Highest 8th Wicket Partnership in T20 World Cup For India

It’s been really in rarest of rare matches that India’s 8^th wicket pair had to come out in the open playing a memorable knocks at World T20 Championship. Most of the times, India’s formidable batting line up manage the task of scoring big runs. Until now, a total of 5 T20 World Cups have already been held at various venues but in only 8 occasions did India have lost 7 or more wickets in a match. Ace off-spinner Harbhajan Singh had shown superb patience and experience down the order and was involved in 5 times batting for the 8^th wicket partnership.

The memory of India-Australia low scoring match at Bridgetown during T20 World Cup 2010 is still afresh in everyone’s mind. Harbhajan Singh and Rohit Sharma helped India reach a three-figure-mark when at one stage the team looked miserable at 50 for 7. But duo played really some aggressive cricket managing 47 runs in just 4 overs. But in the subsequent editions of the T20 World cup India couldn’t manage much runs for its 8^th wicket stand. Interestingly, after 2010, there are only two times when India had lost 7 or more wickets in World T20 match. Here is the complete statistics.

Highest 8^th Wicket Partnership for India in T20 World Cup