SURYAKUMAR YADAV MOVES TO NO.7 POSITION IN ICC T20I BATTING RANKINGS 🚨

Captain in his Prime Form 🔥

India have won the toss and have opted to field 🇮🇳

India (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Harshit Rana, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah

New Zealand (Playing XI): Tim Seifert(w), Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner(c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy

ARSHDEEP SINGH REPLACED ISHAN KISHAN IN INDIA XI 🚨

- Ishan Kishan has niggle!

BUMRAH THE BESTEST EVER ❤️

FINALLY ARSHDEEP GETS TIM SEIFERT FOR 62. 🔥

NZ - 127/3

INDIA - 63\4 🥲

15 BALLS FIFTY FOR SHIVAM DUBE 🚨

- Shivam dube smashed a destructive fifty in just 15 balls against New Zealand in this run chase.

Suryakumar Yadav said "We purposely played 6 batters today, we wanted to challenge ourselves - for example chasing 180 or 200, as well wanted to see, if we are 2 down or 3 down, we wanted to play all the players who are part of the T20 World Cup".

सूर्यकुमार यादव ने कहा, “हमने आज जानबूझकर 6 बल्लेबाजों को खेला, हम खुद को चुनौती देना चाहते थे - उदाहरण के लिए 180 या 200 का पीछा करना, साथ ही देखना चाहते थे, अगर हम 2 नीचे हैं या 3 नीचे, तो हम उन सभी खिलाड़ियों को खेलना चाहते थे जो टी20 विश्व कप का हिस्सा हैं।”

Sanju Samson in the last 15 innings in T20is:

26 (20), 5 (7), 3 (6), 1 (3), 16 (7), 56 (45), 13 (17), 39 (23), 24 (21), 2 (4), 37 (22), 10 (7), 6 (5), 0 (1), 24 (15).

• Runs - 262
• Average - 17.46
• Strike Rate - 129.06

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HUGE INTEREST IN NEPAL🚨

Nepal’s T20 World Cup matches tickets are 2nd most wanted after India.

#OnThisDay in 2020

𝗥𝗼𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 Smashed Consecutive Sixes, When India need 10 runs off Last 2 balls in Superover 💥

Pure clutch stuff from the Hitman 🙌

Eoin Morgan said - "India are clear favourites to win this T20 World Cup 2026".

इयोन मोर्गन ने कहा - “भारत इस टी20 विश्व कप 2026 को जीतने के लिए स्पष्ट रूप से पसंदीदा है।”

Virat Kohli becomes the 2nd most influential person in the world on Instagram.

- THE AURA OF KING KOHLI 🔥

GOOD NEWS FOR INDIA :

TILAK VERMA and WASHINGTON SUNDAR both are expected to be fit and ready for T20 WORLD CUP 2026.