India 2022 T20 World Cup Squad, Results & Stats

India played six matches in Australia in October and November 2022, won four of the five in the Super 12 stage, topped their group on points and net run rate, and were then beaten by ten wickets in the Adelaide semi-final. England needed 170 and made it in sixteen overs without a wicket falling. It was the second time in thirteen months that India had lost a T20 World Cup match by that margin.

The tournament is remembered in India for one innings. On 23 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in front of a crowd of more than ninety thousand, India were 31 for 4 chasing 160 against Pakistan. Virat Kohli made 82 not out from 53 balls, added 113 with Hardik Pandya for the fifth wicket, and India won off the last ball of the match. Kohli finished the competition with 296 runs, the most by any batter, and was named player of the tournament.

Behind that, the campaign had a shape that the group table hides. India's four wins came against Pakistan, the Netherlands, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe; the one Super 12 defeat, at Perth against South Africa, was the only match in which they faced a genuinely quick attack on a bouncy surface. In Adelaide they faced an English batting side playing without restraint, and the difference between the two approaches was the whole semi-final.

Six matches across four Australian grounds

Date	Stage	Ground	Opponent	India's score	Opposition score	Result
23 Oct	Super 12	Melbourne	Pakistan	160/6 (20)	159/8 (20)	India won by 4 wickets
27 Oct	Super 12	Sydney	Netherlands	179/2 (20)	123/9 (20)	India won by 56 runs
30 Oct	Super 12	Perth	South Africa	133/9 (20)	137/5	South Africa won by 5 wickets
2 Nov	Super 12	Adelaide	Bangladesh	184/6 (20)	145/6 (16)	India won by 5 runs (DLS)
6 Nov	Super 12	Melbourne	Zimbabwe	186/5 (20)	115	India won by 71 runs
10 Nov	Semi-final	Adelaide	England	168/6 (20)	170/0 (16)	England won by 10 wickets

India batted first in four of the six and won three of those. The two chases produced the best and worst nights of the tournament: 160 hunted down off the final delivery at the MCG, and 137 conceded in Perth after being bowled out of a decent position.

Group 2, and the table India topped

Team	Played	Won	Lost	No result	Net run rate	Points
India	5	4	1	0	+1.319	8
Pakistan	5	3	2	0	+1.028	6
South Africa	5	2	2	1	+0.874	5
Netherlands	5	2	3	0	−0.849	4
Bangladesh	5	2	3	0	−1.176	4
Zimbabwe	5	1	3	1	−1.138	3

Pakistan qualified alongside India after the Netherlands beat South Africa in the final round of group matches — a result that removed the side who had beaten India at Perth. India were the only team in either group to win four matches outright.

Melbourne, 23 October: 31 for 4, and the last ball

Pakistan made 159 for 8 after being 15 for 2 in the third over. Shan Masood's 52 from 42 and Iftikhar Ahmed's 51 from 34 rebuilt it; Arshdeep Singh took 3 for 32 and Hardik Pandya 3 for 30, and Pakistan lost five wickets in the last five overs.

India then lost KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Axar Patel for 31. Kohli and Pandya put on 113 in eleven overs, and the last over produced sixteen runs off a sequence that included a free hit, a wide down the leg side that went for four byes, and a stumping chance that was called a no-ball. Kohli's two sixes off Haris Rauf in the nineteenth over, both straight, are the shots the match is remembered by. His record in chases of this kind is set out on his player page, and the fixture's longer history is in the guide to the India–Pakistan rivalry.

Sydney and Adelaide: 179, then 184

The Netherlands match on 27 October was the most straightforward of the six. Rohit Sharma made 53 from 39 and Kohli 62 not out from 44, and Suryakumar Yadav's 51 not out from 25 balls came off the last four overs. India made 179 for 2 and bowled the Netherlands out for 123 with six bowlers taking wickets, none of them conceding more than 37.

Bangladesh at Adelaide on 2 November was closer than the margin suggests. India made 184 for 6, Rahul's 50 from 32 his first substantial score of the tournament and Kohli's 64 not out the anchor. Bangladesh reached 66 for 0 in seven overs — Litton Das made 60 from 27 — before rain took the game away and set a revised target. On resumption Das was run out immediately and Bangladesh, needing 85 from 54, finished five short. Arshdeep took 2 for 38, Pandya 2 for 28.

Zimbabwe at the MCG on 6 November was decided by Suryakumar Yadav, whose 61 not out came from 25 balls and included four sixes. India made 186 for 5 and bowled Zimbabwe out for 115, R Ashwin taking 3 for 22.

Perth, 30 October: the one they lost

India batted on the fastest surface of the tournament and were 49 for 5 in the tenth over. Wayne Parnell took 3 for 15, Lungi Ngidi 4 for 29 with the ball moving off the seam, and Kohli made 12 from 11 — his only failure of the competition.

