
10
4
184
64
OMA
Sanju Samson
India
89
42
8
7
212
74
ENG
Sanju Samson
India
89
46
5
8
193
68
NZ
Tim Seifert
New Zealand
89
42
12
3
212
66
UAE
Aiden Markram
South Africa
86
44
8
4
195
56
NZ
Shimron Hetmyer
West Indies
85
34
7
7
250
70
ZIM
Fakhar Zaman
Pakistan
84
42
9
4
200
60
SL
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Afghanistan
84
42
4
7
200
58
SA
Suryakumar Yadav
India
84
49
10
4
171
64
USA
Finn Allen
New Zealand
84
50
5
5
168
50
UAE
George Munsey
Scotland
84
54
13
2
156
64
ITA
Aiden Markram
South Africa
82
51
5
4
161
44
WI
Saiteja Mukkamala
America
79
51
5
4
155
44
NED
Ishan Kishan
India
77
40
10
3
193
58
PAK
Dasun Shanaka
Sri Lanka
76
31
2
8
245
56
PAK
Glenn Phillips
New Zealand
76
36
4
6
211
52
CAN
Sherfane Rutherford
West Indies
76
42
2
7
181
50
ENG
Shai Hope
West Indies
75
46
6
4
163
48
ITA
Aryansh Sharma
Emirates
74
53
6
3
140
42
CAN
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
73
41
6
5
178
54
USA
Sikandar Raza
Zimbabwe
73
43
8
4
170
56
SA
Bas de Leede
Netherlands
72
48
5
4
150
44
NAM
Michael Jones
Scotland
71
45
8
3
158
50
NEP
Sanjay Krishnamurthi
America
68
33
4
6
206
52
NAM
Sohaib Khan
Emirates
68
48
6
4
142
48
AFG
Shivam Dube
India
66
31
4
6
213
52
NED
Muhammad Waseem
Emirates
66
45
4
3
147
34
NZ
Tim Siefert
New Zealand
65
42
7
3
155
46
AFG
Matt Renshaw
Australia
65
44
5
1
148
26
ZIM
Mitchell Marsh
Australia
64
33
7
4
194
52
OMA
Shimron Hetmyer
West Indies
64
36
2
6
178
44
SCO
Navneet Dhaliwal
Canada
64
49
7
1
131
34
SA
Brian Bennett
Zimbabwe
64
56
7
114
28
AUS
David Miller
South Africa
63
35
7
3
180
46
IND
Gulbadin Naib
Afghanistan
63
35
3
4
180
36
NZ
Tom Banton
England
63
41
4
3
154
34
SCO
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
63
45
7
2
140
40
ENG
Brian Bennett
Zimbabwe
63
48
8
131
32
SL
Anthony Mosca
Italy
62
32
3
6
194
48
NEP
Phil Salt
England
62
40
6
2
155
36
SL
Pathum Nissanka
Sri Lanka
62
41
8
0
151
32
ZIM
Ishan Kishan
India
61
24
6
4
254
48
NAM
Ryan Rickleton
South Africa
61
28
5
4
218
44
AFG
Shai Hope
West Indies
61
44
5
3
139
38
NEP
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka
61
45
7
136
28
OMA
Ben Manenti
Italy
60
25
4
6
240
52
ENG
Pavan Rathnayake
Siri Lanka
60
28
8
1
214
38
OMA
Justin Mosca
Italy
60
44
5
3
136
38
NEP
Aiden Markram
South Africa
59
32
10
1
184
46
CAN
Rovman Powell
West Indies
59
35
4
4
169
40
ZIM
Rachin Ravindra
New Zealand
59
39
4
3
151
34
CAN
Quinton de Kock
South Africa
59
41
5
3
144
38
AFG
Tim Seifert
New Zealand
58
33
7
2
176
40
SA
Lauren Steenkamp
Namibia
58
39
5
3
149
38
USA
Dipendra S Airee
Nepal
58
47
3
3
123
30
WI
Travis Head
Australia
56
29
7
3
193
46
SL
Gareth Delany
Ireland
56
30
3
4
187
36
OMA
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka
56
43
5
130
20
IRE
Marco Jansen
South Africa
55
30
2
5
183
38
NZ
Abhishek Sharma
India
55
30
4
4
183
40
ZIM
Jacob Bethell
England
55
35
4
4
157
40
NEP
Alishan Sharafu
Emirates
55
47
5
2
117
32
NZ
Ishan Kishan
India
54
25
4
4
216
40
NZ
Mitchell Marsh
Australia
54
27
8
2
200
44
SL
Will Jacks
England
53
22
3
4
241
36
ITA
Harry Brook
England
53
32
4
3
166
34
NEP
Ibrahim Zadran
Afghanistan
53
41
6
1
129
30
UAE
Mohammad Nadeem
Oman
53
56
3
1
95
18
SL
Abhishek Sharma
India
52
21
6
3
248
42
NZ
Tim Seifert
New Zealand
52
26
2
5
200
38
IND
Hardik Pandya
India
52
28
4
4
186
40
NAM
Monank Patel
America
52
30
3
3
173
30
NAM
Ben Manenti
Italy
52
31
5
1
168
26
SCO
Shubham Ranjane
America
51
30
3
3
170
30
PAK
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka
51
38
6
1
134
30
AUS
Dasun Shanaka
Sri Lanka
50
20
2
5
250
38
OMA
Dipendra S Airee
Nepal
50
23
4
3
217
34
SCO
Hardik Pandya
India
50
23
2
4
217
32
ZIM
Aamir Kaleem
Oman
50
29
5
2
172
32
IRE
Harsh Thaker
Canada
50
41
2
3
122
26
UAE
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Before the start of Tournament, the Best T20I Knocks of individual seeded players is being highlighted with total runs shown in Brackets. Data for Super 8 Seeded teams.
