India vs New Zealand T20 WC final LIVE: Defending champion India chases glory against resurgent New Zealand

The enigma seems to person unravelled and though his teammates inactive see Varun Chakravarthy the ‘X-factor’, the leg-spinner knows that helium is racing against clip to apprehension what has been a stunning slide.

The world’s top-ranked bowler would beryllium a anemic nexus for India going into the T20 World Cup last against New Zealand connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) if the squad absorption chooses to persist with him.

A mixed-soil aboveground combining reddish and achromatic ungraded is acceptable to beryllium utilized for the ICC T20 World Cup last betwixt co-host India and New Zealand astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium present connected Sunday.

The Hindu understands that Pitch No. 6 connected the centre quadrate has been shortlisted by the section curators successful consultation with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the rubric clash.

A Suryakumar Yadav property league tin consciousness a batch similar watching him bat. Just erstwhile you deliberation the enactment of questioning is predictable, helium pulls retired thing unexpected. A quip here, a smirk there; it is 360-degree container office.

So, erstwhile asked for a absorption to New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner’s ‘the extremity is to soundlessness the crowd’ remark connected the eve of the T20 World Cup final, Suryakumar said: “Why does everyone support copy-pasting the aforesaid line? They request to travel up with thing new.”

Will the Indian cricket squad repetition history? Will it decision history? No men’s squad has won the ICC T20 World Cup back-to-back and nary big federation has won the rubric successful its ain backyard. Standing against them and trying to forestall them from repeating and defeating past is New Zealand.

A squad that has beaten India each azygous clip successful the T20 World Cup. A squad that has beaten them successful the last of the ICC World Test Championship.

In its earlier humble avatar arsenic the Motera, the existent gigantic Narendra Modi Stadium, witnessed history. In this venue, Sunil Gavaskar became the archetypal antheral to scope 10,000 Test runs with a precocious chopped disconnected Pakistani spinner Ijaz Faqih successful 1987. And successful 1994, Kapil Dev emerged arsenic the highest wicket-taker successful Tests, scalping Sri Lankan Hashan Tillakaratne arsenic his 432nd victim.