Suryakumar Yadav said amazing thing after victoryImage Credit source: PTI
The trend that started in 2007 continues in 2026 also. It is not very difficult to guess what will be the outcome of the clash between India and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup. From Meerpur to Melbourne and from New York to Colombo the same story is being repeated again and again. Even in the T20 World Cup 2026, Team India maintained its dominance by defeating Pakistan. The fans already knew that this time also the Indian team would be the winner, but in the middle of the match, the team also got a glimpse of victory. Captain Suryakumar Yadav himself revealed this.
Colombo’s R. In the match played on Sunday 15 February at Premadasa Stadium, the Indian team defeated Pakistan by a huge margin of 61 runs. Team India had scored a big score of 175 runs on the basis of Ishan Kishan’s inning of 77 runs in 40 balls. After which all the bowlers including Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel together gave continuous blows to Pakistan and the entire team collapsed for 114 runs in 18 overs. In this way, Team India reached Super-8 with 3 consecutive wins.
After the victory of Team India, captain Suryakumar Yadav praised Ishan Kishan and said that the Indian opener batted with different thinking on this pitch. During this, the Indian captain told that after seeing the score, he had understood that Team India was ahead. Surya said, “It is difficult to tell while batting first (what will be a good score). As soon as we reached 175 runs, we knew that we were 15-20 runs more than the required score. Here at the score of 155, the match could have been very tough.”
Surya also praised the bowlers and expressed happiness over the start given by Hardik Pandya. Hardik bowled the first over of the innings for the second consecutive match and also took the first wicket in it. After this, in the very next over, Jasprit Bumrah ended Pakistan’s hopes to a great extent by taking 2 wickets. Referring to this, Surya said that Bumrah has once again shown why he is the best in the world.
