India 2010 T20 World Cup Squad, Results & Stats

Suresh Raina hit the first Twenty20 international hundred by an India batter on 2 May 2010 at Gros Islet, and it bought his side eight days and nothing else. India won both Group C matches in St Lucia, crossed to Barbados for the Super Eight, and lost to Australia by 49 runs, to the West Indies by 14 and to Sri Lanka by five wickets. For the second tournament running they had won everything in the groups and nothing at all in the round that decided qualification.

This was the third World Twenty20 and the first staged outside England: twelve sides in four groups of three, the top two from each into two Super Eight groups of four, then semi-finals, played across Guyana, St Lucia and Barbados between 30 April and 16 May. England won it, beating Australia by seven wickets at Kensington Oval in the final on 16 May — the first global men's trophy England had taken. Mahela Jayawardene finished as the tournament's leading run scorer with 302 and Dirk Nannes as its leading wicket-taker with 14.

MS Dhoni's squad had lost Virender Sehwag before a ball was bowled: a rotator-cuff tear ruled him out in late April and Murali Vijay, who had spent the IPL season opening for Chennai, was called in. Gary Kirsten was the coach. What followed was not a narrow failure — India's net run rate across the Super Eight was minus 1.117, and only one of the three defeats there was closer than fourteen runs.

India's five matches in the Caribbean

Date	Stage	Venue	Opponent	Scores	Result
1 May	Group C	Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet	Afghanistan	Afghanistan 115/8; India 116/3 (14.5)	India won by 7 wickets
2 May	Group C	Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet	South Africa	India 186/5; South Africa 172/5	India won by 14 runs
7 May	Super Eight	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	Australia	Australia 184/5; India 135 (17.4)	Australia won by 49 runs
9 May	Super Eight	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	West Indies	West Indies 169/6; India 155/9	West Indies won by 14 runs
11 May	Super Eight	Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet	Sri Lanka	India 163/5; Sri Lanka 167/5	Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets

The 186 against South Africa was the only score above 165 India made all tournament, and the 135 against Australia was the only innings in which they were bowled out.

Group C: two wins in St Lucia

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net run rate	Points
India	2	2	0	+1.495	4
South Africa	2	1	1	+1.125	2
Afghanistan	2	0	2	−2.446	0

Afghanistan were playing their first World Twenty20 and India bowled them out of it. Ashish Nehra took 3 for 19 from four overs, Praveen Kumar 2 for 14 and Ravindra Jadeja 1 for 15 with a maiden, and Afghanistan managed 115 for 8 despite Noor Ali Zadran's 50 from 48 balls and three sixes in Asghar Afghan's 30. Murali Vijay, in his first innings of the tournament, made 48 not out from 46 balls and India were home in 14.5 overs.

The South Africa match the following afternoon settled the group and is described below. The longer record between the two sides in the shortest format sits on the India and South Africa T20I head-to-head page.

Raina's 101, and what it was worth

South Africa put India in. Vijay went first ball, Dinesh Karthik made 16 from 17, and from there Raina held the innings alone: 101 from 60 balls with nine fours and five sixes, the first Twenty20 international century any India batter had scored. Yuvraj Singh made 37 from 30 alongside him and Dhoni 16 not out from six balls at the close. India finished on 186 for 5.

Rory Kleinveldt went for 48 in his four overs; Dale Steyn conceded 24. South Africa's reply was built by Jacques Kallis, who made 73 from 54 balls, and briefly threatened by AB de Villiers, whose 31 came from 15 balls with three sixes. Yusuf Pathan took 2 for 42, Nehra 1 for 27 and Piyush Chawla 1 for 27, and South Africa were held to 172 for 5. Fourteen runs, a group won, and the rest of Raina's international career is set out on his player page.

Bridgetown, 7 May: 79 not out and 46 from the other ten

India put Australia in at Kensington Oval and watched David Warner and Shane Watson hit thirteen sixes between them in 74 balls — Warner 72 from 42 with seven, Watson 54 from 32 with six. David Hussey added 35 from 22. Australia made 184 for 5, and Nehra's 2 for 31 and Yuvraj's 2 for 20 from two overs were the only figures that held.

