Anatomy Of India’s Win in T2O WC 2024
SKY jumps in the sky to complete a skier at Kensington Oval, Barbados and Indian Team on Cloud Nine as Indian team breaks the jinx and won a ICC Title eluding since 2011.
Indeed a spectacular catch by Suryakumar Yadav (SKY) ended the hopes of the Proteas’ Team in a hard fought battle in the T20 WC 2024 jointly hosted by West Indies and USA.
The two undefeated teams of the tournament met for the summit title clash at Barbados.
And 30 runs in 30 balls with 5 wickets in hand the Cup was very much within the grasp of the Rainbow Nation players. But alas! They failed to cross the line and handed victory to the never-say-die spirit Of the Indian players.
With the pinch hitter Klaasen going great guns with a half century in double quick time, the S.A. were fancing their dreams of a WC Title. And the India’s all rounder Hardik Pandya had other ideas and bowled a wide off side delivery and only saw him knicking to the ebullient Wicket keeper Pant to grab it gleefully.
And suddenly the Proteas batters were in panic mood and couldn’t force the pace of runs quickly And were struck in the middle. Their only mainstay is the hard hitter , southpaw, David Miller in the middle some hopes were there. Indian trio medium pacers called the shots as they were miserly in giving runs.
The 18th over bowled by Bumrah was outstanding conceding just 2 runs and 1 wicket, the penultimate over by Arshdeep Singh conceding just 4 runs.
Now for the ultimate over with 16 runs to be had, India’s ace card all-rounder Hardik Pandya’s first ball a wide full toss off side allured Miller to have a heave towards long-off boundary only to find SKY who hurtled round from wide long-off, clawed down the ball with barely two hands, toppling over the rope as he crossed , kept his cool and kept his feet inside the rope and lobbed the ball back into his hands to the utter belief of Miller! A sensational catch for the ages. That almost sealed the fate of the Proteas’ hopes. And K. Rabada’s mighty heave again landed in the hands of SKY , a consummate easy catch. And Indian dugout ran to the middle to celebrate victory.
And the barren cupboard of trophies of the Proteas’s team continues!
And that brought curtains to the three legends viz., Head Coach Rahul Dravid, Captain Rohit Sharma and King Kohli.
