T20 World Cup: Ind–Pak match set for February 15; check men in blue's full schedule

NEW DELHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) connected Tuesday released the afloat docket for the upcoming 2026 T20 World Cup. The tourney volition commencement connected February 7 successful Colombo with Pakistan facing the Netherlands, followed by West Indies playing Bangladesh.India volition unfastened their rubric defence aboriginal the aforesaid time against the USA successful Mumbai. The defending champions' 2nd lucifer is against Namibia successful Delhi connected February 12. The India-Pakistan lucifer is acceptable for February 15 successful Colombo, and India volition implicit their group-stage fixtures against the Netherlands successful Ahmedabad connected February 18.The radical signifier volition diagnostic 3 matches each day.Under an statement finalised earlier this twelvemonth for multi-nation events hosted by India oregon Pakistan, the ICC has alternate venues successful spot for the knockout stage.

If Pakistan scope the semifinals oregon the final, those matches volition beryllium held successful Colombo. If Pakistan bash not scope the final, the rubric lucifer volition beryllium staged astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad connected March 8. Mumbai volition big 1 semifinal and Kolkata the different if Pakistan are not successful the knockout rounds.India and Sri Lanka volition jointly big the 20-team lawsuit crossed 29 days astatine 8 venues — 5 successful India and 3 successful Sri Lanka. The grounds are: Narendra Modi Stadium (Ahmedabad), MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai), Arun Jaitley Stadium (New Delhi), Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai), Eden Gardens (Kolkata), R. Premadasa Stadium (Colombo), Sinhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground (Colombo) and Pallekele International Cricket Stadium (Kandy).A full of 40 radical matches volition instrumentality spot from February 7 to 20, aft which the apical 2 teams from each radical volition determination to the Super Eights starting February 21.

Groups for the 2026 T20 World Cup:

Group A: India, USA, Namibia, Netherlands, PakistanGroup B: Australia, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Ireland, OmanGroup C: England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Italy, NepalGroup D: South Africa, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Canada, UAE