India Clinches T20 World Cup Title with Thrilling Victory Over South Africa
On 29th June 2024, India created history by having a phenomenal victory over South Africa in the ICC T20 World Cup. It is after 13 years that India won the T20 World Cup. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma finally added the T20 World Cup to their resume and retired from T20 cricket. India gave the target of 176 runs to South Africa, a score which the Indian team successfully defended. This time Kohli also made a half century and Jaspreet Bumrah was the man of the match.
The entire social media flourished with the news with hundreds of reels being viraled there only concerned about the cricket tournament. One reel showing Rohit Sharma eating sand of Barbados pitch got vialed there. Hilariously people started to please Prafull Billore because of his Instagram posts.
It all began innocently when Billore shared a selfie of cricket player Suryakumar Yadav on social media. Unknowingly, this sparked a wave of online jokes calling Billore the infamous “panautiThe ,” or unlucky, following Yadav’s disappointing league performance. Billore accepted this designation and gave the mocking a lighthearted twist by photoshopping himself into pictures of South African cricket players, refusing to run from the spotlight.
A memorable day(T20 World cup 2024)!
In the initial over of T20 world cup 2024 the chase for 176, South Africa was shaken as Bumrah dismissed Reeza Hendricks and Arshdeep removed Aiden Markram in the third over. They lost two wickets in rapid succession. At the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown in Barbados on Saturday, India’s team total of 176/7, including 76 points from Virat Kohli, was the best in the T20 World Cup final against South Africa. Shivam Dube outscored him with 27 runs in the last over.
President, Prime minister and the leader of the opposition congratulated the Indian team for their phenomenal victory in the matches. The prime minister mentioned “Team India ko iss bhavyya Vijay ke liye, sabhi desh vasiyon ke taraf se bahut, bahut badhai.” , Amit Shah tweeted, “Our players put up a stellar performance throughout the T20 World Cup with unmatched team spirit and sportsmanship. The nation swells with pride at their historic achievement.” Congress MP and LoP Rahul Gandhi also tweeted, saying, “Congratulations to Team India on a spectacular World Cup Victory and a phenomenal performance throughout the tournament! Surya, what a brilliant catch! Rohit, this win is a testament to your leader”
Thus, in a nutshell, we can say that it was one of the historical achievements in pocket of Indian team. Everyone waited a really long time for this victory. This is a high time for celebrations. Kudos to Indian team for its victory!
References
Hindustan times, indian express, ICC, Jagran josh, Hindu
