After a rough start, India turned the match around, winning in a nail-biter. This was India’s second T20 World Cup win; the team won the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.
India’s men’s cricket team won a nail-biter final game against South Africa in the Twenty20 World Cup match on Saturday, putting an end to the country’s 13-year drought in the global cricket arena.
Both India and South Africa were undefeated going into Saturday’s match in Barbados. South Africa seemed like it had a chance of winning the game, but India thwarted the team’s attempt to exceed India’s 176 runs.
This was India’s second T20 World Cup win; the team won the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007. It was also India’s first World Cup win in 13 years in any type of cricket, after a series of heartbreaking close final matches over the last 12 months.
“Guys understand when the pressure is on what needs to be done,” said Rohit Sharma, India’s team captain. “Today was a perfect example, [we] stuck together with backs to the wall. We wanted this really bad … very proud of the bunch of boys and the management.”
Cricket is the world’s second-most popular sport but many Americans are unfamiliar. T20 is an abbreviated form of the game.
