India 2014 T20 World Cup Squad, Results & Stats

India arrived at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on 21 March 2014 and did not leave it until 6 April. Six matches, all at the same ground, five of them won: Pakistan, the West Indies, Bangladesh and Australia in the Super 10, then South Africa in the semi-final. In the sixth, Sri Lanka chased 131 with thirteen balls in hand and India ended the tournament as the only side that had been beaten once.

The fifth World Twenty20 was played in Bangladesh between 16 March and 6 April. Eight sides contested a first round for two Super 10 places; ten then split into two groups of five, with the top two from each going to the semi-finals. Sri Lanka took the title, their first in the format, at the fourth final they had reached across the two limited-overs world tournaments. Kumar Sangakkara made 52 not out in what he had announced would be his last Twenty20 international, and Mahela Jayawardene retired from the format alongside him. That campaign is covered from the other side in Sri Lanka's 2014 T20 World Cup title.

Virat Kohli scored 319 runs at 106.33 and was named player of the tournament — the highest aggregate anyone made that year and, at the time, the most any batter had made in a single edition. India's two leg-spin and off-spin options, Amit Mishra and R Ashwin, took 21 wickets between them at under fifteen apiece. It was the most controlled tournament an India side had played in the format, and it produced a runners-up medal.

Six matches at one ground

Date	Stage	Opponent	Toss	Scores	Result
21 Mar	Super 10	Pakistan	India field	Pakistan 130/7; India 131/3 (18.3)	India won by 7 wickets
23 Mar	Super 10	West Indies	India field	West Indies 129/7; India 130/3 (19.4)	India won by 7 wickets
28 Mar	Super 10	Bangladesh	India field	Bangladesh 138/7; India 141/2 (18.3)	India won by 8 wickets
30 Mar	Super 10	Australia	Australia field	India 159/7; Australia 86 (16.2)	India won by 73 runs
4 Apr	Semi-final	South Africa	South Africa bat	South Africa 172/4; India 176/4 (19.1)	India won by 6 wickets
6 Apr	Final	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka field	India 130/4; Sri Lanka 134/4 (17.5)	Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets

India chased four times and won all four. They batted first twice: once for a 73-run win, once for the defeat that decided the tournament.

Super 10 Group 2: four out of four

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net run rate	Points
India	4	4	0	+1.280	8
West Indies	4	3	1	+1.971	6
Pakistan	4	2	2	−0.384	4
Australia	4	1	3	−0.857	2
Bangladesh	4	0	4	−2.072	0

No side held India to fewer than four wickets in hand, and none of the four opponents passed 140. Mishra took the match award in the first two games, Ashwin in the next two, which is an unusual thing for a batting side to be able to say about a group stage.

Mishra's two match awards, and 130 chased twice

Dhoni bowled first against Pakistan on 21 March and Mishra's 4 for 22 in leg-breaks — two wickets, and 22 conceded in four overs — set the pattern for the fortnight. Pakistan made 130 for 7. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma put on 50 for the first wicket, and Kohli's unbeaten 36 with Suresh Raina's 35 not out finished it with nine balls to spare.

Two nights later the West Indies made 129 for 7 in the same conditions, Ravindra Jadeja taking 3 for 48 and Mishra 2 for 18, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar conceding three runs in his three overs. Rohit Sharma's 62 not out from 55 balls and Kohli's 54 saw India home in the last over. Chris Gayle made 34 from 33, a strike rate that says as much about the surface as about him. Mishra's international career, spent largely in the queue behind other spinners, is set out on his player page.

Bangladesh, and then Australia for 86

Bangladesh, playing at home in front of a full house on 28 March, made 138 for 7 through Anamul Haque's 44 and Mahmudullah's unbeaten 33. Ashwin took 2 for 15 and Mishra 3 for 26. Kohli made 57 not out from 50 balls and Rohit Sharma 56, and India won by eight wickets.

The Australia match on 30 March was the only Super 10 game India batted first in and the only one they won by a wide margin. Yuvraj Singh made 60 from 43 balls with four sixes — his one substantial innings of the tournament — and India reached 159 for 7. Australia were then bowled out for 86 in 16.2 overs: Ashwin took 4 for 11, Mishra 2 for 13, Bhuvneshwar 1 for 7. Glenn Maxwell's 23 from 12 was the top score. It was Australia's fourth defeat and it eliminated them.

Mirpur, 4 April: 172 chased with five balls left

South Africa batted in the semi-final and made 172 for 4, their highest score of the tournament, built on Faf du Plessis's 58 from 41 and JP Duminy's unbeaten 45. Ashwin took 3 for 22 from four overs; every other India bowler conceded at least eight an over.

India's reply was the innings of the tournament. Kohli made 72 not out from 44 balls with five fours and two sixes, taking the chase from 63 for 2 at the halfway mark to completion with five balls to spare. Ajinkya Rahane made 32, Rohit Sharma 24 from 13 and Raina 21 from 10. India had beaten a side that had never lost to them in a World Twenty20 knockout — because none had previously been played — and they had done it without needing the last over. The wider record of Kohli's chases sits on his player page.

The final: 130 for 4, and 77 of them

Sri Lanka put India in on 6 April. Rohit Sharma made 29 from 26 and was out in the ninth over; Rahane made 3 from 8; Yuvraj Singh made 11 from 21 balls; Dhoni came in with two overs left and made 4 not out from 7. Kohli made 77 from 58 with four sixes, and the four batters dismissed or stranded around him made 47 runs from 62 deliveries between them. India finished on 130 for 4 — a completed twenty overs, only four wickets lost, and the lowest first-innings total they made all tournament.

