The Indian team has won the T20 World Cup title after 17 years. Team India defeated South Africa by 7 wickets in the final. After this historic victory, Virat Kohli has made a big announcement. Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from the T20I format. He will continue to play in Tests and ODIs, but this is his last match in T20I cricket.
Virat Kohli said after winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title that this was my last T20 World Cup, this is what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel like you can’t run and it happens, God is great. It was a now or never kind of opportunity. This was my last T20 match playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup. Now time to take the T20 game forward for the next generation. It has been a long wait for us waiting to win an ICC tournament. You look at a player like Rohit, he has played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth World Cup. He deserves this victory. It is an amazing day and I am grateful.
Virat Kohli played a big role in winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title. Virat Kohli scored 76 runs off 59 balls in the final. In this innings, 6 fours and 2 sixes came off his bat. He was also adjudged the Man of the Match for this brilliant innings. Let us tell you, Virat Kohli’s bat was silent in this tournament. But he returned to form at the right time and made Team India the champion.
💬💬 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝟮𝟬 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗽: Virat Kohli
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 29, 2024
King Kohli bids adieu to the T20I format in style and mutual admiration for Captain Rohit Sharma 👏 🫡
Take A Bow on that glorious T20I career! 🙌#T20WorldCup | #TeamIndia | #SAvIND | @imVkohli pic.twitter.com/xqur8qmHDF
Virat Kohli played a total of 125 matches in his T20I career. During this, Virat scored 4188 runs at an average of 48.69. Virat faced 3056 balls in his T20I career, which is the second highest number of balls played by any batsman in T20I. Virat scored a total of 38 half-centuries and 1 century in his T20I career. This century came against Afghanistan in the 2022 Asia Cup.
Before retirement, Kohli made another big record and left Suryakumar behind
Along with becoming the new champion of the T20 World Cup, Indian team’s star player and former captain Virat Kohli created another new record. Today is the biggest and historic day for Virat Kohli in his cricket career. Virat Kohli had won the World Cup before this as well, but it was the ODI World Cup. Kohli played the T20 World Cup for the first time in the year 2012.
After this, Team India reached the final of the T20 World Cup in 2014, but there it had to face defeat from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli has made another new record by becoming the Player of the Match in the final. The special and interesting thing is that he has left his own teammate Suryakumar Yadav behind.
Dear @imVkohli,
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 30, 2024
Glad to have spoken to you. Like the innings in the Finals, you have anchored Indian batting splendidly. You’ve shone in all forms of the game. T20 Cricket will miss you but I am confident you’ll continue to motivate the new generation of players. pic.twitter.com/rw8fKvgTbA
After becoming the new world champion of T20 cricket, tears were clearly seen in Virat Kohli’s eyes. As soon as Hardik Pandya bowled the last ball of the match, there was a festive atmosphere in the entire Indian team including Kohli and Rohit. The entire stadium echoed with cheers. After this match, Kohli clearly announced that this is his last T20 match.
That is, now he will not be seen playing T20 International. The special thing this time was that Kohli’s bat did not perform in the way he is known and recognized for in any match before the final. But the way the biggest player played an innings in the final in the biggest match will be remembered for many years to come.
For Kohli’s brilliant innings, he was also given the Player of the Match award. Virat Kohli now has a total of 16 Player of the Match in T20 International cricket. He has played 125 T20 International matches so far during his career and out of that he has become Player of the Match 16 times. Earlier, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav were at par in this matter. Both had won this award 15 times. Suryakumar Yadav won this title 15 times by playing only 68 T20 International matches.
At the same time, Rohit Sharma has won this award 14 times by playing 159 T20 International matches. Now Kohli has taken the lead. On one hand, Kohli’s T20 International career has ended with him becoming the world champion, while Suryakumar Yadav still has a lot of time and he can leave Kohli behind again. The special thing is that Kohli has ended his T20 International career at a high level, which every player desires.
