Zimbabwe’s victory adds to India’s chances of becoming champion.Image Credit source: PTI
The Indian cricket team can win the T20 World Cup for the second consecutive time. Such expectations, claims and speculations are being made continuously. Not only Indian fans and experts, but most of the cricket experts around the world are also considering Team India under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav as their first choice. Now this decision will be taken only by the performance of Team India on the field. But something has happened at the very beginning of the tournament, due to which the chances of Team India becoming champion again seem to be increasing. The reason for this coincidence has been the Zimbabwe cricket team.
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In the T20 World Cup 2026, the teams of Netherlands, Nepal and America had missed the threshold of pulling off a shocking upset in the group stage itself. While Netherlands had made Pakistan sweat, Nepal missed out on creating history against England on the last ball. Whereas USA had put the host Indian team in trouble. Despite this, all three teams failed to reach the result. But zimbabwe He died after finishing the game. In the Group B match, Zimbabwe surprised everyone by defeating former champion Australia by 23 runs and presented its claim for Super-8.
Defeated in the World Cup only for the third time in 43 years
Now Team India had nothing to do with this match. Neither is Team India a part of this group. Nevertheless, the result of this match was a coincidence which made the Indian fans happy and filled with expectations. In fact, this is only the third time in cricket history that Zimbabwe has defeated Australia in any World Cup. This miracle first happened in the 1983 World Cup. After this, Zimbabwe defeated Australia in the T20 World Cup 2007. 19 years after that success, Zimbabwe again repeated this feat. The special thing is that in the history of T20 World Cup, both the teams met only twice and Zimbabwe won both times.
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Will Team India become champion for the third time?
This is just the coincidence which has increased India’s hopes. The entire cricket world knows that in 1983, the Indian team won the World Cup for the first time. After 24 years, the Indian team’s title drought ended in 2007, when it had already won the T20 World Cup trophy under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Now that Zimbabwe has defeated Australia for the third time, it has raised hopes that for the first time in the history of T20 World Cup, a team will become champion for the second consecutive time and that will be Team India.
However, cricket is a game of uncertainties and the outcome of a match or tournament is not decided by chance. For this, consistent strong performance would have to be performed on the field. At present, the Indian team has won both its matches in this World Cup. In the first match, Team India defeated USA and in the second match it defeated Namibia. However, Team India failed to give 100 percent performance in both the matches. But now a perfect performance is expected from him in the match against Pakistan on 15th February.
