Six Indians named in ICC T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament
Rohit Sharma is captain of the team
Six players have been named in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 Team of the Tournament after Rohit Sharma and Co. won against South Africa in Barbados on Saturday, lifting the title after 17 years.
The side's captain is Rohit while Player of the Tournament Jasprit Bumrah, all-rounder Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Axar Patel are the other five Indian players of the team.
Meanwhile, three Afghanistan players - Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rashid Khan, and Fazalhaq Farooqi are part of the team.
West Indies' Nicholas Pooran and Australia's Marcus Stoinis complete the XI while South Africa's pacer Anrich Nortje is 12th man.
T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament
Rohit Sharma (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Nicholas Pooran, Suryakumar Yadav, Marcus Stoinis, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Rashid Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Anrich Nortje (12th man)
It must be noted Rohit has announced retirement from T20Is along with veteran batter Virat Kohli after historic win.
South Africa, chasing the 177 target in the final, fell seven runs short of the target. The only players to put up a front against the Indian bowling attack were Quinton de Kock and Heinrich Klaasen who scored 39 off 31 and 52 off 27 respectively.
Rohit had won the toss and elected to bat first. The decision, at first, did not seem right as Rohit, Rishabh Pant and Suryakumar Yadav fell early on in the innings.
However, Kohli who couldn't perform in the entire T20 World Cup 2024, blasted an innings of 76 runs off 59 balls, helping India to reach a total of 176 at the loss of seven wickets.
Accepting the Player of the Match award, Kohli also confirmed that this was his last T20 World Cup and T20I match while representing India and he will now hang up his boots.
Kohli’s glorious T20I career began in 2010 and the veteran batter went on to represent India in 125 T20Is scoring 4,188 runs averaging 48.69.
For India, this is their second T20 World Cup title win. The country won their first T20 World Cup title in 2007 (the inaugural edition of the tournament) defeating Pakistan in the final.
This T20 World Cup 2024 also ends India’s drought of trophies as they last won an ICC trophy back in 2013 when they won the Champions Trophy under the leadership of MS Dhoni.
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