3 teams against whom India has a 100 percent win record in T20Is

The T20 format gained everyone's attention when the ICC organized the inaugural T20 World Cup in the year 2007. Before that, the format was generally used for exhibition matches; however, after MS Dhoni guided India to the trophy in South Africa, the shortest format of cricket became the most popular one.

With the onset of the IPL and other T20 leagues, T20 specialists have become the need of the hour. Teams like West Indies have achieved plenty of success in this format because their players have hone their T20 skills to perfection. And aside from the Caribbean team, even India has achieved a lot of success in the format, having won 75 of the 120 T20I matches they have played so far.

While most of the top-tier sides have recorded at least one T20I victory over India, there are three Test-playing nations that are yet to defeat the men in blue. In this article, we take a look at those three teams -

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#3 Ireland

Ireland v India - ICC Twenty20 World Cup

The Irish cricket team came into the public eye when they upset Pakistan in the ICC World Cup 2007. They became a regular fixture in global cricket tournaments after that, and they even recorded memorable wins over England and West Indies in the 50-over World Cup.

Ireland had a wonderful T20 World Cup debut as they defeated Bangladesh to register their first T20 win against a Test-playing country. Till date, Ireland has won 39 T20I games - but none of those victories have come against India.

India faced Ireland in the group stage of the ICC T20 World Cup 2009, where they defeated the men in green by 8 wickets. Their next match happened nine years later as India toured Ireland to play a two-match T20I series. The 2007 T20 World Cup winners won the first game by 76 runs before crushing the home side by 143 runs in the second match.

Thus, India has won all of its 3 T20I matches against Ireland.

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#2 Bangladesh

Bangladesh v India - ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014

Bangladesh will visit India soon to play a three-match T20I series. But the Bangladeshi fans wouldn't be too excited about it because their side has never won a T20I match against India.

The two teams met for the first time in the T20I format during the 2009 T20 World Cup at Trent Bridge, and India won that contest by 25 runs. Next, the two teams met in the 2014 T20 World Cup, where India defeated the hosts by 8 wickets.

In 2016, India registered three T20I wins over Bangladesh - two of them in the Asia Cup and one in the group stage of the 2016 T20 World Cup. During that World Cup match, Bangladesh had to score two runs off three balls but they still fell short and gifted the win to Team India.

India and Bangladesh later took part in a T20I tri-series in Sri Lanka where the Rohit Sharma-led outfit handed losses to Bangladesh in two league matches as well as the final. Bangladesh were very close to a win in the final, but a special effort from Dinesh Karthik denied them a victory.

#1 Afghanistan

India v Afghanistan - ICC World Twenty20 2012: Group A

One of the most improved cricketing nations this decade, Afghanistan have repeatedly made headlines with their heroics on the field. Be it playing out a tied ODI match against India in the Asia Cup, defeating Pakistan in the ICC World Cup warm-up match or crushing Bangladesh in their first ever overseas Test match, Afghanistan have done it all.

They have even defeated two-time World Cup winners West Indies in a T20 World Cup match.

Despite the many things that the Afghan nation has accomplished in the last few years, the one thing they are yet to do is defeat India in the T20 format. India have battled Afghanistan in two T20I matches so far, and they have comprehensively beaten them on both the occasions.

Interestingly, both the matches took place as part of the ICC T20 World Cup. Their first meeting was in 2010 at the Darren Sammy International Cricket Stadium, where Ashish Nehra’s three-wicket haul helped India secure the win.

The two Asian countries went head-to-head in the succeeding T20 World Cup as well; in that game, Lakshmipathy Balaji’s 3/13 did the trick for the men in blue.