Delhi: Namibia won the toss and elected to field first against India in the 18th match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday.
Playing XIs
India: Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (week), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (catch), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty and Jasprit Bumrah.
Namibia: Louren Steenkamp, Jan Frylinck, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Gerhard Erasmus (c), JJ Smit, Zane Green (wk), Ruben Trumpelmann, Malan Kruger, Bernard Scholtz, Ben Shikongo and Max Heingo.
head-to-head
India and Namibia have met only once in the shortest format, their only encounter coming in the 2021 edition of the T20 World Cup, during which the former won by nine wickets.
Competitions: 1
India: 1
Namibia: 0
Form Guide
India and Namibia enter the match with decent momentum in their favour, as the holders have suffered just one defeat in their last five completed T20Is, while the Eagles have two.
However, the two teams had contrasting starts to their T20 World Cup 2026 campaigns as India eased out the United States (USA) by 29 runs, while Namibia suffered a seven-wicket loss at the hands of the Netherlands in their opening match.
India: W, W, L, W, W (Most recent first)
Namibia: L, W, L, W, W