West Indies Cricket Team vs Zimbabwe National Cricket Team Match: Zimbabwe won the toss and opted to bowl first against the West Indies cricket team in their Super 8 Group 1 clash of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday, February 23, 2026.
Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza said the decision was based on the venue’s history of successful run chases. “ We're going to have a bowl first. Looking at the games that were played in Mumbai and also looking at the history, it looks like it's a ground that is a lot suitable for chasing and also our seamers have done so well. It looks like a good deck, but we want our seamers to have the best chance to try and make early inroads. (On adapting to these conditions) We've never played, but I said that yesterday as well. Imagine being the only country that comes here once and win one. That's certainly a great record to have at such an iconic ground in the world as well. This ground has got such a beautiful history and if we can write our name in the history books as well, that would be brilliant. We've got one change. Richard Ngarava has been declared fit, so he replaces Wellington Masakadza. (Ambition) Yeah, certainly it's an honour to play world champions at an iconic ground like this, but certainly if you can put our best foot forward and get a good result for our country as well, then it's certainly something to be very proud of and take those two points into the next game,” Raza said as quoted by .
West Indies captain Shai Hope said he would have chosen to bowl as well. “We would have probably bowled first as well. (On having god memories at this ground) That's in the past, we've got good history behind us, but regardless, we've got to play cricket well on the day. Again, we've got some nice confidence going into this round, but still, we've got to play well on the day. One change. Romario Shepherd comes back in. Roston Chase misses out,” Hope said.
Playing XIs
Zimbabwe (Playing XI): Brian Bennett, Tadiwanashe Marumani(w), Ryan Burl, Sikandar Raza(c), Tashinga Musekiwa, Tony Munyonga, Dion Myers, Brad Evans, Graeme Cremer, Richard Ngarava, Blessing Muzarabani
West Indies (Playing XI): Brandon King, Shai Hope(w/c), Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd, Jason Holder, Matthew Forde, Akeal Hosein, Gudakesh Motie, Shamar Joseph
