India vs Netherlands Highlights: India has defeated Namibia by 17 runs. In this match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Team India batted first and scored 193 runs. In response, the Netherlands team could score only 176 runs. Shivam Dubey’s half-century and Varun Chakraborty’s 3 wickets had a special contribution in India’s victory.
Captain Suryakumar Yadav scored 34 runs and Tilak Verma scored 331 runs for Team India, which came to bat first after winning the toss. But the most powerful performance in batting was of Shivam Dubey, who played a stormy innings of 66 runs in 31 balls. Dubey hit 4 fours and 6 sixes in this innings. Hardik Pandya also played an inning of 30 runs.
Netherlands fought till the end
Netherlands, who came to chase the huge target of 194 runs, had a very poor and slow start. The run rate of the Netherlands team in the first 8 overs was around 6. After that, Colin Ackerman and Bas de Leede made a quick partnership of 49 runs and took the scoreboard forward. Ackerman scored 23 runs and De Leede scored 33 runs. Netherlands’ score till 15.5 overs was 125/6 and their big defeat seemed almost certain.
Jack Lyon and Noah Kross created such a storm with the bat that they kept the Netherlands’ hopes of victory alive till the last over. Both added 47 runs in just 23 balls. Netherlands had to score 46 runs in the last 2 overs to win. 18 runs came in the 19th over, due to which the Dutch team had to score 28 runs in the last over. In the 20th over, Shivam Dubey gave only 10 runs and also took one wicket.
This was the fourth consecutive victory of the Indian team in the group stage of T20 World Cup 2026. Team India is unbeaten in the tournament so far and now it has to play its first match with South Africa in the Super-8 on 22 February.
