New Delhi. In the 18th match of the T-20 World Cup, the Indian team maintained its dominance and defeated Namibia by a huge margin of 93 runs. With this spectacular victory, Team India has occupied the top position in its group. After the half-centuries of Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya in the match, the bowlers gave a strong performance and broke the back of Namibian batting.

Hardik was the hero of the match

Due to his excellent all-round performance in the match, Hardik Pandya was given the Player of the Match award. He played a quick inning of 52 runs in 28 balls with the first bat, which included 4 fours and 4 sixes. After that Pandya also showed his talent with the ball and was successful in taking 2 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs.

Here today Namibia won the toss and decided to bowl first. The pair of Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson made a stormy start for the Indian team when they came to bat, scoring 25 runs in just two overs for the first wicket. Meanwhile, on the last ball of the second over, Ben Shikongo made Sanju Samson his victim. Sanju Samson scored 22 runs in eight balls, hitting three sixes and one four.

After this, Tilak Verma, who came to bat, added 79 runs with Ishan Kishan for the second wicket. On the first ball of the eighth over, Gerard Erasmus dismissed Ishan Kishan, who was batting explosively, and sent him to the pavilion. Ishan Kishan played an inning of 61 runs in 24 balls, hitting six fours and five sixes. He completed his half-century in just 20 balls, hitting five fours and four sixes.

Suryakumar Yadav was out after scoring 12 runs in the 11th over. Tilak Verma scored 25 runs in 21 balls hitting three fours. Tilak got a lease of life in the seventh over, but he could not take advantage of it. He was caught on the boundary on the fifth ball of the 12th over. At one time, India had lost three wickets after adding just 20 runs. At such a time, the pair of Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dubey once again took charge of the Indian innings and added runs at a rapid pace.

There was a partnership of 81 runs between the two batsmen for the fifth wicket. Hardik completed his half-century by hitting a six on the first ball of the 19th over. He was again caught on the boundary on the very next ball while trying to hit a six. Hardik played an innings of 52 runs in 28 balls, hitting four fours and four sixes.

In the same over, Shivam Dubey was run out in 16 balls (23). In the last overs, when the Indian batsmen should have scored runs, they kept losing their wickets. Rinku Singh and Akshar Patel were out on zero. The Indian team scored a huge score of 209 runs for nine wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Gerard Erasmus took four wickets for Namibia. Bane Chicago, JJ Smit and Bernard Scholz struck out one batter each.