Sri Lanka lost Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan inside the powerplay and then did not hurry. Jayawardene made 24, Sangakkara 52 not out from 35 balls, and Thisara Perera hit three sixes in an unbeaten 23 to finish it in the eighteenth over. Ashwin, Mishra, Raina and Mohit Sharma took a wicket each. India had lost a global final for the second time in eight months, having won every match up to it.

The squad Dhoni took to Bangladesh

Player	Role	Matches
MS Dhoni (capt, wk)	Wicketkeeper-batter	6
Virat Kohli	Batter	6
Rohit Sharma	Opening batter	6
Yuvraj Singh	Batter, left-arm spin	6
Suresh Raina	Batter, off spin	6
R Ashwin	Off spin	6
Ravindra Jadeja	Left-arm spin, batting	6
Amit Mishra	Leg spin	6
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Right-arm swing	6
Shikhar Dhawan	Opening batter	3
Ajinkya Rahane	Opening batter	3
Mohammed Shami	Right-arm fast	3
Mohit Sharma	Right-arm medium-fast	3
Stuart Binny	Allrounder	0
Varun Aaron	Right-arm fast	0

Nine players appeared in all six matches. The one change India made was at the top and in the attack at the same time: Dhawan and Mohammed Shami played the first three, Rahane and Mohit Sharma the last three. Duncan Fletcher was the coach; the shape of the side and its captain's record across formats is on MS Dhoni's player page.

Batting and bowling over six matches

Every player who batted or bowled is listed. With six matches there is no useful qualification threshold — a five-innings minimum would leave four names.

Player	Innings	Runs	Highest	Not out	Average	Strike rate	Sixes
Virat Kohli	6	319	77	3	106.33	129.15	10
Rohit Sharma	6	200	62*	1	40.00	123.46	6
Yuvraj Singh	5	100	60	0	20.00	98.04	4
Suresh Raina	4	63	35*	2	31.50	128.57	2
Ajinkya Rahane	3	54	32	0	18.00	100.00	1
MS Dhoni	4	50	24	3	50.00	125.00	3
Shikhar Dhawan	3	31	30	0	10.33	83.78	0
Ravindra Jadeja	1	3	3	0	3.00	100.00	0
R Ashwin	1	2	2*	1	—	66.67	0
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	1	0	0*	1	—	0.00	0

Player	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Best	Average	Economy
R Ashwin	23.1	124	11	4/11	11.27	5.35
Amit Mishra	22.0	147	10	3/26	14.70	6.68
Ravindra Jadeja	19.0	140	5	3/48	28.00	7.37
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	19.0	103	4	1/7	25.75	5.42
Mohammed Shami	10.0	87	2	1/29	43.50	8.70
Mohit Sharma	7.0	63	2	1/11	31.50	9.00
Suresh Raina	13.0	94	1	1/24	94.00	7.23
Yuvraj Singh	1.0	13	0	—	—	13.00

Four things the 2014 figures show

Kohli made close to two-fifths of India's batting runs. The ten batters used scored 822 between them; his 319 is 38.8 per cent of that, and he passed fifty in four of six innings while being dismissed three times in the tournament. No other India batter reached 50 more than twice, and only Rohit Sharma passed 100 runs for the fortnight.

Spin took three of every four wickets. India's bowlers claimed 35; Ashwin, Mishra, Jadeja and Raina — four spinners, one of them part-time — took 27 of them, at a combined economy rate under 6.6. The three seam bowlers took eight in 36 overs. On surfaces at Mirpur that turned from the first over, Dhoni was able to open the bowling with spin and finish with it, a habit rooted in the long tradition covered in India's spin bowling heritage. Ashwin's own record across formats is on his player page.

The attack conceded 6.75 an over across the tournament. No opponent scored more than 172 and only South Africa passed 140. That is a defensive record good enough to win most tournaments; what it could not do was manufacture runs in the one innings where India had to set a target against a full-strength attack on a used surface.

Yuvraj Singh's tournament is inseparable from its last innings, and the aggregate says something the final does not. He made 100 runs in five innings at a strike rate of 98.04, the only India batter to score more than 50 runs at less than a run a ball — and 60 of the 100 came in one innings against Australia. His 11 from 21 in the final was consistent with the fortnight rather than a departure from it; the arc of his career, including the tournament that made his name, runs through his player page. India's previous campaign is covered in India at the 2012 T20 World Cup and the next in India at the 2016 T20 World Cup. Editions of the competition are indexed on the T20 World Cup hub, this one at the 2014 tournament page, with the rest of the game in the country at cricket in India.

Sources and method

Every match figure on this page — scores, overs, dismissals, individual batting and bowling — was recomputed from the ball-by-ball records for the 2014 World T20 in the Cricsheet open dataset (Cricsheet, ODC-BY 1.0), which holds all six of India's matches. The Super 10 table follows the official standings. Squad membership is the fifteen India named for the tournament. Checked in August 2026.

Balls faced include no-balls but not wides; byes and leg byes are not charged to the bowler. Averages, strike rates and economy rates in the aggregate tables are derived from the summed per-match figures rather than copied from a summary page, and are given to two decimal places.

Three figures in the closing section are calculations rather than published statistics: the 822-run batting total (which is below the sum of India's six innings scores, the difference being extras), the split of 35 wickets between spin and seam, and the tournament economy rate, which divides total runs conceded by the 685 legal deliveries India bowled. Descriptions of pitch behaviour and of Yuvraj Singh's role are interpretation, and are marked as such where they appear.