India's bid to become the first team to retain the Twenty20 World Cup will collide ​with New Zealand's quest for a maiden global white-ball crown when the finalists step on to the field at ‌the world's largest cricket stadium on Sunday.

Zimbabwe's cricket team faces a travel delay from India after West Asian airspace closures disrupted their planned return via Dubai. The squad, safe in Delhi, awaits new arrangements as the ICC works with carriers to secure alternative routes.

The left-handed batter has not been in the best of form in this tournament managing to score a fifty (55) against Zimbabwe in their Super 8 match

It needed something special to end South Africa's unbeaten run in the ​Twenty20 World Cup and New Zealand opener Finn Allen produced exactly that, the fastest hundred ‌in the tournament's history, to propel his team into the final at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday.

New Zealand has won the toss and elected to field against 2024 runner-up South Africa in the first of the Twenty20 World Cup semifinals

Speaking after an intense victory, the left-arm spinner was all praises for “yorker king” Jasprit Bumrah for his match-winning bowling spell against the Three Lions.