India Became T20 World Champion For The Second Time By Defeating South Africa

T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: India has won the T20 World Cup title for the second time by defeating South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup. The Indian team has become the ICC T20 champion again after 17 years.

T20 World Cup 2024 Final: India has won the T20 World Cup title for the second time by defeating South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup. The Indian team had earlier won the World Cup in the year 2007. The hero of India's victory was Virat Kohli, who played an innings of 76 runs. He has been given the Player of the Match award. The final match was very exciting and India won the match on the last ball.   (Scorecard)

The match was quite exciting

Akshar Patel, who came to bowl the 15th over of the South African innings, scored 24 runs in the over and Heinrich Klaasen pushed India completely on the backfoot in the match at one point. After the completion of 15 overs, South Africa needed 30 runs in 30 balls to win, but after this Bumrah gave only four runs in his next over. Hardik, who came to bowl the 17th over of the match, took the wicket of Klaasen on the very first ball of the over and gave only 4 runs in this over. Bumrah, who came to bowl the 18th over of the match, gave only 2 runs in the last over of his spell and during this he also took a wicket. The Indian team had made a comeback in the match by this time. The African team was able to add only 10 runs in 15, 16, 17 overs combined. Arshdeep, who came to bowl the 19th over of the match, bowled brilliantly and made the match completely exciting by giving only 6 runs. To become the champion, India had to defend 16 runs in the last over and Hardik gave only 8 runs and made India the champion.

The wait of 17 years is over

India won the 2007 T20 World Cup, but since then Team India has never won the T20 World Cup. India did reach the final in 2014, but lost there. With this, India has also removed the tag of chokers that was attached to it for the last decade, as this is India's first ICC title after the 2013 T20 World Cup.

South Africa again scored a century

The South African team, which has earned the tag of 'fourkers', scored a four again in this match. The South African team was able to score 169 runs in 20 overs. The highest run scorer for South Africa was Heinrich Klaasen, who played an innings of 52 runs. Apart from him, Quinton de Kock scored 39 runs. For India, Hardik Pandya took three wickets, Bumrah two and Arshdeep took two wickets each.

Such was the Indian innings

Earlier, after winning the toss and batting first, the Indian team scored 176 runs in 20 overs on the basis of Virat Kohli's innings of 76 runs. India lost the wickets of Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Suryakumar Yadav at a score of 34, but after this the pair of Axar Patel and Virat Kohli made a great comeback for Team India. There was a partnership of 72 runs for the fourth wicket between the two. But after this Axar Patel was dismissed after scoring 47 runs. Virat Kohli was the highest run scorer in the match for India, who scored 76 runs in 59 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes. Keshav Maharaj and Enrique Nortje took two wickets each for South Africa. India and South Africa have come out without any change in this match being held at Kensington Oval in Barbados.

Both the teams came out with this playing eleven

India Playing XI : Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah

South Africa Playing XI : Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (captain), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabrez Shamsi.