New Zealand vs Canada LIVE Score, T20 World Cup 2026: Kiwis eye Super 8 qualification vs CAN in Chennai; Toss, Playing XI updates

New Zealand lost to South Africa by seven wickets after winning two fairly one-sided games against Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates. A win over Dilpreet Bajwa’s Canada will take Mitch Santner’s New Zealand to six points from four games, enough to go through to the next stage.

Afghanistan will have a keen eye on the result, as a loss for New Zealand — even though highly unlikely — will keep them in contention for the Super 8.

For Canada, who got off to a poor start with losses to South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, the game against the Kiwis will be a test of their skills as they play for pride and hope to register their first win and first points in this event.

NZ vs CAN, T20 World Cup 2026 Squads

New Zealand: Tim Seifert (wk), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Kyle Jamieson, Devon Conway, Cole McConchie.

Canada: Yuvraj Samra, Dilpreet Bajwa (c), Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Harsh Thaker, Shreyas Movva (wk), Jaskaran Singh, Saad Bin Zafar, Dilon Heyliger, Kaleem Sana, Ansh Patel, Ravinderpal Singh, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Ajayveer Hundal, Shivam Sharma.

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Cleared for takeoff: The many altitudes of Glenn Phillips

New Zealand cricketer Glenn Phillips in action during T20 World Cup 2026 match against Afghanistan. (PHOTO: AP)

When Glenn Phillips is not flying on the ground, swooping on an airborne leather ball with a sudden flow of energy, he will be soaring in the sky, saddled in a cockpit, manoeuvring an aircraft several feet off the ground, shouting aviation jargon.

Phillips’s dream was to get a pilot’s licence. “If I were a rich man and not playing cricket, I would have become a pilot,” he once revealed in an NZC podcast. He was on the verge of fulfilling his dream, first sparked when he flew to Melbourne as a nine-year-old in 2015. But the prescription drugs for the ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), a condition he had suffered from since childhood, were considered addictive substances. Hence, he was denied the dream on medical grounds. (READ FULL STORY BY SANDIP G)