The T20 World Cup triumph was a workforce effort however total, seven males stood taller than the remainder.
1. ROHIT SHARMA
He was in woeful batting type in IPL & stripped of MI captaincy. However cometh the hour, cometh the person! As in ODI World Cup, Rohit once more put the workforce earlier than himself.He performed with abandon and move; his strike charge was a staggering 157 and he scored 257 runs, highest within the squad. Extra importantly, as commentators mentioned, he exuded
craft and calm in captaincy executing dressing room plans to perfection. His ebullience on the high might be as missed as his captaincy
Do You Know? His 24 fours and 15 sixes had been the best within the workforce.
2. SURYAKUMAR YADAV
In 1999, South Africa had dropped the World Cup. Due to Yadav, India didn’t. His once-in-a-generation catch within the deep was as memorable as Kapil Dev’s backward dash and seize of Vivian Richards’. ‘SKY’ had the strain of residing as much as his rank as world’s no. 1 T20 batter. His knocks towards USA and England had been important to the workforce’s trigger. And his damaging intervention served India properly towards Australia (31 off 16) and Afghanistan (53 off 28)
Do You Know? He scored 60% of his runs in fours and sixes.
3. HARDIK PANDYA
He rewrote his life story on the World Cup. A foot harm had pressured Pandya to stop 2023 ODI WC halfway. His MI switch and captaincy grew to become an enormous controversy; his IPL type the topic of merciless digs. However the 30-year-old all-rounder underlined why he’s irreplaceable. He scored runs at an electrifying tempo (strike charge: 151)
this WC and combined his tempo to assert 11 wickets whereas breaking partnerships and offering important breakthroughs
Prime Second: His 3/20 included the sport altering wickets of Klaasen and Miller within the closing
4. AXAR PATEL
His aggressive batting and sharp left-arm spin offered India’s most serendipitous moments within the championship. He knifed by England’s high and center order (3/23), helped India regain momentum with the bat (47 off 31, Four sixes) within the closing and towards Pakistan. He arrived as a utility participant, left as a premium all-rounder
Prime Second: His breathtaking catch of Ozcaptain Mitchell Marsh swung the sport India’s means
5. KULDEEP YADAV
The beating within the closing apart, the joyful ‘chinaman’ with curly hair delighted India cricket lovers together with his delicate guile and craft from Tremendous Eight onwards. Was at his finest breaking England’s again within the semis
Prime Second: The supply that bowled England’s Harry Brook across the legs may be watched on a loop
6. JASPRIT BUMRAH
He performed eight video games and was unplayable in every of them. Each batter dealt with him like costly glass, with utmost care, and but all had been bamboozled by his video game-like craft. Bumrah is the world’s finest paceman, and by a mile. No person has his deception, motion, variation, a deadly cocktail that earned him 15 wickets at 8.2 runs apiece for an astonishing financial system charge of 4.2. He was The Man of this WC. His ER is the very best ever in a T20 WC by a bowler to ship no less than 20 overs
Prime Second: Too many. However most notably the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan), Phil Salt (England), Reeza Hendricks and Marco Jansen (SA). All bowled.
7. ARSHDEEP SINGH
The 25-year-old Chandigarh-born claimed the second pacer’s spot exploiting the sharp motion and bounce of USA’s uneven pitches and proved to be an admirable foil to Bumrah. His 17 wickets, which made him the event’s joint-highest wicket-taker with Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqi, can be the joint-highest of any T20 WC.
Prime Second: Dismissals of the damaging Tim David and Mathew Wade (Australia) in a single over.
THEY ALSO SERVED WITH MERIT
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dube additionally had their moments. Pant’s 42 off 31 towards Pakistan on a treacherous pitch was invaluable.
Squad members Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal and Yashasvi Jaiswal didn’t get a recreation.
COACH: RAHUL DRAVID acquired the very best out of his wards, ending his tenure on a excessive notice.
BEST FOR THE LAST
VIRAT KOHLI: Earlier than the ultimate, his scores had been: 1, 4, 0, 24, 37, 0, 9. Stability and focus are his forte. However Kohli, who scored runs by the bagful at IPL 2024, appeared to lose each on the WC. It turned out he had reserved his finest for the ultimate. His 76 off 59 balls towards SA was greater than his whole in 7 earlier innings: 75. India will miss his class and reassuring presence within the recreation’s shortest model
Do You Know? Kohli has 16 MoMs in T20I, a world document. Eight of them at WC, once more highest for anybody.
