Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha (centre) and New Zealand’s Mitchell Santner (second from left) on the toss for his or her ICC Males’s T20 World Cup Tremendous Eights match on the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on February 21, 2026. — PCB
Pakistan gained the toss and elected to bat first in opposition to New Zealand of their first encounter of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026’s Tremendous Eight section at R Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Colombo on Saturday.
Enjoying XI
Pakistan: Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha (c), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Shadab Khan, Usman Khan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Salman Mirza and Usman Tariq.
New Zealand: Tim Seifert (wk), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), Jimmy Neesham, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi and Lockie Ferguson.
Head-to-head
Pakistan and New Zealand have come face-to-face 49 occasions in T20Is, with the Inexperienced Shirts dominating the head-to-head report with 24 victories, whereas New Zealand have 23.
In T20 World Cups, nonetheless, the 2 sides have clashed seven occasions, with Pakistan main the head-to-head 5-2.
Their final assembly within the match got here within the semi-final of the 2022 version, which the Inexperienced Shirts gained comfortably by seven wickets.
In the meantime, New Zealand’s final victory over Pakistan dates again to the 2016 version, the place they prevailed by 22 runs.
Matches: 49
Pakistan: 24
New Zealand: 23
No Outcome: 2
Type Information
Pakistan and New Zealand enter the fixture with comparable momentum of their favour as they each completed second of their respective teams, successful three of their 4 matches.
Pakistan: W, L, W, W, W (most up-to-date first)
New Zealand: W, L, W, W, L
