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Pakistan vs New Zealand Score, Super Eight Match 1 of ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 21 2026, Sat - 07:00 PM (IST)
New Zealand Pakistan Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 21 2026, Sat - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Toss: | Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. |
| New Zealand Squad: | Finn Allen, Tim Seifert (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson |
| Pakistan Squad: | Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha (c), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Usman Khan (wk), Shadab Khan, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Nawaz, Salman Ali Mirza, Usman Tariq |
Match Facts
- Sahibzada Farhan has hit 11 sixes at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, the most of any player from Group A during the group stage and just one shy of equaling the most by a Pakistan batter at a single edition of the tournament (Mohammad Rizwan – 12 in 2021).
- Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand) has taken at least one wicket all but one of his 12 innings at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including his last seven in a row; however, the only match he failed to take a wicket in was against Pakistan during the Super 10 stage of the 2022 tournament.
- Tim Seifert (New Zealand) has scored either more than 60 (twice) or less than 20 runs (four times) in each of his six ICC Men’s T20 World Cup innings and was dismissed for just eight runs in his only innings against Pakistan at the tournament; though, he’s scored 40+ runs in five of his last six T20I innings against Pakistan overall including two half centuries and a knock of 97 runs when he last faced them.
- New Zealand have a batting average of 50.6 and have scored at a rate of 10.4 runs per over at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, their best rates in either category at a single edition of the tournament; indeed, they’ve scored at a rate of at least 10 runs per over in three of their four innings this tournament after doing so only twice across all previous appearances.
- Pakistan have lost only three of their last 13 matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (W9 T1), while only against Bangladesh (6) have they won more matches at the tournament than they have against New Zealand (5).
- Pakistan have won six of their last seven men’s T20Is, including a 102-run win against Namibia in their last fixture; in fact, their 78% win rate in the format in 2026 is their best in a calendar year since 2018 (89%, 17/19).
- New Zealand have won only three of their last 10 men’s T20Is in Sri Lanka (T2 L5) and have won only one of their four matches against teams other than Sri Lanka in the country (T1 L2).
- Each of New Zealand’s four matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 have been won by the team batting second on the day with the Black Caps winning three of those four games; in fact, New Zealand have won their last three straight matches when they’ve lost the toss and batted second on the day after winning only one of their previous eight such fixtures.
- Pakistan have won five of their seven matches against New Zealand at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including their last two in a row; in fact, the last time they lost to the Black Caps at the tournament was in the Super 10 stage of the 2016 tournament.
- New Zealand have won six of their last eight men’s T20Is against Pakistan including their last two in a row and have won 23 total matches against them in the format which is their most against any opponent; in fact, this will be the 50th men’s T20I between New Zealand and Pakistan.