India lifted the T20 World Cup title on Saturday 29 June, ending an 11-year ICC trophy drought. Led by Rohit Sharma, Team India won the trophy by defeating South Africa by 7 runs in the final. Although a mistake by Rohit Sharma put India in trouble and at that point it looked like the trophy had slipped from Team India’s hands, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav then combined to take over and India won the T20 after 17 years. World Cup title. In the final, India gave South Africa a target of 177 runs, against which the African team could score only 169 runs.
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Rohit Sharma’s problem in the final was that even on a pitch that supported the fast bowlers in Barbados, he looked to the spinners to finish the overs. Kuldeep Yadav spent 14 runs in the 14th over. South Africa then needed 54 runs in the last 6 overs. Hardik had three overs, Bumrah had two and Arshdeep had one, but Rohit Sharma went to Axar Patel and his move proved costly for Team India.
In this over of Akshar Patel, Henrik Klaasen bowled hard and scored a total of 24 runs. At one point when South Africa needed 54 off 36, the match was slightly tilted towards India, but after this over when the equation came to 30 on 30, it looked like both the match and the trophy had slipped out of India’s hands. But after this the real game started.
Rohit Sharma quickly realized his mistake. Instead of stopping Bumrah for the last overs, he made him bowl the 16th and 18th overs. Bumrah took the wicket of Marco Jensen by giving 4 and 2 runs respectively in these two overs. Where Hardik Pandya dismissed Klaassen in the 17th over and cost only 4 runs, this proved to be a game-changing over.
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When a team needs 30 runs from 30 balls and has 6 wickets in hand, it is easy for them to register a win, but not for South Africa, the biggest ‘chokers’ of the World Cup.
In the final moments, South Africa once again showed why they are called the greatest chokers team in the world.
While defending Bumrah’s two overs, South Africa gave India a strong chance to make a comeback in the match. In the 19th over, Arshdeep bowled brilliantly and conceded only 4 runs. While Hardik Pandya defended 16 runs in the last over.
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Suryakumar Yadav’s catch of David Miller off the first ball of Hardik Pandya’s 20th over also proved to be the turning point of the match, had Miller got 6 runs on that occasion the match could have gone either way, but Surya’s catch confirmed India’s victory.