It was only a few months ago, when Team India had scored more than 250 runs against England in the semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2026. Then in the final also won the title against New Zealand by scoring 255 runs. Then the same batsmen scored a lot of runs in IPL 2026. But what suddenly happened to these batsmen who found it difficult to score runs? This is a question that has troubled everyone because in the third T20 match against England, Team India collapsed in just 70 balls, which had never happened before and no one had ever imagined it.
In the third T20 match played in Nottingham, Team India’s worst performance so far in this entire tour was seen. Not only in this tour, but in the history of T20 cricket, Team India’s batting was the worst in this match. In response to the target of 202 runs set by England, the Indian team could not even come close to it, scoring even half the runs and being all out on the score of just 76, lost by 125 runs.
Five batsmen including opener Abhishek Sharma, 15-year-old young Vaibhav Suryavanshi, wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan and captain Shreyas Iyer, who batted explosively in the IPL, returned to the pavilion only till the 5th over. This was the first time in Indian cricket, when half the team was out in the power play itself. After this, even finishers like Shivam Dubey, Akshar Patel and Tilak Verma could not save the team from an embarrassing situation and ultimately it got bundled out for 76 runs in just 11.4 overs.
If we look at T20 records, this is the second lowest score of the Indian cricket team in this format. Earlier in 2008, when T20 cricket was still new, the Indian innings against Australia ended on 74 runs. But the defeat in Nottingham is more shameful and shocking because the Indian batsmen were limited to just 11.4 overs i.e. 70 balls.
This is the shortest innings of the Indian team in T20 cricket. In all the previous T20 matches where Team India was all out, its innings never ended in such a short number of overs. The previous record was 17.2 overs, which was against South Africa in 2015. Even in the innings of 74 runs, the Indian team batted for 17.3 overs. But this time all those records were destroyed. The defeat by 125 runs is India’s biggest defeat in T20. The last big defeat was by 80 runs.
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