India vs South Africa Highlights – Hardik, Bumrah, Arshdeep and Kohli win the World Cup for India
T20 World Cup 2024 Final Live Updates: India won the ICC title after 11 years by defeating South Africa by 7 runs in the final match of the T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday at Barbados’ Kensington Oval.
Virat Kohli announced his retirement from T20Is after the match. India’s dream of ending the ICC title drought looked to be over when South Africa needed 30 runs per ball to win and with set batsmen Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller at the crease.
The Rohit Sharma-led side needed magic to win and they actually did the magic! Jasprit Bumrah bowled a four-run over before Hardik Pandya dismissed Klaasen, which was another four-run over for India. In the 18th over, Burma gave away only two runs and dismissed Marco Jansen. Arshdeep Singh then bowled a four-run penalty over. Hardik Pandya was tasked with bowling the final over and he took Miller’s wicket off the very first ball, thanks to a brilliant catch at long-off by Suryakumar Yadav. India kept their nerves and eventually won the match by a margin of seven runs.
Earlier, Virat Kohli started the Indian innings with a 59-ball 76 and the team scored 176 for 7 – the highest score by any team in a men’s T20 World Cup final. India were bowled out for 34 for 3 in 4.3 overs, but a crucial 72-run partnership between Kohli and Axar Patel helped the team recover from the crunch. Axar was dismissed for 47 off 31 balls, while Kohli scored 76 off 59 balls. Rohit Sharma fell to the ground. Rahul Dravid jumped out of his chair. They are world beaters. Finally. Hardik Pandya has tears in his eyes. They were public enemy number one in India.
