T20 World Cup 2024: Diwali is celebrated at midnight in India. Rohit Sharma’s team fulfilled a dream that was waiting to be fulfilled for 17 years. South Africa easily completed the target of 177 runs. But, this was not acceptable to the bowlers.
T20 World Cup 2024: The victory was taken away from South Africa. T-20 World Cup belongs to India. The hero of the victory is not just one person but the entire Indian team. Suryakumar’s catch will probably be remembered for decades, leading to a return to Miller Pavilion.
T20 World Cup 2024: India chose to bat first at the stadium from Barbados. The wickets of Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and Suryakumar fell in the powerplay. Kohli scored 72 runs and Akshar Patel played an innings of 47 runs. Shivam Dubey scored 27 runs at a brisk pace and took the score to 176. South African spinners Keshav Maharaj and Enrique Nortya took 2 wickets each. Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen took one wicket each.
Best wishes from Prime Minister Narendra Modi
In the run chase, the South African team scored 169 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Hardik Pandya took 3 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh took 2 wickets each. Henrik Klaasen scored 52 runs off 27 balls while de Kock scored 39 runs off 31 balls. Tristan Stubbs contributed 31 runs off 21 balls and Miller contributed 21 runs off 17 balls.
Virat Kohli announced his retirement from T20 international cricket, saying, “This was my last match for Team India in T20. Now is the time for the next generation to take over.”
Hardik Pandya said after the win that we were confident that we can win the match from anywhere. Credit goes to Jassi for the way he bowled. My strategy was to execute the plan. Very happy for Dravid. He is a wonderful person, I have a very good relationship with him.
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