The chase produced the strangest innings of India's tournament. Rohit Sharma made 79 not out from 46 balls with six sixes. The ten batters dismissed around him made 46 runs between them, and India were all out for 135 in 17.4 overs, Dirk Nannes taking 3 for 25 and Shaun Tait 3 for 21. Nobody else reached 14. That gap — one batter with 79, ten with 46 — is the sharpest number the 2010 campaign produced, and the wider story of these two sides is covered in the India and Australia rivalry guide.

Gayle's 98, and a fourteen-run margin again

Two days later India again bowled first and again conceded a partnership they could not stop. Chris Gayle made 98 from 65 balls with seven sixes, Darren Sammy 19 from 10 and Kieron Pollard 17 from 11, and the West Indies reached 169 for 6. Nehra took 3 for 35; Harbhajan Singh bowled the tightest four overs of the innings and conceded 16 without taking a wicket.

India needed 170 and lost Gambhir, Vijay and Rohit Sharma cheaply. Raina's 32 from 25 and Dhoni's 29 from 18 kept the equation alive into the closing overs, but Kemar Roach took 2 for 38 and six other bowlers shared the rest. India ended on 155 for 9, fourteen short for the second time in the tournament and out of the semi-final race.

Gros Islet, 11 May: 163 that lasted until the last over

Dhoni chose to bat in a match that no longer decided anything, and Raina made another half-century — 63 from 46 with seven fours — after Gautam Gambhir's 41 from 32. Lasith Malinga took 2 for 25 and Thisara Perera 1 for 15 from three overs, and India closed on 163 for 5 with Dhoni 23 not out.

Sri Lanka answered through Kumar Sangakkara, 46 from 33 with three sixes, and Angelo Mathews, 46 from 37. Vinay Kumar, playing his only match of the tournament, took 2 for 30. It reached the final over because Chamara Kapugedera hit three sixes in a 16-ball 37 not out; Sri Lanka got there with two balls to spare at 167 for 5. India left the Super Eight without a point.

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net run rate	Points
Australia	3	3	0	+2.733	6
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	−0.333	4
West Indies	3	1	2	−1.281	2
India	3	0	3	−1.117	0

India's net run rate in that group was better than the West Indies', who finished a place and two points above them. Losing every match makes the tiebreaker irrelevant.

The fifteen, and the eleven who mattered

Player	Role	Matches
MS Dhoni (capt, wk)	Wicketkeeper-batter	5
Suresh Raina	Middle-order batter	5
Yuvraj Singh	Middle-order batter, part-time spin	5
Yusuf Pathan	Allrounder	5
Harbhajan Singh	Off spin	5
Ashish Nehra	Left-arm fast-medium	5
Murali Vijay	Opening batter, replaced Sehwag	4
Gautam Gambhir	Opening batter	4
Ravindra Jadeja	Left-arm spin and batting	3
Zaheer Khan	Left-arm fast	3
Rohit Sharma	Batter	2
Dinesh Karthik	Wicketkeeper-batter	2
Piyush Chawla	Leg spin	2
Praveen Kumar	Medium pace	1
Vinay Kumar	Medium pace	1

Sehwag was named in the original fifteen and withdrew injured. Gambhir and Rohit Sharma both sat out the two St Lucia group games and came in for the Barbados leg, which meant three different opening pairs in five matches. How this side developed into the one that took the trophy in 2024 is traced in the history of Twenty20 international cricket in India.

Batting and bowling across the five matches

Every player who batted or bowled is listed. No qualification threshold is applied — across a five-match campaign one would remove most of the squad rather than clarify anything.

