India vs West Indies Super-8 Match: The last day of the Super-8 round of T20 World Cup 2026 has arrived and the last match itself will decide which will be the fourth team to reach the semi-finals. It will also be decided whether the current champion team India can continue its title defense campaign or its journey will end. Today i.e. on Sunday, March 1, the Indian team will face West Indies in the last match of the Super-8 round and whoever wins will get a place in the semi-finals. Team India may look strong but it will have to change history to win here.
At Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata on Sunday India and West Indies When they face each other, Team India will have a chance to settle their 10 year old score. Yes, after 10 years, India and West Indies are facing each other in a T20 World Cup match. The last encounter between the two was in the 2016 T20 World Cup, which took place in India. Then it was the semi-final match of the World Cup, which West Indies won and made it to the finals and then won the title.
History is not in favor of Team India
This time the competition is for the place in the semi-finals. Then West Indies had eliminated the Indian team, this time Team India has a chance to end the game of West Indies team. But this is not going to be so easy because the West Indies team is in good form and the record is also not in favor of Team India. Actually, 4 matches have been played between the two teams in the T20 World Cup before today, out of which India has won only 1 match, while West Indies has won 3 times. The Caribbean team won the matches in 2009, 2010 and 2016, while India got success in 2014. In such a situation, this is not going to be an easy match for Suryakumar Yadav’s team.
But here India has the upper hand
However, if we talk about overall record, India has the upper hand here. A total of 30 matches have been played between India and West Indies in T20 International, out of which Team India won 19, while 10 were in the name of West Indies. One match was inconclusive. If we talk about Eden Gardens, here also both the teams have clashed 4 times and India has got success in all four. But West Indies has played a total of 3 T20 World Cup matches against different teams on this ground and has won all three. That means this ground has been good for both. Now it remains to be seen who dominates whom during the competition.
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