{"id":140769,"date":"2026-03-12T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=140769"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:39:03","slug":"sanju-samson-abhishek-sharma-record-first-50-run-opening-partnership-in-t20-world-cup-finals-during-india-vs-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=140769","title":{"rendered":"Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma record first 50-run opening partnership in T20 World Cup finals during India vs New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70719244\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">India\u2019s Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma recorded the first 50-run opening partnership in a T20 World Cup final, during the title clash against New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Samson and Abhishek took on the Kiwis\u2019 new-ball bowlers as they brought up their fifty-run stand in just four overs. The Indian pair had already smashed five fours and three sixes by that point.<\/p>\n<p>The previous highest opening partnership in a T20 World Cup final was 48, by Pakistan\u2019s Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib Hasan in 2009, against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The previous best by an Indian pair was 25, by Gautam Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan in 2007, against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Mar 08, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/sanju-samson-abhishek-sharma-fifty-opening-partnership-first-t20-world-cup-final-india-vs-new-zealand\/article70719244.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma recorded the first 50-run opening partnership in a T20 World Cup final, during the title clash against New Zealand in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Samson and Abhishek took on the Kiwis\u2019 new-ball bowlers as they brought up their fifty-run stand in just four overs. The Indian pair had already smashed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PTI03_05_2026_000446B.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-ACt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}