India at the 2024 T20 World Cup: Results & Squad

India played nine matches at the 2024 T20 World Cup, won eight and had one abandoned. They are the only men's side to have won the tournament without losing a match. The final, at the Kensington Oval in Barbados on 29 June, was decided by seven runs after South Africa had needed 30 from thirty balls with six wickets standing.

The competition was the first with twenty teams and the first held in the United States, and India's group stage was played entirely in New York, on a drop-in pitch at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium that produced the three lowest totals of their tournament. India made 97 for 2, 119 and 111 for 3 there and won all three. From the Super 8s onwards, in the Caribbean, they made 181, 196, 205, 171 and 176.

Two bowlers did most of it. Jasprit Bumrah took 15 wickets at 8.26 and conceded 4.17 an over across eight matches, and was player of the tournament. Arshdeep Singh took 17, level with Afghanistan's Fazalhaq Farooqi at the top of the competition's list. India's leading run scorer, Rohit Sharma with 257, finished second in the tournament behind Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 281.

Nine matches, two countries

Date	Stage	Venue	Opponent	Scores	Result
5 Jun	Group A	New York	Ireland	Ireland 96; India 97/2	India won by 8 wickets
9 Jun	Group A	New York	Pakistan	India 119; Pakistan 113/7	India won by 6 runs
12 Jun	Group A	New York	USA	USA 110/8; India 111/3	India won by 7 wickets
15 Jun	Group A	Lauderhill	Canada	No play	Abandoned
20 Jun	Super 8	Bridgetown	Afghanistan	India 181/8; Afghanistan 134	India won by 47 runs
22 Jun	Super 8	North Sound	Bangladesh	India 196/5; Bangladesh 146/8	India won by 50 runs
24 Jun	Super 8	Gros Islet	Australia	India 205/5; Australia 181/7	India won by 24 runs
27 Jun	Semi-final	Providence	England	India 171/7; England 103	India won by 68 runs
29 Jun	Final	Bridgetown	South Africa	India 176/7; South Africa 169/8	India won by 7 runs

India batted second twice and both times chased under 115. In the six innings they batted first, they were bowled out once — for 119 against Pakistan — and won that match anyway. Their scoring rate across the three New York games was 7.86, 6.26 and 6.05; across the five Caribbean games it was 9.05, 9.80, 10.25, 8.55 and 8.80.

Rohit's fifteen, and the three who did not play

Player	Contribution
Rohit Sharma (capt)	257 runs at a strike rate of 156.70 — 92 v Australia, 57 in the semi-final
Virat Kohli	151 runs at 18.87 — one score above 24, and it was 76 in the final
Suryakumar Yadav	199 runs and the catch at long-off that ended the final
Rishabh Pant (wk)	171 runs in eight innings, top score 42
Shivam Dube	133 runs at a strike rate of 114.65
Hardik Pandya	144 runs at 48.00 and 11 wickets — 3/20 in the final
Ravindra Jadeja	35 runs and one wicket in eight matches
Axar Patel	92 runs and 9 wickets — 3/23 in the semi-final, 47 in the final
Kuldeep Yadav	10 wickets in five matches — 3/19 twice
Jasprit Bumrah	15 wickets at 8.26, economy 4.17 — player of the tournament
Arshdeep Singh	17 wickets at 12.64 — 4/9 v USA
Mohammed Siraj	Three matches, one wicket, economy 5.18
Yashasvi Jaiswal	Did not play
Sanju Samson	Did not play
Yuzvendra Chahal	Did not play

Twelve of the fifteen played. India settled on a side after the second match and did not change it except to bring Kuldeep Yadav in for Siraj once the tournament moved to the Caribbean, which is why Chahal, Samson and Jaiswal all went home without an appearance.

The balance is worth noting because it is unusual for India: two seamers, three spinners or spin-capable bowlers in Kuldeep, Axar and Jadeja, and Hardik Pandya as the fourth seam option. Rahul Dravid was coach, in his last assignment in the job. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja all retired from Twenty20 internationals after the final.

