India Into the Finals: The Men in Blue batted brilliantly against England in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2026, posting a mammoth total of 253 runs in 20 overs against England and winning the game by 7 runs at the Wankhede Stadium. The biggest reason for this explosive innings was Sanju Samson, who once again batted superbly and put the team in a strong position.
India Into the Finals
Sanju Samson has been in excellent form throughout the tournament and continued his batting in the same vein in the semi-final. He played a quickfire 89-run innings, which included 7 sixes and 8 fours. Although he couldn’t reach his century, his innings played a crucial role in India’s rise to a high score.By scoring 89 runs in a big match like the semi-final, Sanju Samson also created a special record. He equalled Virat Kohli’s record, which is the highest score by an Indian batsman in a T20 World Cup knockout match.
Virat Kohli scored 89 runs against the West Indies in the semi-finals of the 2016 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Now, Samson has equaled that record by scoring the same score against England.
Not only this, Samson broke another major record in this tournament. He also surpassed Rohit Sharma’s record of hitting the most sixes in a single T20 World Cup season.
Samson now has 16 sixes in the 2026 T20 World Cup, while Rohit Sharma hit 15 sixes in 2024. Shivam Dubey, Ishan Kishan, and Hardik Pandya are also batting brilliantly in this list.
Sanju Samson Record vs England
India’s innings didn’t run solely on Samson’s strength. The rest of the team’s batsmen also scored quickly and helped the score cross 250. Shivam Dube played a quick innings of 43 runs and maintained the run rate in the middle overs. Ishan Kishan gave the team a strong start by scoring 39 runs.
Hardik Pandya scored 27 runs, and Tilak Varma scored 21 runs and added runs quickly in the last overs. With the help of all these batsmen, India made a big score of 253 runs by losing 7 wickets in 20 overs.
Will Jacks and Adil Rashid took two wickets each for England, but the English bowlers could not make much impact in front of the attack of Indian batsmen.
Talking about India’s bowling, it was seen struggling a bit but made it to the finals as they stopped the opposition team at 246/7 and won the game.
Now, the Men in Blue will be facing the New Zealand on March 8, Sunday, at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
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