Player	Innings	Runs	Highest	Not out	Average	Strike rate	Sixes
Suresh Raina	5	219	101	0	43.80	146.00	8
MS Dhoni	5	85	29	3	42.50	149.12	6
Rohit Sharma	2	84	79*	1	84.00	155.56	6
Yuvraj Singh	5	74	37	0	14.80	105.71	3
Gautam Gambhir	4	69	41	0	17.25	111.29	0
Murali Vijay	4	57	48*	1	19.00	83.82	3
Yusuf Pathan	4	42	17	0	10.50	135.48	3
Dinesh Karthik	2	29	16	0	14.50	100.00	0
Harbhajan Singh	2	27	14	0	13.50	128.57	2
Ravindra Jadeja	2	9	5*	1	9.00	81.82	0
Zaheer Khan	2	9	9	1	9.00	128.57	1
Ashish Nehra	2	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Best	Average	Economy
Ashish Nehra	20.0	156	10	3/19	15.60	7.80
Yusuf Pathan	16.0	140	4	2/42	35.00	8.75
Ravindra Jadeja	12.0	117	2	1/15	58.50	9.75
Zaheer Khan	11.0	105	2	1/24	52.50	9.55
Yuvraj Singh	4.0	30	2	2/20	15.00	7.50
Vinay Kumar	4.0	30	2	2/30	15.00	7.50
Praveen Kumar	4.0	17	2	2/14	8.50	4.25
Piyush Chawla	7.0	55	1	1/27	55.00	7.86
Harbhajan Singh	20.0	123	0	—	—	6.15
Suresh Raina	2.0	23	0	—	—	11.50

Four readings of the 2010 numbers

Raina scored close to a third of India's batting runs. The twelve batters used made 704 between them across five innings; Raina's 219 is 31 per cent of that, and he was the only India player to pass fifty more than once. A batting order carrying that much weight in one middle-order place has no margin on the day he makes 5, as he did in Bridgetown.

Harbhajan Singh bowled twenty overs and took no wickets. His economy rate of 6.15 was the best of any India bowler who sent down more than seven overs, and he ended five matches without a dismissal — the clearest case of a split that ran right through the attack, in which the bowlers who kept runs down took nothing and the bowlers who took wickets went at nine an over. Nehra's ten wickets cost 15.60 each but came at 7.80 per over; Jadeja and Zaheer Khan managed two wickets between them in 23 overs for 222 runs.

Australia hit half of India's tournament six count in a single innings. India cleared the rope 32 times in five matches. Warner, Watson, David Hussey and Brad Haddin hit 16 between them in the 184 for 5 at Kensington Oval on 7 May, and Gayle alone hit seven two days later.

Two group wins and no Super Eight wins had now happened twice running. Across the 2009 and 2010 tournaments India played six matches in the second group stage and lost all six; the 2009 campaign in England had ended the same way, one round earlier in the calendar and in almost the same manner. The pattern only partly broke two years later, and what happened in Sri Lanka is covered in India at the 2012 T20 World Cup. Every edition of the competition is indexed on the T20 World Cup hub, with this one at the 2010 tournament page, and Rohit Sharma's arc from that stranded 79 to the captaincy runs through his player page. The rest of the game in the country is at cricket in India.

Sources and method

Scores, dates, venues, dismissals and individual figures rest on ball-by-ball records for the four India matches held in the Cricsheet open dataset (Cricsheet, ODC-BY 1.0), recomputed rather than copied, and on ESPNcricinfo's published scorecard for the Afghanistan match of 1 May, which that dataset does not hold. Group and Super Eight tables, including net run rates, follow the official standings for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. Figures were checked in August 2026.

Balls faced count no-balls and exclude wides; bowlers' runs conceded exclude byes and leg byes, which is the standard scorecard convention. Averages, strike rates and economy rates in the two aggregate tables were calculated from those per-match figures rather than lifted from a summary page, and are rounded to two decimal places.

The share-of-runs figure in the closing section divides Raina's 219 by the 704 runs India's batters made in total, which is why it does not match the sum of the five innings scores — the difference is extras. Six counts are per-innings totals from the same records. Remarks about the opening combinations and about Sehwag's withdrawal are description, not calculation.