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India’s Ten Lowest Scores in T20 Internationals

The winner of the inaugural men’s T20 World Cup, team India is one of the victorious sides with the bat in the game’s shortest format.

Their modern-day duo Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma rule most of the T20 batting charts. They have also seen the T20 greats like MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag representing them.

Without any surprise, they are leading the charts of teams who have teamed up for the most 200+ T20 totals and added the most number of T20I hundreds by teams.

Even then, there have been rare instances where their batting line-up has failed.

The Men in Blue bundling out for 74 runs in 2008 against Australia in a T20 match in Melbourne is the lowest score of Team India in T20Is.

This table below will list the top ten lowest T20I team totals of team India.

Top 10 Lowest Scores of India in T20Is

LOWEST TOTALSAGAINSTINNINGSVENUEYEAR
74Australia1Melbourne2008
79New Zealand2Nagpur2016
81/8Sri Lanka1Colombo (RPS)2021
92South Africa1Cuttack2015
101Sri Lanka1Pune2016
102/10Zimbabwe2Harare2024
110/7New Zealand1Dubai (DSC)2021
118/8South Africa2Nottingham2009
118Australia1Guwahati2017
119Pakistan1New York2024

Key Stats

Team India wrapped by New Zealand for 79 in a 2016 World Cup league game is the lowest score of India while batting second and in a World Cup match. It is also the lowest T20 total for India at home. A bad night, indeed!

India’s winning total of 138/6 against Zimbabwe in Harare in 2016 is the lowest total defended by India in a T20 match. Can you guess the lowest ever total defended by any team in the format? Check here.

Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, England, and New Zealand are placed twice in the opponent column correspondingly.

Related: Which is the lowest T20 total scored by any team?

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