HIGHLIGHTS IND vs SA, T20 World Cup 2026: South Africa avenge Barbados in Ahmedabad, thump India by 76 runs in Super 8 clash

The game is over, India have lost their first ever World Cup and they have done so after 12 wins. This 76-run loss would go long-way in shaping their strategy for the next two games. It was not the result anyone anticipated, but it is the result that we have.

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South Africa vs West Indies: Thursday, February 26, at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad (3:00 PM IST).

South Africa vs Zimbabwe: Sunday, March 1, at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi (3:00 PM IST).

India vs Zimbabwe: Thursday, February 26, at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai (7:00 PM IST).

India vs West Indies: Sunday, March 1, at Eden Gardens, Kolkata (7:00 PM IST).

David Miller was rightly chosen as the player of the match for his 63 run knock. Speaking at the post-match presentation ceremony, he said, "[It was] Just about making sure you stick to your strengths and don't go into your shell. During the powerplay, all fielders were in the ring so thought of going over. [We were] Trying to get a partnership as much as we could, and trying to rotate strike."

"[Main scoring areas] With the nature of this ground, you want to look straight. Smaller there than square. Want to shape up to hit straight and then react. Looking to be nice and aggressive against the spinners. They have world-class bowlers. Have played against them a lot, trying to put them under pressure and about putting yourself in the position to do that," he added.

Speaking in the post-match presentation ceremony, South Africa captain, Aiden Markram said, "Great performance. Very different type of wicket to what we’ve had here, so great to see the boys assess that pretty early and adapt their skills to execute their plans. We’re really pumped for the bowling group. They’ve been working hard, started the comp a bit tough, but the way they rocked up tonight was a great effort."

Speaking in the post-match presentation ceremony, India skipper Suryakumar Yadav said, "I feel we were always in the game when we started. I think we bowled really well in the beginning, 21 for 3. 7 to 15, I think they batted really well, and then we came back again in the game later on. Overall, if we see, we bowled really well, but we could have batted a little better."

"My thing is sometimes you’ve got to think, if you’re chasing 180-185, you can’t win the game in the powerplay, but you might lose the game in the powerplay. We lost too many wickets in the powerplay and then we couldn’t have small, small partnerships which we wanted for chasing 180-185, but that’s part of the game. We learn from it, we’ll sit back and then come back stronger," he added.

India Live Score 111-10 after 18.5 overs

Chasing 188 to win, India lost three wickets for 31 runs in the powerplay, making it their joint third worst ever powerplay in World Cup history and the worst in this edition. It became almost impossible to then comeback from there as they kept losing wickets and never got in a position to counter attack.

With Keshav Maharaj and Tristan Stubbs combining as bowler and fielder to pick three wickets in the 15th over, the game was finished then and there. Formalities were completed in the 19th over where Marco Jansen picked two to add to his tally of two that he had picked earlier.

In all, South Africa bowled the Indians out for 111.

India Live Score 111-10 after 18.5 overs

Wicket!! And make that the end of the match as Marco Jansen has picked up yet another wicket here and it is Jasprit Bumrah who has been caught off the very first ball that he faces. India have been bowled out here for 111 and lose the match by a whopping 76 runs. That will take a lot of healing later on.

Wicket!! That would be the end of Shivam Dube as Marco Jansen gets his third wicket and Lungi Ngidi holds on to it

India Live Score 105-8 after 18 overs

The game is going nowhere for sure. People will now be focused on seeing where the points table is headed.

Three from the Ngidi over.

India Live Score 102-8 after 17 overs

That would be just a single from the Corbin Bosch over.

India Live Score 101-8 after 16 overs

Dropped!! After hitting him for two sixes in the over, Dube was trying to go for the third one. The ball stood up and David Miller at short cover had all the time in his hand to settle down, take the catch and give his team a great chance of going all the way to the semis by upping that net run rate. Not to be.

100 comes up for India.

India Live Score 88-8 after 15 overs

Wicket!! He will end the over with three wickets in his kitty would Maharaj. This one again involves the same two people and a new batter Arshdeep. I would have to go through a pile of data to confirm that but I am sure that this would have never happened in T20Is that in one over a blower got three wickets and all caught by the same fielder (not wicketkeeper) at the same position.

