Hardik, Tilak set up India-Windies showdown | IND v ZIM | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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India bully Zimbabwe, everyone scores runs and we are all set up for an India-Windies blockbuster.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, India keep their hopes alive with a stunning victory against Zimbabwe and somehow this tournament gets worse and worse for Australia. |
| 0:09.0 | This calls for a bud. |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, that's right. India keep their hopes alive with a predictable victory, I suppose, against |
| 0:24.9 | Zimbabwe, who have tried their best. Brian Bennett, outstanding, I suppose. Didn't face enough |
| 0:28.9 | balls in the end, but everyone got a hit for India. They made 256 for four off their 20 overs, |
| 0:34.4 | and that felt like it was about a million too many, and so it proved to be. |
| 0:53.8 | Pezza, this was, it was expected, it was clinical, maybe the score was a little higher than what we might have guessed, but it was, it was good from, it was good from India, it was good. Dramatically, it's the end of the African century, I have to say. Well, well, one part of Africa, anyway, another part going quite well. going quite well. I got a quote about that later. |
| 0:55.0 | But, yeah, I thought, |
| 0:56.4 | I thought that in this game, |
| 0:57.9 | we should, one part of Africa anyway another part going quite well going quite well i got a quote about that later |
| 0:54.8 | but uh yeah i thought i thought that in this game we started to see we're hearing a lot about the brand |
| 1:00.8 | of cricket that a team wants to play and i feel like we're starting to see the brand of t20 cricket |
| 1:05.3 | that the big boppers have been building for several years one of them was home uh two or three weeks ago, but we're seeing |
| 1:13.0 | like flatter decks, teams that can lose a wicket and just keep bombing. And I thought that |
| 1:18.3 | that's what India showed overnight. They put a performance together that was a little bit more |
| 1:22.4 | commensurate with the skill and quality that they have. They redressed the run rate issues or net run rate issues that they've got. |
| 1:29.6 | We move forward to an effective quarterfinal between India and the West Indies. |
| 1:34.2 | And we know the result of that already. |
| 1:36.8 | And yeah, but if you are India, it's a little bit of a sigh of relief and like, oh, yeah, we still can play this game. |
| 1:42.9 | That's right. |
| 1:43.8 | All right. |
| 1:44.1 | Well, sorry, Budweiser are putting this podcast in the hands of fans. Dangerously. Podcasts are not putting Budweiser in the hands of fans, although we should be doing that as well. Let's have a look at what the punters are saying out there, please. Pezza, first one comes in and says, Rinko, please get hold of Gambier's nudes from Harshit Rana. |
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