After the one-day World Cup last year, India is in the final of the T20 World Cup this time. Only 226 days gap in between. South Africa in front of India in the final. A chance to win the World Cup again after 13 years.
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| After in the semifinals |
India in another World Cup final.Only seven months, or better to say, 225 days interval. India defeated New Zealand in the one -day World Cup on November 7 last year. This time they defeated England in the Twenty20 World Cup. India lost to Australia in the final.South Africa in front of Rohit Sharma on Saturday. After 13 years, India has a chance to win another World Cup. Both the teams who have not lost a single match in the current competition have reached the final.
The bitter memories of a year and a half ago did not repeat themselves. In that match in Adelaide, the English reached the final by crushing Rohit's India by 10 wickets. Eight cricketers from that team were in the first eleven in this match as well. But this time they could not change the result. Jos Buttler, the hero of that match, became the villain that day. Despite winning the toss, the decision to bowl first backfired. Batting earlier, India made 171/7. In response, England stopped at 103 runs. India won by 68 runs.
Before the toss, the picture that was circulating on social media was not promising at all. Almost everywhere, it was raining heavily. In the video posted by Dinesh Karthik on his X handle (formerly Twitter), the outfield is well waterlogged. Sometimes the rain stops. It started raining again around 8 pm. However, since 8.30 the sun appeared, it did not seem like it had rained before. The umpires did not delay. The toss took place five minutes after seeing the pitch at 8.45. The game also started at 9.15.
Before the toss, commentators were saying that no captain would want to win. As the wicket was covered for a long time due to rain, no one knew how the pitch would behave. But surely the team batting first would have had more problems. Rohit Sharma lost the toss and had to bat first. Although Rohit admitted, they wanted to bat first.
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| Toply celebration after out virat kohli |
After hitting two fours in the first two overs, Rohit created a lot of pressure on the English bowlers. Virat Kohli made his attitude clear by hitting Rishi Topley for a six in the third over. But who knew that the fourth ball is going to hit the cross! He completely missed the line of Topley's ball. It is hard to believe that a batsman like Kohli will play this shot with a straight ball like this. How bad form Kohli is going through, it became clear in this shot. After this out, the question may arise again whether he should be played in the opener or not.
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| Rohit Sharma hits 50 |
Rishabh Pant, who dropped to three, played a responsible innings in the current competition. But this day bad form chased him too. Jonny Bairstow was caught at mid-on while playing a cross shot off Sam Curren's third ball. There was no mature mentality in his shot. At number four, Suryakumar Yadav prefers to play slower. In the eighth over, Chris Jordan hit a six in the famous 'lap shot'.
From the seventh over, drizzle started falling. After the end of the eighth over, heavy rains hit Guyana. After raining for about half an hour, the sun came out again so hard that it looked like it had never rained before. After 75 minutes the match started. Rohit was playing well paired with Surya. 50 runs were scored in the pair of two. Rohit also completed his half century. Surya also scored 19 runs by hitting two sixes and a four in an over from Karen.
Decline in the next over. Like Kohli, Rohit left the wicket completely and went to play across. He stumbled in front of Adil Rashid's googly. The ball comes and smashes the middle stump. After some time the sun also returned. Like Rohit, he could not score a half-century. Jafra bowled Archer's slower ball. Chris Jordan caught on the edge of the boundary.
Hardik dropped to the middle and continued to play. Jordan hit a pair of sixes in the 18th over. Jordan bowled the fourth ball at the exact same spot, luring Hardik. Hardik plays the same shot. Caught at long-off by Karen. Shivam Dubey was brought down a little late that day. That decision was right after Hardik got out. It didn't even take two minutes for Shivam to come and go 22 yards from Sajghar. The wicketkeeper punched the first ball into the hands of Butler. India made 171/7 in the last over courtesy of Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel.
England's batting was concerned with their two openers. Both the openers defeated India in the last T20 World Cup. One of them, Jos Buttler, was in the team that day too. He started aggressively. In the third over, Arshdeep Singh hit three fours to show England's attitude. Akshar picked up Buttler-fork on the first ball of the fourth over. Buttler caught Panth while cutting the first ball. Bumrah picked up Salt in the next over. Jonny Bairstow picked up that letter in the sixth over. England lost three wickets in the power play.
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