Suryakumar Yadav made 68 from 40 with six fours and three sixes, and it was the innings that established him as the best short-form batter in the side. He hit sixes over point and third man, played square of the wicket on a ground where most batters were hitting straight, and got India to 133 for 9 from a position where 110 looked likely. South Africa lost three wickets for 24 and then Aiden Markram's 52 and David Miller's 59 took them home with two balls left.

The defeat was the only one India suffered in the group and it did not cost qualification, but it exposed a pattern that the semi-final would confirm: on a pitch where the ball came on quickly, India's top order had no answer beyond one batter improvising. Suryakumar's rise through that period is covered on his player page.

Adelaide, 10 November: 169 chased without a wicket

England put India in. Rohit Sharma made 27 from 28, Kohli 50 from 40 and Suryakumar 14 from 10, and India were 75 for 3 at the halfway mark. Pandya's 63 from 33 with five sixes lifted the total to 168 for 6, with 68 runs coming from the last five overs. Chris Jordan took 3 for 43.

Jos Buttler and Alex Hales then made 170 without being separated. Hales hit seven sixes in 86 from 47, Buttler 80 from 49. India used six bowlers; none took a wicket, and the only one to concede fewer than eight an over was Arshdeep Singh, who bowled two overs for 15. England reached the target with twenty-four balls unused, and it remains the only ten-wicket defeat India have suffered in a World Cup semi-final in either limited-overs format.

The result closed a period rather than a tournament. Rohit Sharma did not captain India in a T20 international for more than a year afterwards; Rahul Dravid's side moved away from the approach that had produced 168 from twenty overs on a ground where England needed sixteen. What replaced it is described in the account of the 2024 campaign, which India won.

The fifteen, and India's leading players

Player	Matches	Runs	Balls	Strike rate	Wickets	Best
Virat Kohli	6	296	217	136.4	—	—
Suryakumar Yadav	6	239	126	189.7	—	—
KL Rahul	6	128	106	120.8	—	—
Hardik Pandya	6	128	97	132.0	8	3/30
Rohit Sharma (capt)	6	116	109	106.4	—	—
R Ashwin	6	21	18	116.7	6	3/22
Arshdeep Singh	6	2	1	—	10	3/32
Mohammed Shami	6	0	2	—	6	2/14
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	6	4	6	—	4	2/9
Axar Patel	5	9	9	100.0	3	2/18
Dinesh Karthik	3	14	22	63.6	—	—
Rishabh Pant	2	9	9	100.0	—	—
Deepak Hooda	1	0	3	—	—	—

Thirteen of the fifteen played. Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel did not, which meant India went through a World Cup in Australia without using a wrist spinner. Jasprit Bumrah had been ruled out before the tournament with a stress-related back injury and was replaced by Mohammed Shami; Ravindra Jadeja had gone earlier with a knee injury sustained at the Asia Cup, and Axar Patel took his place.

Arshdeep Singh's ten wickets were the most by any India bowler and came in his first global tournament, at 24. He took a wicket in the first over of four of the six matches. His later work is on his player page. The keeping was split three ways: Karthik played three matches, Pant two, and Rahul kept in none of them.

Reading the numbers back

Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav made 535 of India's 966 runs in the tournament — 55 per cent from two batters in a side that used eight. Rohit Sharma and Rahul, the opening pair, made 244 between them from 215 balls; in a competition where the fastest scoring came at the top of the innings, India's openers went at 113 per hundred balls.

The bowling numbers are more even than the semi-final suggests. Across the six matches India's attack took 37 wickets at 22.4 and conceded 7.6 an over, and in five of the six they kept the opposition under 160. The exception was the one that ended the campaign, and in it the two England openers scored more runs than any full India innings of the tournament except the 186 at the MCG.

The comparison that matters is with the 2021 tournament in the UAE, where India did not reach the knockouts at all. In 2022 the group stage was solved; the problem had moved one round later. The tournament sits within the wider record on the T20 World Cup archive and in the guide to India's T20 international history, and the home game around it is covered on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Scores, individual innings, bowling figures and wicket details on this page were compiled from ball-by-ball records of the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup and cross-checked against the published scorecard for each of India's six matches. Super 12 Group 2 standings, including net run rates, come from the tournament's official points table.

Player aggregates count only India's six matches. Strike rates are runs per hundred balls faced, with wides excluded from the ball count; they are left blank for batters who faced fewer than five deliveries, where the figure would be meaningless. Bowling averages quoted in the closing section cover the attack as a whole across the tournament rather than any individual.

Squad details follow the fifteen named for the tournament, including the two injury replacements made before it began. Contextual points — the reason for a selection, the sequence of events in the last over at Melbourne, the DLS revision at Adelaide — are drawn from contemporary reporting and are descriptive rather than derived from the scorecard. Figures current as of 20 August 2026.