Delhi: The 18th match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 was played between co-hosts and defending champions India and Namibia at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Thursday.
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.
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.