IND vs SA Match Highlights And Report-T20 WC: This was as perfect a farewell to Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as they would have hoped for from T20Is as they got to get their hands on the elusive trophy, with India becoming the first team ever to win a men’s T20 World Cup title by being unbeaten throughout the competition.
India ended their decade-long ICC trophy drought, having won their previous one in 2013, by defeating South Africa in a last-over thriller in Barbados, which India won by only seven runs.
Kohli top-scored with 76 runs in India’s total of 176. But the match and the trophy were all but in the clutches of South Africa when Klaasen blasted Axar Patel in a 24-run 15th over to bring the equation down to 30 runs requiring in 30 balls.
However, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, and Arshdeep Singh produced five top-drawer overs in the death to seal the match and the title by 7 runs.
IND vs SA Match Highlights And Report-T20 WC
Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first on a good pitch at the Kensington Oval. India were on top for the first eight balls in which Kohli and Rohit creamed five boundaries. However, Keshav Maharaj struck twice in his first over by dismissing Rohit and Rishabh Pant.
Before the powerplay ended, Rabada got rid of Suryakumar Yadav to leave India reeling at 34/3. India promoted Axar Patel to number 5 and he did a superb job with Kohli dropping in the anchor role.
Axar cracked 47 runs off 31 balls with the help of four sixes while Kohli trudged steadily to his half-century in 48 balls. Axar got run out but Kohli launched into attack mode by smashing two fours and two sixes before holing out at long-on. Shivam Dube played a crucial cameo of 27 runs in 16 balls as India ended with 176, perhaps a slightly below-par total.
India started brilliantly with the ball with Bumrah castling Hendricks and Arshdeep getting the outside edge of Markram. However, South Africa rocked back in the game and how.
Quinton de Kock anchored the chase, holding his end, while Tristan Stubbs and Heinrich Klaasen counter-attacked with several hits to and over the fence. Stubbs scored 31 (27) and Klaasen mauled 52 off 27 balls with five sixes as they took down India’s spin trio of Axar, Jadeja and Kuldeep: the trio gave away 106 runs in 9 overs as South Africa sat on top.
The game started to change slowly. First with Bumrah’s four-run 16th over, then when Hardik got the outside edge of Klaasen in another four-run over, and then with Bumrah again in just a two-run 18th over, in which he dismissed Jansen. Arshdeep conceded only four runs in the 19th over, leading 16 for Hardik to defend in the last over.
The threat of Miller was still there and the left-hander threatened to take the final away when he launched a full toss from Pandya on the first ball down the ground but Suryakumar showed great presence of mind to take one of the best catches at long-on under huge pressure. Hardik closed out the game calmly as a country of more than a billion people rejoiced in celebration.
Score summary: India 176/7 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 76, Anrich Nortje 2/26); South Africa 169/8 in 20 overs (Heinrich Klaasen 52, Hardik Pandya 3/20). India defeated South Africa by 7 runs.
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