India vs West Indies T20 World Cup LIVE: India opts to bowl against WI in must-win Super Eight-1 match

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• India, West Indies teams

• March 01, 2026 20:05

  Hetmyer and Scramble taken out of the game

  After 12 overs, Hetmyer will get taken out. He straight away opinions, and the decision is out. After a single, Scramble hits, nonetheless it is a long way caught by Suryakumar. 

  WI 103/3 in 12 overs.

• March 01, 2026 19:44

  Shai Hope bowled out!

  Varun Chakravarthy bowls Shai Hope out with a orderly ball to the stumps. He leaves the discipline scoring 32 off 33 balls.

  Shimron Hetmyer takes his space.

  WI at 69/1 after 9 overs.

• March 01, 2026 19:39

  Scramble hits a four with a frightful reverse sweep

  Scramble hits a reverse sweep, rolling previous the rapid third fielder for a four! He takes a single off the subsequent ball. The duo are continuously constructing their partnership, taking WI to 66/0 after 8 overs.

• March 01, 2026 19:36

  Highest opening partnership vs India in T20 World Cup 2026

  At 47/0 in 6.3 overs, here is the most real looking most likely opening partnership that any crew has accomplished in opposition to India in this T20 World Cup 2026.

• March 01, 2026 19:24

  Mid-over spoil as Scramble consults the doctor

  At some stage in the 4th over, Hope ratings a four to begin the over, after which a puny spoil is belief as for whereas Scramble consults a doctor resulting from a pronounce in his leg. After the spoil, the 4th over concludes with four dot balls.

  India at 28/0 after 4 overs.

• March 01, 2026 19:10

  Hope ratings first six of the match

  After a sequence of dot balls main into the 2nd over, Shai Hope broke the scramble, scoring the first six of the match.

  West Indies discover 13/0 in 2 overs.

• March 01, 2026 19:05

  Arshdeep to begin bowling payment, WI lead with Scramble, Hope in first innings

  As the first innings begins, Royston Scramble and Shai Hope lead West Indies payment in opposition to India. The Males in Blue have chosen Arshdeep Singh to begin the payment for the innings.

• March 01, 2026 19:00

  India, West Indies teams

  India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Hardik Pandya, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.

  West Indies: Shai Hope (c&wk), Roston Scramble, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Matthew Forde, Akeal Hosein, Gudakesh Motie, Shamar Joseph.

  – PTI

• March 01, 2026 18:59

  India opts to bowl in opposition to WI in must-win T20 World Cup game

  India skipper Suryakumar Yadav obtained the toss and elected to bowl in opposition to West Indies of their must-win Spacious 8 match of the T20 World Cup in Kolkata on Sunday.

  India determined to crawl with the same XI, whereas West Indies made one trade, bringing in Akeal Hosein for Brandon King.

  The profitable crew of this contest will qualify for the semifinals.

  – PTI

• March 01, 2026 15:31

  Shimron Hetmyer most real looking most likely wager for West Indies

  Males in Blue would possibly also counter-attack in opposition to Romario Shepherd’s medium poke, as Ishan Kishan (strike payment of 200 all by diagram of four innings and factual one dismissal, 28 runs scored) and Suryakumar (strike payment of 160 all by diagram of five innings, one dismissal, 60 runs scored) retain an improbable document in opposition to him.

  Shimron Hetmyer has been WI’s most real looking most likely wager with the bat and his success at number three has been extraordinarily heartening from WI’s standpoint, having made 221 runs in six innings at a mean of 44.20 and a strike payment of 182.64 and two fifties.

  Then all once more, India has a cure for a most likely Hetmyer masterclass in none as hostile to Jasprit Bumrah. Males in Blue’s loved ‘Jassi Bhai’, who’s factual three wickets terrorized of 500 world wickets, has brushed off the left-hander five times in 9 innings. Hetmyer has been ready to plot factual 15 runs in opposition to him at a strike payment of 71.

  Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh has a knack for putting off every Hetmyer (three dismissals in 13 innings, conceding 87 runs at an SR of 155) and Rovman Powell (three dismissals in six innings, 56 runs conceded at an SR of 200), whereas Axar Patel has fully dominated Jason Holder with 3 wickets in six innings, giving freely factual 14 runs at a strike payment of factual 82.