New York, 9 June: 119 defended

The Nassau County ground was built for the tournament and its pitch behaved unlike anything else in the competition. Against Ireland on 5 June India bowled the opposition out for 96 and chased it in 12.2 overs. Against the United States on 12 June they conceded 110 for 8 and chased it in 18.2. Between those two came the match of the group.

India were bowled out for 119 in 19 overs against Pakistan, Rishabh Pant making 42 from 31 balls and nobody else passing 20. Pakistan needed 120 and were 80 for 3 in the fourteenth over. They finished on 113 for 7. Bumrah took 3 for 14 from four overs and was player of the match; Hardik Pandya took 2 for 24 and Arshdeep Singh 2 for 31.

It is the lowest total India have defended in a men's T20 World Cup and the smallest first-innings score anyone has successfully defended against Pakistan in the competition. The wider record between the two sides is set out in the India–Pakistan rivalry guide.

Bridgetown and North Sound: two comfortable Super 8 wins

Against Afghanistan at the Kensington Oval on 20 June, India made 181 for 8 with Suryakumar Yadav scoring 53 from 28 balls, and Afghanistan were bowled out for 134. Bumrah's four overs cost seven runs and took three wickets, which is the best economy return of India's tournament.

Two days later at North Sound, Antigua, India made 196 for 5 — Hardik Pandya 50 not out from 27 balls, Rishabh Pant 36 — and Bangladesh finished on 146 for 8. Kuldeep Yadav took 3 for 19 in his first match of the competition.

Neither game was close. Together they are the reason India went into the Australia match already needing only to avoid a heavy defeat.

Gros Islet, 24 June: 92 from 41 balls

India's highest total of the tournament came at the Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia. Rohit Sharma made 92 from 41 balls with seven fours and eight sixes, taking 29 from a single Mitchell Starc over, and India reached 205 for 5. Suryakumar Yadav made 31 and Shivam Dube 28 not out.

Australia replied with 181 for 7, Travis Head making 76 from 43 balls. Arshdeep Singh took 3 for 37 and Kuldeep Yadav 2 for 24. The 24-run margin was enough to end Australia's tournament and it remains Rohit Sharma's highest score in a T20 World Cup.

Providence, 27 June: England for 103

The semi-final at Providence in Guyana started late after rain and India batted first on a slow pitch, making 171 for 7. Rohit Sharma made 57 from 39 balls and Suryakumar Yadav 47 from 36; Chris Jordan took 3 for 37.

England, the defending champions, were bowled out for 103 in 16.4 overs. Axar Patel took 3 for 23 and Kuldeep Yadav 3 for 19; between them the two left-arm spinners bowled eight overs for 42 runs and six wickets. Jasprit Bumrah conceded twelve runs from his four. It is the largest margin by which a defending men's T20 World Cup champion has lost a knockout match.

Bridgetown, 29 June: 30 from thirty balls, and seven runs

India made 176 for 7. Virat Kohli, who had made 75 runs in his previous seven innings of the tournament, scored 76 from 59 balls; Axar Patel made 47 from 31 and Shivam Dube 27. Keshav Maharaj took 2 for 23 and Anrich Nortje 2 for 26.

South Africa were 147 for 4 in the fifteenth over with Heinrich Klaasen having made 52 from 27 balls, and needed 30 from thirty deliveries. Hardik Pandya then bowled Klaasen with the first ball of the seventeenth over. Bumrah bowled the eighteenth for two runs and a wicket, Arshdeep Singh the nineteenth for four. Hardik bowled the last over with sixteen needed; David Miller hit the first ball to long-off, where Suryakumar Yadav caught it inches inside the boundary.

South Africa finished on 169 for 8. Hardik Pandya took 3 for 20, Bumrah 2 for 18 from four overs, Arshdeep 2 for 20. Kohli was player of the match and retired from the format immediately afterwards; the detail of Hardik Pandya's role across the campaign is in Hardik Pandya at the 2024 T20 World Cup, and Rahul Dravid's spell as coach in Dravid's coaching career.

