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Canada vs New Zealand Scorecard, Match 31, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 17 2026, Tue - 11:00 AM (IST)
CANADA173/4
NEW ZEALAND176/2
New Zealand won by 8 wickets
CRR:11.6
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 17 2026, Tue - 11:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Chennai |
| Venue: | M.A. Chidambaram Stadium |
| Toss: | Canada won the toss and elected to bat. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Finn Allen, Tim Seifert (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell (c), Cole McConchie, James Neesham, Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy |
| Canada Playing XI: | Yuvraj Samra, Dilpreet Singh Bajwa (c), Navneet Dhaliwal, Harsh Thaker, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva (wk), Saad Bin Zafar, Shivam Sharma, Dilon Heyliger, Jaskaran Singh Buttar, Ansh Patel |
- This is set to be the first men’s T20I between New Zealand and Canada; the Black Caps have won 14 of all their 15 matches in the format against ICC Associate Member teams (L1 vs United Arab Emirates, 19 August 2023) while Canada have lost their last two games against ICC Full Member teams after winning their previous two.
- New Zealand have lost the coin toss on the day in each of their last seven men’s T20Is, going on to win three of those seven matches (L4) – only once have they recorded a longer run of losing the toss in the history of the format (8 games from November 2021 to July 2022).
- Canada have lost both of their two men’s T20Is in 2026, after winning 13 of their 14 matches prior in the format (L1); only three times have they started a calendar year on a longer losing run (L5 in 2024, L4 in 2012, L3 in 2025).
- New Zealand have won all their three men’s T20Is at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk; only at Harare Sports Club (W8) and University Oval in Dunedin (W5) the Black Caps have played more matches in the history of the format and maintained a 100% win rate.
- Canada have scored 150+ runs in their last two ICC Men’s T20 World Cup batting innings – the first time they’ve done so in back-to-back games in the tournament; though, they’ve scored at a rate of 7.7 runs per over in 2026 overall which is their second lowest in any of their last seven years (7.3 in 2024).
- New Zealand have scored an average of 44.4 runs per wicket lost and have a batting strike rate of 166 at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, significantly higher than they’ve had in either category at any other previous edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
- Dilpreet Bajwa (4) is one away from surpassing Rayyan Pathan (4) for the outright third most 50+ scores for Canada in men’s T20Is (Navneet Dhaliwal – 10, Aaron Johnson – 8); although, he’s scored fewer than 15 runs in each of his last three innings in the format (12, 0, 11).
- Tim Seifert (15) is one away from surpassing Brendon McCullum (15) for the outright third most 50+ scores for New Zealand in men’s T20Is (Martin Guptill – 22, Kane Williamson – 18); he’s scored 60+ in three of his last five innings in the format (62, 5, 65, 89*, 13).
- Saad Bin Zafar (Canada) has taken nine wickets at an average of 12.7 across his last six T20I bowling innings, including 3-14 against United Arab Emirates last time out; the last time he logged three or more wickets in consecutive innings in the format was a two-match span in April 2025.
- Matt Henry (46) is four away from taking 50 wickets for New Zealand in men’s T20Is; although, his tally of 46 wickets is the most of any player for the Black Caps without recording an innings of 4+ wickets in the format.