New Delhi, February 12 (). India defeated Namibia by 93 runs in the 18th match of T20 World Cup 2026. With this, Team India has reached the top in the points table of Group-A.
India (+3.050 net run rate) top the points table with their second consecutive win, while Pakistan (+0.932) are placed second after winning both their opening matches. In this group, Netherlands (+0.356), USA (-1.525) and Namibia (-2.884) are at third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. This was Team India’s second consecutive win in the tournament. Earlier, India had defeated USA by 29 runs.
Team India, who came to bat after losing the toss at Arun Jaitley Stadium, scored 209 runs after losing 9 wickets in the stipulated overs. India had lost the wicket of Sanju Samson (22) by the score of 25. From here, Ishan Kishan put India in a strong position by making a partnership of 79 runs in 31 balls with Tilak Verma for the second wicket.
Ishan scored 61 runs in 24 balls with 5 sixes and 6 fours, while Tilak was out after scoring 25 runs in 21 balls. The Indian team had lost 4 wickets by the score of 124. From here, Hardik Pandya along with Shivam Dubey scored 81 runs in 39 balls and took the team beyond 200.
Hardik was out after scoring 52 runs in 28 balls with 4 sixes and as many fours, while Shivam Dubey contributed 23 runs to the team’s account. Gerhard Erasmus took maximum 4 wickets from the opposition camp. Ben Shikongo, JJ Smits and Bernard Scholtz took 1 wicket each.
In response, the Namibian team was reduced to 116 runs in 18.2 overs. For this team, Lauren Steenkamp scored the highest 29 runs, while John Freelink played an inning of 22 runs. John Nicole Lofty-Eaton contributed 13 runs and Gerhard Erasmus contributed 18 runs to the team’s account.
For India, Varun Chakraborty took the maximum of 3 wickets for 7 runs, while Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel got 2 wickets each. Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dubey and Jasprit Bumrah took one wicket each.
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