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Italy vs England স্কোরকার্ড, Match 29, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 16 2026, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST)
ENGLAND202/7
ITALY178
England won by 24 runs
CRR:8.9
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Match Info
| সিরিজ : | 20/20 World Cup |
| তারিখ: | Feb 16 2026, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Kolkata |
| ভেন্যু: | Eden Gardens |
| টস: | England won the toss and elected to bat. |
| England Playing XI: | Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Harry Brook (c), Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid |
| Italy Playing XI: | Justin Mosca, Anthony Mosca, JJ Smuts, Harry Manenti (c), Ben Manenti, Marcus Campopiano, Grant Stewart, JP Meade (wk), Jaspreet Singh, Crishan Kalugamage, Ali Hasan |
- This is set to be the first men’s T20I between England and Italy; England have won just one of their four meetings with European countries in the competition (L3) – five-wicket win against Scotland (14 February 2026).
- England have alternated between a win and a loss in their last six games at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (W3 L3), after winning three on the bounce prior to that; in fact; the Three Lions won the toss in all six games in that stretch, choosing to bat first in only one of them.
- Italy have won two of their last three men’s T20Is, including a 10-wicket win in their most recent such game (vs Nepal on 12 February 2026); the last time they went on a longer winning streak in the format was a stretch of nine games between July 2023 and July 2025.
- England have scored 8.8 runs per over in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, their third highest in a single edition of the competition (9.2 in 2024 & 8.9 in 2016); however, their collective batting average of 23 in the ongoing edition is their second lowest in a single edition (20.4 in 2007).
- Italy have lost each of their last two men’s T20Is when batting first on the day, after winning six such games in succession prior to that; the last and the only time Italy registered a longer losing streak in such games was between October 2021 and July 2022 (3 games).
- England batters have made a good connection on 69.5% of their deliveries faced in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the third best by any side behind South Africa (72.3%) and Australia (71.7%).
- Jos Buttler (98 boundary fours) is two away from becoming the first England batter and sixth batter overall to strike 100+ fours at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; in fact, only three players have struck more fours in the format than Butler (369).
- Grant Stewart (475 runs) is 25 away from becoming the second Italy batter to score 500 runs in men’s T20Is; Stewart has scored 25+ runs in three of his last six innings, recording a strike rate of over 150 in each of those three innings.
- Tom Banton has taken five catches in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the joint second most by any player to log a 100% catch success rate (Milind Kumar – 6); he has taken multiple catches in each of his last two innings in the format.
- Ben Manenti (Italy) has logged a batting dot ball rate of 16.1% in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the best such rate among batters who faced at least 30 deliveries; Harry Brook (22%) is England’s leader in the category so far this edition.
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