T20 World Cup 2024: India defeated defending champion England by 68 runs in the second semi-final match of the T20 World Cup and booked a ticket to the final. Now Team India will face South Africa in the final of the tournament on 29 June. Let us tell you that Team India is still undefeated in this tournament. In this match also, the team has won by continuing its strong game.
Batting first, India scored 171 runs in 20 overs losing 7 wickets. In reply, the English team chasing the target of 172 runs could not do anything special even after a lot of effort and could only score 103 runs. For that Harry Brook played the highest innings of 25 runs but his efforts went in vain. Team India easily won the match. In today’s match, there were 5 such players who were the heroes of Team India’s victory in this match. Who are those heroes, let us tell you.
Axar Patel
Akshar Patel was the main hero of Team India’s victory in this match. He took 3 wickets for just 23 runs in 4 overs of his spell. During England’s batting, on the very first ball of the fourth over, he got Butler caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. After this, Akshar bowled Jonny Bairstow in his second and sixth over of the innings. Bairstow could not even open his account. Then Akshar got Moeen Ali stumped by wicketkeeper Pant in his third and eighth over of the innings. Earlier, Akshar scored 10 runs in 6 balls while batting, during this he also hit one more six. Akshar also got the Man of the Match title for this brilliant performance.
Rohit Sharma
Team India captain Rohit Sharma once again showed his magic with the bat. In this match, Rohit scored 57 runs in 39 balls with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. In this match, Rohit made a big record in his name. By scoring 37 runs against England, he has completed more than 5 thousand runs in all three formats as captain for Team India. With this, Rohit Sharma has entered the special club of Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly.
Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav once again trapped the batsmen in his spin and opened the way for India’s victory. Kuldeep took 3 wickets in four overs. He first took the wicket of Harry Brook, who was playing cautiously at one end amid England’s faltering batting. After Brook, Kuldeep also took the wickets of Sam Curran and Chris Jordan.
Suryakumar Yadav
Before the second semi-final against England, Australia opener Travis Head ended the long reign of Indian batsman Suryakumar Yadav in the T20I batting rankings. But in the semi-final, Suryakumar showed that whether the ranking is in his favor or not, he is the king of this format. In today’s match, he scored 47 runs in 36 balls with the help of four fours and two sixes. He shared a partnership of 73 runs in 50 balls with Rohit. This innings of Surya helped Team India reach a strong total.
Jasprit Bumrah
India’s fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah showed his pace in this match too and took 2 wickets. Bumrah made England’s stormy opener Phil Salt his victim in the powerplay. He bowled a great off cutter in the 5th over of the innings which Salt missed completely and the ball went straight to the leg stump. After this, he clean bowled him on the fourth ball of the 16th over.
India and South Africa will clash for the title in the final
Let us tell you that the Indian team has reached the final of the T20 World Cup after 10 years. This time India is facing South Africa. South Africa has reached the final of a World Cup for the first time. India has reached the final of the T20 World Cup for the third time. India first played the final in the year 2007 and then in 2014. Now the Indian team will play the final of the T20 World Cup for the third time on 29 June.
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