{"id":22071,"date":"2026-02-15T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22071"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:21:29","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-results-india-thrash-pakistan-in-one-sided-meeting-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22071","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 results: India thrash Pakistan in one-sided meeting in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For a while it looked like this match would not happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pakistan, whose last win against India was at the Asia Cup in 2022, announced a boycott a week before the tournament began, only to reverse their decision at the start of this week after extensive talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It went ahead, in front of a large crowd weighted towards Indian blue, because it is the most lucrative fixture in the world game, providing the funds upon which cricket&#8217;s ecosystem survives in its current imperfect state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How long that remains the case given India&#8217;s dominance, built from their cricketing and financial might, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kishan&#8217;s assault gave India breathing space and their bowlers were ruthless, even if their fielders dropped three catches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Pakistan&#8217;s seamers went the distance, Hardik began with a wicket maiden \u2013 dismissing right-hander Sahibzada Farhan, who skewed a pull shot high to mid-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the next over, the majestic Bumrah pinned left-hander Saim Ayub in front with full inswinger before Pakistan Salman Agha holed out playing a wild slog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even Pakistan&#8217;s biggest name, Babar Azam, was tamely bowled for five attempting a swipe to left-arm spinner Axar Patel in the fifth over, while left-handers Mohammed Nawaz and Faheem Ashraf meekly picked out fielders in the deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After all of the build-up this was another underwhelming meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#T20 #World #Cup #results #India #thrash #Pakistan #onesided #meeting #Colombo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while it looked like thi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}