COLOMBO: 35,000 capacity R. Premadasa Stadium was the venue where India has beaten Green Shirts by 61 runs in the high-voltage ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (27th match, Group A) clash on Sunday (15th Feb, 2026).
Pakistan won the toss and invited India bat first.
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India, that has now crushed Green Shirts in eleven consecutive T20I matches, has qualified for Super 8. India scored 175/7 in the available twenty overs, thanks to Ishan Kishan who scored 77. Green Shirt Saim Ayub, sent three Blue Shirts to the pavilion yielding 25 runs.
Pakistan scored 114/10 in 18 overs. Usman Khan scored 44. Hardik Pandya hunted two scalps for 16 runs. Jasprit Bumrah dismissed two for 17 runs. Varun Chakravarthy also took two wickets yielding 17 runs.
Squads:
Green Shirts: Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Agha (Skipper), Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Usman Khan (wicket-keeper), Shaheen Afridi, Abrar Ahmed and Usman Tariq.
India: Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (Wicket Keeper), Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (Skipper), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy and Jasprit Bumrah.
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