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17 years long wait is over, India became T20 World Champion for the second time by defeating South Africa

India has won the T20 World Cup title for the second time by defeating South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup. The Indian team had earlier won the World Cup in the year 2007. The hero of India’s victory was Virat Kohli, who played an innings of 76 runs. He has been given the Player of the Match award. The match was very exciting as India won the match on the last ball.

The match was very exciting

Akshar Patel, who came to bowl the 15th over of the South African innings, given 24 runs in the over and at that time Heinrich Klaasen had pushed the Indian team completely on the backfoot because after the completion of 15 overs, South Africa needed 30 runs in 30 balls to win.

After this, Bumrah gave only four runs in his next over. Hardik, who came to bowl the 17th over of the match, took the wicket of Klaasen on the very first ball of the over and gave only 4 runs in this over.

Bumrah, who came to bowl the 18th over of the match, gave only 2 runs in the last over of his spell and during this he also took one wicket. By this time the Indian team had come back in the match completely.

Including 15, 16, 17 overs, the African team was able to add only 10 runs. Arshdeep, who came to bowl the 19th over of the match, bowled brilliantly and made the match completely exciting by giving away just 6 runs. To become the champion, India had to defend 16 runs in the last over and Hardik gave only 8 runs and made India the champion.

17 years of wait is over

India had won the T20 World Cup in 2007, but since then Team India has never been able to win the T20 World Cup. India had reached the final in 2014, but had lost there. Along with this, India has also removed the tag of chokers that has been there for the last decade, because this is India’s first ICC title after the 2013 T20 World Cup.

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