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Varun Chakravarthy, 2nd left, celebrates with teammate Ishan Kishan the wicket of Namibia's Nicol Loftie-Eaton, right, during the T20 World Cup cricket lucifer betwixt India and Namibia successful New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP)
NEW DELHI: India defeated Namibia by 93 runs successful their group-stage lucifer of the T20 World Cup successful New Delhi connected Thursday, registering their 2nd consecutive triumph successful the tournament.This was India's biggest triumph by runs successful the past of the T20 World Cup. Asked to bat first, India posted 209 for 9 successful 20 overs, powered by half-centuries from Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya.Kishan scored 61 disconnected 24 balls, hitting his 50 successful 20 deliveries. Pandya made 52 from 28 balls and added 81 runs for the 5th wicket with Shivam Dube, who contributed 23 disconnected 16 balls. Sanju Samson had earlier fixed India a speedy commencement with 22 disconnected 8 balls.India reached 100 successful the seventh implicit earlier Namibia struck back.
Captain Gerhard Erasmus finished with figures of 4 for 20 successful 4 overs. He dismissed Kishan connected his archetypal shot erstwhile the batter mistimed a changeable to heavy mid-wicket. Bernard Scholtz removed Suryakumar Yadav for 12, and Erasmus claimed different wicket by dismissing Tilak Varma for 25.Pandya and Dube past rebuilt the innings and counterattacked. Pandya was yet dismissed by Erasmus, with substitute fielder Dylan Leicher completing the drawback adjacent the bound aft moving successful and tossing the shot backmost wrong the tract earlier finishing it.
India mislaid a fewer wickets successful the last overs.In reply, Namibia were bowled retired for 116 successful 18.2 overs. Some batters got starts but could not person them into large scores. Louren Steenkamp top-scored with 29. Varun Chakravarthy returned figures of 3 for 7 successful 2 overs.India had earlier defeated the United States successful their Group A opener. They volition adjacent play Pakistan connected Sunday successful Colombo successful 1 of the high-profile matches of the 20-team tournament. Earlier this week, the Pakistan authorities reversed its determination to boycott the lucifer pursuing tensions.Biggest triumph margins for India astatine T20 WC (by runs)
