England vs Italy 29th Match ICC T20 World Cup 2026 Highlights

Watch the highlights of England vs Italy - The 29th match of the 2026 ICC T20 World Cup Twenty20 International cricket tournament first time between England and Italy, played at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on February 16, 2026.

Will Jacks smashed a career-best 53 off 22 balls © Getty Images

Will Jacks' whirlwind maiden half-century, Three-wickets hauls from Jamie Overton, Sam Curran and Jofra Archer's two wickets helped to England registered their historic first T20I win against Italy by a 21-runs, despite a Ben Manenti's blitz and England make it 4 wins in a row to qualify for Super Eights in the 29th match of a ICC T20 World Cup.

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England's 24-run win was seventh largest victory by terms of runs in T20 World Cups. 54 : Sam Curran and Will Jacks set up the fifth highest sixth-wicket partnership for England in T20 international and the England's highest sixth-wicket stand in T20Is, previously held by the 42-run stand between Owais Shah and Luke Wright against New Zealand at Durban in the inaugural 2007 World Twenty20. Will Jacks equalled a 21-ball joint ninth fastest fifty for England in T20 international, jointly with Phil Salt and while Eoin Morgan hit twice and the fastest fifty by an England batsman in T20 World Cups, surpassing the previous record of 25-ball half-century jointly held by Eoin Morgan against West Indies at Pallekele in the 2012 World Twenty20 and Jos Buttler against Australia at Dubai (DICS) in the 2021 T20 World Cup. England's 202 was their second highest score in World Twenty20 after his 230 against South Africa at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in the 2016 World Twenty20. Italy's 178 was their fourth highest score in T20 international and It is their highest total in T20 World Cups, previous highest was 134 against Scotland at Kolkata earlier in this tournament.

England scored 202-7 in 20 overs with top scorer by Will Jacks hammered a unbeaten 53 off 22-balls, Tom Banton blasted a 30 off 21-balls including 3-fours & a six with strike rate of 142.85.

Phil Salt hammered a 28 off 15-balls including 2-sixes & 2-fours with strike rate of 186.66, Sam Curran struck 25 off 19-balls including 2-sixes, Jacob Bethell hit 23 off 20-balls included 2-fours & a six and Jamie Overton hit 15 off 9-balls contained one-six & a four with strike rate of 166.66.

Italy best bowler by Crishan Kalugamage, Grant Stewart both captured 2-wickets, JJ Smuts, Ali Hasan and Ben Manenti each took one-wickets.

Italy bowled out for 178 in exact 20 overs with top scorer by Ben Manenti hammered a 60 off 25-balls including 6-sixes & 4-fours with strike rate of 240.

Grant Stewart struck 45 off 23-balls including 5-sixes & 2-fours with strike rate of 195.65 and Justin Mosca hit 43 off 34-balls included 7-fours.

England best bowler by Jamie Overton picked up 3-wickets for 18-runs in 4-overs, Sam Curran captured three-wickets for 22-runs in 3-overs, Jofra Archer took 2-wickets and one for Will Jacks - Adil Rashid.

Will Jacks named Player of the match for his whirlwind batting performance to smashed a career-best unbeaten 53 off facing 22-balls including 4-sixes & 2-fours with strike rate of 240.90.

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