Wicket!! Make that to win two. It's not action replay, but it surely has same people involved, Maharaj and Stubbs at the boundary ropes although this one did not require him to get inside the boundary ropes.

Wicket!! What a catch this one from Tristan Stubbs. He knew the ball was coming to him yet kept his clam and then threw the ball in the air and went inside the boundary, came back, all this in a split of a second and caught the ball back to send Hardik Pandya packing.

India Live Score 86-5 after 14 overs

This is brilliant bowling from Lungi Ngidi and the Indian batting is getting exposed big time that if you bowl decent slower ones even the likes of Shivam Dube and Hardik Pandya are unable to hit.

Four balls and three singles so far in this over. My god this is one of the finest piece of slower one bowling we have on display.

Four off the first five balls.

That would be it then. Just five uns from the 14th over and India now need 102 off the last six to win this.

India Live Score 81-5 after 13 overs

It is becoming very difficult to gauge whether India will be able to win this or not as they have Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube in the middle and Rinku Singh waiting in the wings. But no one after that and they need more than 15 runs per over for the next seven overs.

So far 5 from the over and it would be six from the over eventually.

India Live Score 75-5 after 12 overs

Oh!! Stubbs was going for the catch, but then decided to save the four and he did that and saved three runs.

So a four and three singles mean that seven runs come from the over.

India Live Score 68-5 after 11 overs

Six !! Once again, it is the spinner that's getting punished. Maharaj has been hit for a six. Stubbs was in the mix till the very end, but the ball was going far away anyhow.

Just five runs from the over and that would be 11.

India Live Score 57-5 after 10 overs

Wicket!! That's the wicket that South Africa were looking for as they now have the Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav, who has been caught by Dewald Brevis.

That is a great over from Bosch.

India have half their team down.

India Live Score 51-4 after 9 overs

Lungi Ngidi is here with the ball in his hand and he has bowled a fantastic over here.

Just four runs from the over as India bring up their fifty.

India Live Score 47-4 after 8 overs

This is one of the brilliant overs and Bosch has gone for five runs and taken the big wicket of Sundar as well.

Wicket!! Gone. India have lost four here as Corbin Bosch keeps the ball away from Washington Sundar and he nicks it and is taken behind the stumps by de Kock. India are 4 down.

India Live Score 42-3 after 7 overs

Keshav Maharaj is the middle here as he gets ready to use spin and trap the Indian batters.

So far two singles off the first two balls.

Six!! That's massive from Washington Sundar as he gets a six to end the over. 11 from it.

India Live Score 31-3 after 6 overs

Just the two singles and that would bring the end of the powerplay. This is now the worst ever powerplay in this World Cup so far. Just 31 runs in the first six overs. And this team was supposed to score 300.

India Live Score 29-3 after 5 overs

Wicket!! What a catch this one from Corbin Bosch! He kept his eyes on the ball and even after colliding with Keshav Maharaj, kept hold of the ball in his hand to get Abhishek Sharma out, who has now failed in four innings straight.

Three runs and a wicket from the fifth over.

India Live Score 26-2 after 4 overs

Lungi Ngidi is into the attack and he has bowled a brilliant over here.

Just a single and a wide off the first five balls.

Abhishek on strike for the last one and it would be another single. Just three from the over.

India Live Score 23-2 after 3 overs

Six!! That's more like Abhishek Sharma that we know of. He is not letting things get ahead of himself and is going for the shots that he would have, even if he were batting after hitting three fifties instead of three ducks.

Four!! And he would finish the over with a four. 10 from it.

India Live Score 13-2 after 2 overs

Wicket!! Make that two wickets in two overs as Marco Jansen has struck off the first ball here and he has got the big wicket of Tilak Varma. He is out for one.

Suryakumar comes and hits two fours in the over to take 8 runs from it.

India Live Score 5-1 after 1 over

Wicket!! What a start this is for South Africa !! The captain brings himself into the attack and gets the big fish- Ishan Kishan, caught at mid-off.

Abhishek Sharma opens his account though, with a first ball four here.