When the chips have been down and it appeared that the title was slipping away from India, Surya pulled off a miraculous catch of David Miller which decisively swung the sport in India’s favour.
Within the interplay with the Staff India gamers, PM Narendra Modi hailed Surya’s catch, explaining the way it turned across the feelings of a billion Indians from a tense to pleasure.
Needing 16 runs from the ultimate over, South Africa had the big-hitting David Miller on strike.
On the primary ball of Hardik Pandya’s last over, Miller hit a large full toss down the bottom however Suryakumar steadied himself on the ropes, caught the ball, launched it simply as he went over the boundary ropes after which got here again in to finish an astonishing catch.
“I’m simply grateful to be in that second to do one thing particular for the nation…god’s plan it was,” Suryakumar had mentioned on the catch that grew to become a standout second from the sport.
PM Modi on Thursday hosted the T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket workforce for breakfast within the nationwide capital.
The Rohit-led squad, that received the title after defeating South Africa by seven runs within the last final week, arrived in Delhi early Thursday morning after being stranded in Bridgetown, Barbados for 5 days resulting from a class four hurricane.
Within the meet, PM was flanked by Rohit and outgoing head coach Rahul Dravid within the group image.
A number of gamers additionally later shared photographs with the PM.