Records at Glance – Grouped Batting
Records
Record
Player
Runs
Best
Team
Most Runs
383
Sahibzada Farhan*
383
100*
Pakistan
Most Hundred Plus
2
Sahibzada Farhan
383
100
Pakistan
Most Fifty Plus
4
Shaibzada Farhan
383
100*
Pakistan
Most Sixes
24
Sanju Samson
321
97*
India
Best Strike Rate (100+)
203
Finn Allen
289
100*
New Zealand
Best Average (100+)
146
Brian Bennett
277
97*
Zimbabwe
Most Boundary Runs
256
Sahibzada Farhan
383
100*
Pakistan
Records at Glance – Batting in an Innings
Records
Record
Player
Team
Score
Balls
Fours
Sixes
versus
Top Score
110
Yuvraj Samra
IRE
94*
51
10
4
OMA
Most Sixes
8
Finn Allen
NZ
100*
33
12
8
SA
Most Fours
13
George Munsey
SCO
84
60
13
2
ITA
Best Strike Rate (100+)
303.03
Finn Allen
NZ
100*
12
8
5
NAM
Most Boundary Runs
88
Finn Allen
NZ
100*
33
12
8
SA
Most WC Runs – 2026 Players – 400 + Runs
Player
Country
Runs
Balls
Best
Fours
Sixes
SR
BR
50+
Jos Buttler
England
1100
763
101 *
102
45
144
678
6
Quinton de Kock
South Africa
834
620
74
90
33
135
558
5
Suryakumar Yadav
India
722
479
84*
67
30
151
448
6
Pathum Nissanka
Sri Lanka
696
565
100*
62
20
123
368
5
Aiden Markram
South Africa
670
485
86*
68
23
138
410
5
Glen Maxwell
Australia
640
451
74
53
32
142
404
3
Babar Azam
Pakistan
640
574
70
56
9
111
278
5
George Munsey
Scotland
599
484
84
74
18
124
404
3
David Miller
South Africa
597
468
63
38
28
128
320
2
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Afghanistan
575
433
84
36
36
133
360
4
Hardik Pandya
India
574
386
63
40
34
149
364
3
Mitchell Marsh
Australia
564
403
77*
54
27
140
378
3
Glen Phillips
New Zealand
545
387
104
44
23
141
314
4
Richie Berrington
Scotland
505
389
70
30
20
130
240
2
Kusal Mendis
Sri Lanka
495
395
79
45
11
125
246
5
Max O’Dowd
Netherlands
489
443
71*
47
12
110
260
5
Sikandar Raza
Zimbabwe
484
337
82
39
24
144
300
1
Ibrahim Zadran
Afghanistan
481
417
95*
46
13
115
262
3
Charith Asalanka
Sri Lanka
463
348
80*
35
19
133
254
2
Harry Brook
England
436
297
100
38
12
147
224
2
Marcus Stoinis
Australia
430
278
67*
31
23
155
262
3
Finn Allen
New Zealand
428
243
100*
40
26
176
316
2
Paul Stirling
Ireland
426
367
66*
49
11
116
262
2
Daryl Mitchell
New Zealand
427
316
72*
28
15
135
202
2
Gulbadin Naib
Afghanistan
414
366
63
37
16
113
244
1
T20I Centurions – WC Best Scores – ICC Full Member Nations
Centurions in T20 Internationals (T20I) – World Cup Best – 2026 Players
Player
Country
Best
WC
Balls
Fours
Sixes
versus
WC
Glenn Maxwell
Australia
145*
74
33
7
6
PAK
2007
Phil Salt
England
141*
87*
47
7
5
WI
2024
Finn Allen
New Zealand
137
100*
33
10
8
UAE
2022
Abhishek Sharma
India
135
55
30
4
4
ZIM
2026
Sikandar Raza
Zimbabwe
133
82
48
5
5
IRE
2022
Dewald Brevis
South Africa
125*
45
29
3
3
IND
2026
Babar Azam
Pakistan
122
70
49
7
NAM
2021
Tilak Varma
India
120
44*
16
3
4
ZIM
2026
Johnson Charles
West Indies
118
84
56
10
3
ENG
2012
Suryakumar Yadav
India
117
84*
49
10
4
USA
2026
Quinton de Kock
South Africa
115
74
60
6
2
USA
2024
Paul Stirling
Ireland
115
66*
48
6
2
WI
2022
Sanju Samson
India
111
97*
50
12
4
WI
2026
Yuvraj Samra
Canada
110
110
65
11
6
NZ
2026
Josh Inglis
Australia
110
37
17
6
1
IRE
2026
Glen Phillips
New Zealand
108
104
64
10
4
SL
2022
Pathum Nissanka
Sri Lanka
107
100*
52
10
5
AUS
2022
Rovman Powell
West Indies
107
59
32
10
1
ZIM
2026
David Miller
South Africa
106
63
35
7
3
IND
2026
Jacob Bethell
England
105
105
48
8
7
IND
2026
Mark Chapman
New Zealand
104*
48*
24
3
2
SA
2026
Mitchell Marsh
Australia
103*
77*
50
6
4
NZ
2021
Ishan Kishan
India
103
77
40
10
3
PAK
2026
Shai Hope
West Indies
102*
82*
39
4
8
USA
2024
Jos Buttler
England
101*
101*
67
6
6
SL
2021
Sahibzada Farhan
Pakistan
100*
100*
58
11
4
NAM
2026
Harry Brook
England
100
100
51
10
4
PAK
2026
Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Afghanistan
100
84*
42
4
7
SA
2026
Ross Adair
Ireland
100
34
23
5
1
SL
2026
T20I Centurions from associate member Teams – WC Best Scores
The T20I Matches to be played in 10-20-10 format, i.e. First Team to Bat to play 10 of the allocated 20 Overs as first innings, followed by 20 overs by team batting second and subsequently the team batting first plays its remaining 10 overs as the third inning
Team Winning Toss to decide whether they would bat first or bat second as specified above
Team Batting first continues their next innings from where they left after first innings, however, they would not need to bat again if team batting second does not score more runs than what the first team scored in their first innings. This would be the case of innings defeat for team batting second
If team Batting first gets all out in their first innings the team batting second if they win the match the team batting first would have lost by an innings
If team batting second does not get to bat for at least 10 overs in their innings due to rains or other extraneous reasons other than Cricket, the match would be considered as incomplete ruling out the necessity of any Duckworth Lewis system.
In case of tie between teams for league phase .. a team with bonus innings defeat points (one point for each innings defeat) should be considered for ranking and qualification to next round. Thereby minimising the necessity of NRR as that could be different when many young teams are in the fray
The winner by Runs is for team batting second .. the team batting first and third innings wins by wickets..
The Power Play should also be reduced to 2 Overs in first innings and four overs for second innings and another two overs for third innings. The Power Play would always be at beginning of each of the three innings
Further, if appropriate the contest should be reduced to maximum Hundred balls.. that is every over sent down by a bowler should comprise of five legitimate deliveries instead of six in regular Cricket
Teams could substitute one of their batsman for a bowler or vice versa as the need may be, however they should announce the twelfth man right at the start of the game. They may or may not use the services of the twelfth man. However, the twelfth man would be the first substitute fielder if any injuries to regular playing XI happens during the fielding
Last but not the least, the aim of the format is to nullify the advantage of winning toss or other conditions such as due factor, and also eliminating luck factor in case of match is curtailed for nay reasons
It is hoped that one day, T20I format would replace all other forms of Cricket including ODI and Test Cricket and more and more countries of the world would take part in the game of Cricket at International level including Olympics
A NEW REVISION TO T20 WORLD CUP –
CONTINENTAL T20 WC – ODD YEAR – 5 GROUPS COMPRISING ASIA, EUROPE, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA. AND AMERICA (TOP 20 TEAMS PROGRESS TO T20 WC) AS DESCRIBED BELOW
IT MAY NOT BE MANDATORY FOR TOP FOUR TEAMS OR SEMIFINALISTS OF PREVIOUS T20 WC (EVEN YEAR) TO TAKE PART IN QULAIFIER WC .. THEY WOULD QUALIFY FOR T20 WC FINAL BY VIRTUE OF THEIR TOP 4 SEEDINGS.. THEY WOULD COUNT AMONG MAXIMUM TEAM FROM THEIR CONTINENT .. THE GAMES INVOLVING SEEDED TEAMS IF THEY DO NOT PLAY WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS NO RESULT OR TIE GIVING THE OPPONENTS 1 POINT
HOWEVER IF ANY SEEDED TEAM WISHES TO TAKE PART IN QUALIFIER THEY WOULD NEED TO QUALIFY AMIONG MAXIMUM TEAMS ALLOWED I.E. THEIR SEEDING WOULD BE LOST AND WOULD START AT PAR WITH OTHER TEAMS IN THEIR GROUPS..
