India’s Jasprit Bumrah celebrates with teammates after dismissing Pakistan’s Saim Ayub. — ReutersPakistan collapse early, dropping prime three batters inside two overs.Usman Khan fights again with 44, however middle-order fails once more.Bumrah, Pandya, Patel, Chakravarthy share two wickets every.
Pakistan suffered a 61-run defeat in opposition to India within the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 group-stage conflict at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, on Sunday.
Ishan Kishan’s blistering half-century, adopted by a collective bowling effort, led India to victory.
Set to chase a frightening 176-run goal, Pakistan’s batting unit may accumulate 114 earlier than getting bowled out in 18 overs.
Pakistan had a disastrous begin to the pursuit as India’s tempo duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya ran by their prime order – Sahibzada Farhan (zero), Saim Ayub (six) and captain Salman Ali Agha (4) – inside two overs with simply 13 runs on the board.
Usman shared a one-sided 21-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Babar Azam (5), who was cleaned up by Axar Patel within the fifth over.
The 30-year-old was then concerned in a cautious 39-run partnership for the fifth wicket with all-rounder Shadab Khan till Axar struck once more to attract curtains on his grit.
Usman remained the top-scorer with a valiant 44 off 34 deliveries, that includes six fours and a six.
His dismissal was adopted by two extra setbacks as Pakistan misplaced Mohammad Nawaz (4) and set-batter Shadab (14) in successive overs and had been thus lowered to 78/7 in 12.1 overs.
All-rounder Faheem Ashraf (10) and lower-order batter Shaheen Shah Afridi then raised 19 runs for the eighth wicket earlier than falling prey to Varun Chakravarthy, who struck once more within the sixteenth over to ship again Abrar Ahmed for a golden duck and introduced the entire all the way down to 97/9.
Pandya then inflicted the decisive blow on Pakistan by cleansing up No.11 Usman Tariq.
For India, Bumrah, Patel, Pandya and Chakravarthy led the way in which with two wickets every, whereas Kuldeep Yadav and Tilak Varma.
Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha’s resolution to subject first didn’t show helpful for the Inexperienced Shirts because the Males in Blue collected 175/7 of their 20 overs.
India bought off to a dismal begin to their innings as Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha’s resolution to open the assault gave them a large breakthrough within the type of top-ranked T20I batter Abhishek Sharma, who fell for a four-ball duck.
The partnership pissed off Pakistan’s bowling unit and yielded 87 runs off 45 deliveries earlier than Saim Ayub gave the Inexperienced Shirts a much-needed breakthrough by eliminating set batter Kishan, who remained the top-scorer with a 40-ball 77, comprising 10 fours and three sixes.
Kishan’s dismissal pressured the brand new pair of Varma and Suryakumar Yadav to remodel the innings as they batted cautiously so as to add 38 runs for the third-wicket stand earlier than Saim pulled issues again by dismissing the left-handed batter and Hardik Pandya (zero) in successive deliveries.
Varma made a cautious 25 off 24 deliveries with the assistance of two fours and a six.
With the scoreboard studying 126/4 in 14.3 overs, Shivam Dube joined skipper Yadav within the center, and the duo retained India’s momentum by knitting a 33-run stand, which culminated with the latter’s dismissal within the penultimate over off Usman Tariq.
The Indian captain remained a notable run-getter with a 29-ball 32, laced with three boundaries.
Dube adopted swimsuit and perished on the penultimate supply of the innings after scoring 27 off 17 deliveries, hitting three fours and a six.
Saim Ayub was the standout bowler for Pakistan, taking three wickets for 25 runs in his 4 overs, whereas Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Tariq made one scalp apiece.
