South Africa thrashed India by 76 runs in the third match of the Super Eight stage of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 on Sunday. Batting first at the Narendra Modi Stadium, South Africa posted 187 runs for seven wickets in their 20 overs. India, chasing 188 runs, were bowled out for 111 runs in the 19th over. After losing three early wickets for 20 runs, South Africa\u2019s David Miller and Dewald Brewis stitched a 97-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Miller top-scored with 63 runs off 35 balls, including three sixes and seven fours, while Brewis made 45 runs. Tristan Stubbs remained unbeaten on 44 runs. Other contributions included Ryan Rickleton\u2019s seven runs, Quinton de Kock\u2019s six runs, captain Aiden Markram\u2019s four runs, and Marco Jensen\u2019s two runs. For India, Jasprit Bumrah claimed three wickets for 15 runs, Arshdeep Singh took two, and Varun Chakravarthy and Shivam Dube took one each. South African captain Aiden Markram, who won the toss and opted to bat, said the pitch was \u201cvery good for batting\u201d and aimed to put pressure on India with a big total. Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav said his side would have chosen to bat first if they had won the toss and confirmed no changes to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa thrashed India by 76 runs in the third match of the Super Eight stage of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30832,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}