FOR WC QUALIFIERS IN 2027 – INDIA ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH AFRICA NEED NOT BE PARTS OF ASIA, EUROPE, AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA WC .. THIS IS IN CONTRAST TO EARLIER REMARK THAT TOP 12 TEAMS OF 2026 T20 WC SHOULD QUALIFY FOR NEXT T20 WC IN 2028 ..
WITH PRESENT RULING TEAMS LIKE AUSTRALIA, WEST INDIES, PAKISTAN AND SRI LANKA OF SUPER EIGHT HAVE TO NECESSARILY PLAY THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIER IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTINENTS
T20 WC – EVEN YEAR – 20 TEAMS DIVIDED INTO FOUR GROUPS – THE PRESENT FORMAT – TOP EIGHT TEAMS PLAY QUARTER FINALS – SEMIFINAL – FINAL – DOING AWAY WITH THE SUPER EIGHT PART OF THE TOURNAMENT – 40 LEAGUE MATCHES – 4 QF – 2 SF AND 3 FINALS (BEST OF THREE) – 48 OR 49 MATCHES – THE ADVANTAGE OF REACHING FINALS IS HONOURED BY BEST OF THREE FINALS
ASIA CONTINENTAL TEAMS (10) – INDIA PAKISTAN SRI LANKA AFGHANISTAN BANGLADESH NEPAL OMAN UAE SAUDI ARABIA MALAYSIA (POSSIBLY DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS – TOP THREE IN EACH GROUP QUALIFY TO T20 WC – 6 Asian teams to play in final T20 WC – 20 MATCHES – HEADQUARTERS – NEW DELHI/ LAHORE
EUROPE CONTINENTAL TEAMS (8 TEAMS) – ENGLAND IRELAND SCOTLAND ITALY NETHERLANDS FRANCE GERMANY SPAIN (DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS – TOP TWO TEAMS OF EACH GROUP QUALIFY FOR T20 WC – 4 European teams to play in final T20 WC – 12 MATCHES – HEADQUARTERS – LONDON/ ROME
AFRICAN CONTINENTAL TEAMS (8 TEAMS) – SOUTH AFRICA ZIMBABWE NAMIBIA KENYA NIGERIA UGANDA BERMUDA TANZANIA DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS – TOP TWO TEAMS OF EACH GROUP QUALIFY FOR T20 WC – 4 AFRICAN teams to play in final T20 WC – 12 MATCHES – HEADQUARTERS – JOHANNESBURG/ HARARE
AUSTRALIA CONTINENTAL (5 TEAMS) – AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND PAPUA NEW GUINEA COOK ISLANDS X (LEAGUE MATCHES ) – 3 TEAMS QUALIFY FOR T20 WC – 10 MATCHES – HEADQUARTERS – SYDNEY/ WELLINGTON
AMERICA CONTINENTAL ( 5 TEAMS) – WEST INDIES USA CANADA BAHAMAS Y (LEAGUE MATCHES) – 3 TEAMS QUALIFY FOR T20 WC – 10 MATCHES – HEADQUARTERS – PORT OF SPAIN/ NEW YORK
The T20 World Cup 2026 is being Hosted by India and Sri Lanka . The Tournament starts with First Match between Netherlands and Pakistan on 7th February at Colombo at 1100 IST followed by Scotland and West Indies match at Eden Gardens at 1500 Hrs IST and a third match between India and United States the same day at Wankhede at 1900 Hrs IST
Group 2
Team
Country
M
W
L
Tie
NR
Points
NRR
England
Harry Brook
Sam Curran
Will Jacks
3
3
0
4
1.096
New Zealand
Mitchell Santner
Glenn Phillips
Finn Allen
3
1
1
1
3
1.390
Pakistan
Salman Ali Agha
Sahibzada Farhan
Saim Ayub
3
1
1
1
1
-0.123
Sri Lanka
Dasun Shanaka
Kusal Mendis
Pathum Nissanka
3
0
3
0
-1.95
This is the first time that Top 20 teams are playing in a World Cup Cricket event
