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India defeated South Africa by seven runs in a last over thriller, to win the T20 World Cup 2024 title at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Saturday, June 29. This was the second time the Indian cricket team went on to get their hands on the coveted trophy after the 2007 triumph at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, where they got the better of Pakistan by five runs.
In this article, SportsTiger compares India’s T20 World Cup 2024 winning squad with the T20 World Cup 2007 champions.
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2024: Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal
The captain of India, Rohit Sharma, was the top scorer for the team in the T20 World Cup 2024, notching up 257 runs at a strike-rate of 156.70, playing a major role as the opener and the leader in winning the trophy. Virat Kohli had a substandard tournament in the lead-up to the final, but in the big game against South Africa, he held the Indian innings together, to ensure that they got an above par total on the board.
Suryakumar Yadav didn’t have the best of starts to the T20 World Cup 2024, but he got his form at key stage of the tournament, helping India get across the line from a tricky situation against the USA and England in the semifinal. Although Yashasvi Jaiswal didn’t play a match in the tournament, this experience will hold him in good stead in times to come.
2007: Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa
Rohit Sharma didn’t play all the matches in the T20 World Cup 2007, but in his limited appearances, he made a telling impact with the bat in the lower middle order, without getting dismissed in four innings. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag started to peak as an opening pair for India in the tournament, giving India fantastic starts at the top of the order.
The top scorer for the Indian cricket team during the T20 World Cup 2007 was Gautam Gambhir, who got 227 runs at a strike-rate of 129.71. Robin Uthappa also had a steady tournament with the bat, scoring more than a hundred runs, which included a fifty against Pakistan in the opening match.