  Additionally, this venue is the most real looking most likely space for wrist spinner Varun Chakravarthy to get greater from puny dip in construct, as it is a long way his home venue whereas carrying Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Whereas he continues to take wickets and is India’s prime wicket taker this tournament with 11 scalps at a mean of over 13, his fortunes have dwindled a tiny bit in Spacious Eight phase. — ANI

• March 01, 2026 15:30

  Match-u.s.that would possibly also present an explanation for India’s digital quarterfinal in opposition to West Indies

  Former West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder can be a key participant in level of curiosity almost about match-u.s.at some level of the digital quarterfinal for the final semifinal jam in opposition to Crew India at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens on Sunday.

  Holder has been crucial in WI’s success this tournament, scoring 104 runs in four innings at a strike payment of over 176 and taking eight wickets at a mean of 20.75 with a four-wicket haul to his name.

  Holder’s expertise, management and finnese can be key to Windies reaching the semifinals as he holds stable match-u.s.in opposition to three Indian batters in T20Is as per CricViz info:

  Sanju Samson (four dismissals in 10 innings, conceding 57 runs at a strike payment of 110), 

  Hardik Pandya (four dismissals in seven innings, conceding 33 runs at a strike payment of 110) 

  Skipper Suryakumar Yadav (three dismissals in 9 innings, conceding 83 runs at a strike payment of 160).

• March 01, 2026 15:27

  Bavuma backs India to achieve semifinals

  South African skipper Temba Bavuma backed the Males in Blue to plot it to the final four, pointing how the bowling, severely of spinner Varun Chakravarthy may well per chance be the variation between these two facets with risk of some turn at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

  Then all once more, the superstar spinner has hit a puny rough patch in the Spacious Eight phase after a marvelous start in the neighborhood stage.

  Talking to ANI prior to the South Africa-Zimbabwe clash at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Bavuma, serving as a commentator, acknowledged that whereas WI can match with any aspect by formulation of their hitting abilities, and India is a crew which is moving to be succesful of add “additional 20 runs to their discover. So it is a long way bowling where there may be just a few distinction, with India that comprises celeb bowlers adore Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav as frontline bowlers and Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube as all-rounders.”

  “It is miles thrilling. I win the West Indies is a crew that may well match any energy from a batting level of review. So, you appreciate, I can not name mighty there. Potentially in the bowling, where I would disclose there could be a distinction between the two bowling attacks, where India are in favour, it is a long way in Kolkata. Ogle, when we carried available in the market, the test match, I mean, it spun rather a tiny bit,” acknowledged Bavuma.

  “So, clearly, you enact no longer demand it to play adore that. But clearly, there is that capacity for it to expose. I mean, India has that strength, correct? Chakravarthy is there waiting. West Indies has just a few left-handers (In-construct Shimron Hetmyer and Sherfane Rutherford). So per chance you can stumble on that. I win India as successfully, you appreciate, you roughly regularly add an additional 20 runs to their discover. So, as thrilling as it is a long way, I enact stumble on India going by diagram of to the semifinals,” he added. — ANI

• March 01, 2026 15:25

  India meets West Indies in a enact-or-die in finding

  The Metropolis of Joy is mourning the lack of 1 of its well-liked writers, Sankar. Add to it the earthquake that struck the metropolis on Friday (February 27, 2026). Despite the very fact that there were no casualties, the distress was once real. Inner this theatre, the Males in Blue hope to supply cheer as they take on the West Indies on the ancient Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday night (March 1, 2026).

  The ICC T20 World Cup’s Spacious Eight Crew 1 fixture is a digital knockout, because the winner would hover into the semifinals. A long time up to now, a restricted-overs clash between India and the West Indies would normally swing the latter’s formulation despite the very fact that Kapil’s Devils obtained the 1983 World Cup after beautiful Clive Lloyd’s men. 

• March 01, 2026 15:25

  Sammy urges West Indies players to stare at 2016 win over India for inspiration

  In 2016, Daren Sammy was once the West Indies captain, who seized the ICC World T20 on the Eden Gardens. Striding into the same venue but with a characteristic-shift as coach, Sammy acknowledged, “Properly, I even have on no memoir seen historical previous repeat itself.”

  Elaborating further on Sunday’s (March 1, 2026) Spacious Eight game in opposition to India, Sammy acknowledged, “To win this tournament, you may also have to battle by diagram of India at some level. We’re going to play a true game in grunt to return out victorious. This may composed feel adore a David and Goliath showdown, but in 2016, David did defeat Goliath, in order that’s what I will expose my boys. All my infantrymen are moving for battle.”

  

  Sammy urges WI players to stare at 2016 win over India for inspiration

  Sammy urges WI players to stare at 2016 win over India for inspiration