Virat Kohli: The final match was played between South Africa and India (SA vs IND) in the T20 World Cup 2024 hosted by West Indies and America. In which India won the final match by defeating South Africa by 7 runs and the team became the T20 World Cup champion after 17 years.
Veteran batsman Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings for India. Due to which he was given the Man of the Match award. The final match was very exciting and Team India won the match in the last over.
Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings
Virat Kohli was in very poor form in the T20 World Cup 2024. But in the final match, Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings and scored 76 runs.
Kohli hit 6 fours and 2 sixes in 59 balls. Due to which Team India was successful in scoring 176 runs in the final match in 20 overs. Apart from Kohli, Axar Patel scored 47 runs. While the fast bowlers of Team India bowled brilliantly and made Team India win the match.Kohli took retirement
Indian team's legendary batsman Virat Kohli has been playing for Team India for the last 15 years. But now after the final match of T20 World Cup 2024, he has announced his retirement from the T20 format. While retiring, Kohli said that,
“This was my last T20 World Cup. This is what we wanted to achieve.
One day you feel like you can’t run and it happens. God is great. Just an opportunity now or never kind of situation. This was my last T20 match playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup. I wanted to. Yes, I did. It was an open secret. Nothing that I was not going to announce. Even if we lost.”Young players should get a chance – Kohli
Virat Kohli became the Man of the Match in the final match and he further said, "Time for the next generation to take the T20 game forward. It has been a long wait for us waiting to win an ICC tournament. You look at a player like Rohit.
He has played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth World Cup. He deserves it. It has been difficult to stop things (emotions) and I think it will end later. It is an amazing day and I am grateful."
