Dutt removes both openers

Wed, 18 February 2026
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India 44-2 (5 ovs) vs Netherlands | Scorecard

Colin Ackermann comes into the attack and Tilak Varma plays out two dots before picking up single by toe-ending a reverse sweep. 

Six! Ishan Kishan charges down and hammers a full toss over deep extra cover and deposits it into the stands. 

Follows it up with a single through extra cover. 

A dot later, Tilak goes down and sweeps full delivery on leg for a boundary through fine leg.

12 runs came off the over. 


Aryan Dutt with his third over and Kishan greets him by pulling a shortish delivery over mid-wicket for four runs. 

Out! Kishan is out, bowled. Short of a length delivery and Ishan attempts to whip it over backward square but misses. The ball after hitting his thigh pad falls onto the stumps.

He goes after a 7-ball 18 with two boundaries and a six. 

India have lost both openers inside five overs. Dutt has accounted for both.

Suryakumar Yadav is the new man in and he gets off the mark with a single through mid-wicket. 

A dot later, Tilak flicks one through mid-wicket for a boundary. 

A dot to end the over. 9 runs came off it.