India has won the T20 World Cup 2024 title for the second time by defeating South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup. The Indian team had won the World Cup earlier in the year 2007. The hero of India’s victory in the final was Virat Kohli, who played an innings of 76 runs. He was given the Player of the Match award. The final match was very exciting and India won the match on the last ball. While, Jasprit Bumrah who led the bowling unit was adjudged the player of the tournament.
Victory from jaws of defeat
Axar Patel, who came to bowl the 15th over of the South African innings, went for 24 runs in the over and Heinrich Klaasen had pushed India completely on the backfoot in the match at one time. 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. By this time the Indian team had made a comeback in the match. The South African team was able to add only 10 runs in 15, 16, 17 overs. Arshdeep, who came to bowl the 19th over of the match, bowled brilliantly and made the match completely exciting by giving only 6 runs. India had to defend 16 runs in the last over to become the champion and Hardik gave only 8 runs.
17 year wait ends
India won the T20 World Cup in the year 2007, but since then Team India has never won the T20 World Cup. India did reach the final in the year 2014, but it 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 Champions trophy.
Match Summary
Earlier, 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 on 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 between the two for the fourth wicket. But after this Axar Patel was out 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. For South Africa, Keshav Maharaj and Anrich Nortje took two wickets each. India and South Africa did not make any changes in their final 11 for the finals.
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.