{"id":21081,"date":"2024-07-02T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21081"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:22:27","slug":"india-clinches-t20-world-cup-2024-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/india-clinches-t20-world-cup-2024-title\/","title":{"rendered":"India Clinches T20 World Cup 2024 Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>India secured the T20 World Cup 2024 championship with a thrilling 7-run victory over South Africa at Kensington Oval in Barbados today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batting first after winning the toss, India faced early setbacks during the power play with Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and Suryakumar Yadav all departing cheaply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Virat Kohli, under pressure due to recent low scores, rose to the occasion with a crucial 76 off 59 deliveries, including six boundaries and two sixes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His innings anchored India to a competitive total of 176 for 7 in their allotted 20 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Axar Patel contributed 47 runs, supported by Shivam Dube&#8217;s 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s bowling effort was led by Keshav Maharaj (2 for 23) and Anrich Nortje (2 for 26), who kept India in check despite Kohli&#8217;s heroics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, South Africa appeared poised for victory early on, with Quintin De Kock&#8217;s 39 and contributions from Tristan Stubbs (31) and Heinrich Klaasen (52). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, India&#8217;s bowlers struck back in the latter stages, with Hardik Pandya&#8217;s 3 for 20 and crucial contributions from Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah, restricting South Africa to 169 for 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match turned in India&#8217;s favor in the final overs, clinching their victory and the T20 World Cup title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India secured the T20 World Cup 2024 championship with a thrilling 7-run victory over South Africa at Kensington Oval in Barbados today. Batting first after winning the toss, India faced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21082,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions\/21082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}