Zimbabwe is returning to T20 World Cup after 4 yearsImage Credit Source: Zimbabwe Cricket
T20 World Cup 2026 Qualification: There are only a few months left in India and Sri Lanka next year’s T20 World Cup 2026 and now gradually all the teams of the tournament are getting clean. Apart from the current champion India, most of the teams including South Africa, Australia, England, Pakistan had already qualified. Now such a team has confirmed their place in the tournament, which last missed this tournament. This team is Zimbabwe, who defeated Kenya in the semi -finals of the African qualifiers and won the World Cup ticket. In this success, 21 -year -old opener Brian played an important role in Bennett.
Kenya defeated in semi -finals
In the second semi -finals of the T20 World Cup Africa Regional Final event played on 2 October in Harare, hosts Zimbabwe easily defeated Kenya without any trouble. Kenya batted first in this match and could only score 122 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. For Zimbabwe, tall fast bowler Blessing Mujarbani took 2 wickets for 19 runs. At the same time, Rakep Patel played an important innings of 65 runs in 47 balls for Kenya, on which the team reached here.
For Zimbabwe, this goal did not prove to be difficult in any way and the 21 -year -old opener Brian Bennett, which proved to be the most successful batsman in this entire qualifier tournament. Bennett once again showed his amazing and gave the team a stormy start by scoring 51 runs in just 25 balls. After this, it was not very challenging to reach the victory and Zimbabwe won by losing 3 wickets in 15 overs.
Brian Bennett scored the most runs
In this way, Zimbabwe has won the tournament ticket for the first time after the 2022 World Cup. This team could not qualify for the T20 World Cup played last year. This time Bennett played a big role in getting the team qualified especially. The right -handed batsman has scored the highest 299 runs in 4 innings of the tournament, including 1 century and 3 half -centuries. He has scored a total of 50 boundary (39 fours, 11 sixes). Namibia also qualified for the tournament on Thursday before Zimbabwe.