India has won the T20 World Cup title after 17 years. The Indian team defeated the South African team by 7 runs in the final. At one point, it looked like the South African team would easily chase down the target of 177 runs, but the Indian bowlers snatched away the victory from the hands of South Africa.
After the victory of Team India, celebrations are being held across the country including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal. People are dancing while some are celebrating festival like Diwali by bursting crackers.
India has won the World Cup by defeating South Africa by 7 runs in the T20 World Cup.
India had given a target of 177 runs to South Africa, the South African team could only score 169 runs.
Like the Indian team, the South African team did not have a good batting start.
In the second over of the innings, Reza Hendricks was bowled by Bumrah and Africa suffered an early setback.
Then in the third over itself, Arshdeep Singh dismissed the South African captain Markram and handed it over to the South African camp.
But then de Kock and Strubs took over the innings and put on a 58-run partnership. Strubs scored 31 runs in 21 balls while batting fast.
When de Kock was dismissed for 39, Africa were 106 for four in 12.3 overs.
But next up, Henrik Klaassen batted well and it looked like the match had been taken away from India.
The 15th over of the innings was given by Rohit Sharma to Akshar Patel and Klassen scored 24 runs in that over.
The match was slipping away from India. But on the first ball of the seventeenth over, Hardik Pandya took the wicket of the dangerous batsman Klaasan and gave India hope once again.
Henrik Klaasen played a blistering innings of 52 runs off 27 balls with the help of two fours and five sixes. The match was slipping away from India. But on the first ball of the seventeenth over, Hardik Pandya took the wicket of the dangerous batsman Klaasan and gave India hope once again.
Henrik Klaasen played a blistering innings of 52 runs off 27 balls with the help of two fours and five sixes. In the last two overs, South Africa needed 20 runs to win. David Miller and Keshav Maharaj were at the crease. India gave the 19th over to Arshdeep Singh and he bowled two dot balls. In the 19th over, Arshdeep Singh bowled hard and conceded just four runs.
Now in the last over, South Africa needed 16 runs to win. There was a wave of joy in the Indian camp when Hardik Pandya caught Miller just before the 20th over. Suryakumar Yadav took a strong catch from Miller. Batting first, the Indian team scored 176 runs in 20 overs. Virat Kohli scored the highest 76(59) runs while Akshar Patel scored 47(31) runs. Shivam Dubey scored 27 (16) runs.
