{"id":433118,"date":"2026-02-18T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433118\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:45:07","slug":"t20-world-cup-abhishek-sharma-out-for-a-duck-but-india-claim-17-run-victory-to-end-group-stage-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433118\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Abhishek Sharma out for a duck but India claim 17-run victory to end group stage unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"

India’s world number one T20 batter Abhishek Sharma was out for a third consecutive duck at the World Cup but the hosts maintained their unbeaten tournament record with a 17-run victory over the Netherlands in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n

With Super 8s qualification already secured, India chose to bat first after winning the toss but their openers were stifled by the Netherlands’ bowlers in the early overs.<\/p>\n

Sharma faced just three balls before being dismissed by a back of the length delivery from Aryan Dutt, becoming the first batter in history to record three ducks in their first three innings of a T20 World Cup. He has five ducks in the calendar year.<\/p>\n

But inspired batting further down the order saw India post an imposing 193-6, thanks to Shivam Dube’s blistering 66 off 31 which featured four fours and six sixes.<\/p>\n

Dube was backed up by Tilak Varma (31), Suryakumar Yadav (34) and Hardik Pandya (30). Aryan Dutt and Logan van Beek did attempt to slow down India’s hard-hitting batters, picking up five wickets between them.<\/p>\n

Having been knocked out of the competition after Pakistan’s win over Namibia<\/a> earlier in the day, the chase looked out of the Netherlands’ reach from the outset.<\/p>\n

Opening batters Michael Levitt and Max O’Dowd found it hard to get going as India spin bowler Varun Chakravarthy claimed a clinical 3-14 off his three overs.<\/p>\n

Chakravarthy claimed revenge on behalf of team-mate Sharma by dismissing Dutt for a duck of his own, leaving the Netherlands 94-4 inside 13 overs.<\/p>\n

Zach Lion-Cachet and Noah Croes hit some late boundaries but never threatened to overhaul the target, meaning India end Group A with an unblemished record of four wins from four matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India’s world number one T20 batter Abhishek Sharma was out for a third consecutive duck at the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}