Rohit 257, Arshdeep 17, Bumrah 15

Player	Tournament figures
Rohit Sharma	257 runs at 36.71, strike rate 156.70, fifteen sixes
Suryakumar Yadav	199 runs at 28.42 with two fifties
Rishabh Pant	171 runs at 24.42
Virat Kohli	151 runs at 18.87 — 76 of them in the final
Hardik Pandya	144 runs at 48.00 and 11 wickets at 17.36
Arshdeep Singh	17 wickets at 12.64 — joint-leading wicket taker
Jasprit Bumrah	15 wickets at 8.26, economy 4.17
Kuldeep Yadav	10 wickets at 13.90 in five matches
Axar Patel	9 wickets at 19.22

Bumrah's economy rate of 4.17 across 29.4 overs in a Twenty20 tournament is the number that defines the campaign. He bowled two maidens, conceded 124 runs in total, and took a wicket every 11.8 balls. Arshdeep Singh's 17 wickets came at a rate of 7.16 an over, which is a different kind of bowling doing a different job — he bowled the powerplay and the twentieth over in most matches.

Kohli's 151 runs at 18.87 is the other number worth sitting with. He made 1, 4, 0, 0, 24, 37, 9 and 76: seven innings that would have cost most players their place, and then the highest score of the final.

Four readings of the 2024 record

The New York pitch shaped India's tournament more than any selection did. Three matches, three totals under 120 by one side or the other, and India's slowest scoring of the competition. Winning a low-scoring group in conditions nobody had played in before is a different skill from what the Caribbean asked, and India were the only side to do both without a defeat.

The bowling was the constant and the batting was not. India conceded 96, 113, 110, 134, 146, 181, 103 and 169 — one total above 181 in eight completed matches. Their own scores ranged from 97 to 205. Bumrah, Arshdeep, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel took 62 of the wickets between them.

Three of the eight wins were tight and India won all three. Six runs against Pakistan, 24 against Australia with a target of 206 to defend, seven in the final from a position South Africa should have converted. An unbeaten record is not the same thing as a comfortable one.

It ended three international Twenty20 careers at once. Rohit Sharma, Kohli and Jadeja all stopped playing the format after Barbados, having between them appeared in every T20 World Cup India had entered since 2007. The side that won in 2026 shared only a handful of names with this one, as India at the 2026 T20 World Cup sets out.

The first title, seventeen years earlier in South Africa, is covered in India at the 2007 T20 World Cup; the two campaigns before this one in India at the 2022 T20 World Cup. Every edition is indexed on the T20 World Cup hub, the growth of the format in India in T20 international cricket in India, and the rest of the game under cricket in India.

Sources and method

Results, dates, venues, margins, innings totals, individual scores and bowling analyses come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru, filtered to India's Twenty20 internationals played between 1 June and 5 July 2024, and were read on 20 August 2026. The tournament leaderboards — Gurbaz's 281 runs, Arshdeep Singh and Fazalhaq Farooqi on 17 wickets — are the published competition lists rather than a date filter, because other Twenty20 internationals were played elsewhere in the same weeks.

The squad of fifteen is the party the BCCI named; the note that Jaiswal, Samson and Chahal did not appear is a count from the match records. Detail a statistical filter does not carry — the drop-in pitch in New York, the over-by-over sequence at the end of the final, the catch at long-off, the retirements announced afterwards — comes from contemporary reports and ICC material, and is descriptive rather than computed.

Two claims are stated as records and were checked against the wider competition lists rather than India's matches alone: that India are the only men's side to have won a T20 World Cup unbeaten, and that 119 is the lowest total India have defended in the competition. Scoring rates quoted per match are the runs-per-over figures Statsguru reports for each innings. The four closing observations are analysis, not data.