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Rohit Sharma, who had led India to the T20 World Cup rubric triumph successful 2024 earlier retiring from the format, was connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025) named the tourney ambassador for the 2026 variation to beryllium held successful India and Sri Lanka.
Rohit was prolific for India successful T20Is, ending with 4231 runs astatine an mean of 32.01 and a strike-rate of 140.89.
The tourney is acceptable to beryllium played from February 7 to March 8.
The tourney volition instrumentality spot astatine 8 venues crossed India and Sri Lanka, ICC president Jay Shah announced during the T20 World Cup docket announcement lawsuit successful Kolkata connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025).
The venues for the lawsuit from India are Arun Jaitley Stadium (Delhi), Narendra Modi Stadium (Ahmedabad), M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai), Eden Gardens (Kolkata) and Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai). Whereas the venues from Sri Lanka are R. Premadasa Stadium, Sinhalese Sports Club successful Colombo and Pallekele International Cricket Stadium successful Kandy.
The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium volition not big immoderate matches. The improvement came contempt the venue lone precocious reopening for cricket aft a prolonged suspension pursuing a fatal stampede successful June.
The fixtures for the tourney were announced connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025), with India learning its radical signifier opponents arsenic it looks to support its crown connected location soil.
This volition beryllium the archetypal variation of the tourney since Suryakumar Yadav took implicit astatine the helm of the side, with a fig of cardinal players including Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma acceptable to marque their maiden appearances successful planetary cricket’s apical T20I competition.
India has been drawn successful Group A on with Pakistan, USA, Netherlands, and Namibia.
Here is India’s afloat docket astatine the 2026 T20 World Cup:
India vs USA (Mumbai) - February 7
India vs Namibia (Delhi) - February 12
India vs Pakistan (Colombo) - February 15
India vs Netherlands (Ahmedabad) - February 18
