AHMEDABAD: Defending champions India won the toss and elected to bat against Netherlands in the 36th match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Wednesday.
Playing XIs
India: Ishan Kishan (week), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (catch), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty and Jasprit Bumrah.
Netherlands: Michael Levitt, Max O’Dowd, Paz De Leete, Colin Ackerman, Scott Edwards (c/week), Zach Lyon-Cassette, Noah Kroos, Rolof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Thatt and Kyle Klein.
head-to-head
India and the Netherlands have met only once in the shortest format, their lone meeting coming in the 2022 edition of the T20 World Cup, which was won by the Men in Blue.
Competitions: 1
India: 1
Netherlands: 0