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Jasprit Bumrah shared adorable moments with his wife Sanjana Ganesan and son Angad after India won the T20 World Cup 2024. Bumrah played a crucial role in India’s 7-run win over Aiden Markram’s South Africa on Saturday at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. Bumrah got the wickets of Reeza Hendricks and Marco Jansen to finish with figures of 4-0-18-2.
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Throughout the tournament, Bumrah has shown how big an asset he is to the Indian team across formats. After the win, the 30-year-old Bumrah was seen draping the winner’s medal around his son. Wearing the national flag, Bumrah carried him around and played with him. He also posed for pictures with his family, showing how happy he was.
India secure epic win
India won their second T20 World Cup title since their first championship in 2007, when MS Dhoni led them to glory. Virat Kohli played a crucial role in India’s success, scoring a resilient 76 off 59 balls to help his team post a challenging target of 177 runs for the Proteas. Kohli’s innings was instrumental in rescuing India from early setbacks, including the loss of captain Rohit Sharma in the second over. Axar Patel also contributed significantly with a 31-ball-47, which included four sixes and one four.
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South Africa seemed in control when they needed 71 runs off 45 balls with 6 wickets in hand. However, India’s bowling attack, led by Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah, turned the tide of the match. Pandya removed Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller, while Bumrah’s in-swinging delivery to bowl out Marco Jansen proved pivotal in India’s victory.
Once Suryakumar Yadav took a stunning catch to dismiss Miller, it was all over bar the shouting for the Proteas. The match was a nail-biter, with South Africa fighting hard but ultimately falling short. India’s strong bowling display and Kohli’s heroic batting performance sealed the win.

With Rahul Dravid’s tenure as India head coach coming to an end after the T20 World Cup, a number of names were floated as potential replacements. The most prominent of these, however, was Dravid’s former teammate and Kolkata Knight Rider mentor Gautam Gambhir. While many reports had suggested that Gambhir’s appointment as head coach was all but confirmed, there had been no official word from the BCCI.However, in a recent interaction with news agency ANI, the BCCI president more or less confirmed that Gambhir has been offered the job of India coach. During the interaction, Binny said it would be good for Indian cricket if Gambhir took the job, given his experience as an all-rounder.
“Gautam Gambhir has got a lot of experience and if he takes the job it’s definitely going to be a good thing for Indian cricket. He is experienced that’s what India needs. India needs a coach who played the game, and he has played in all three formats of the game,” Binny told ANI.
Notably, Gambhir had previously admitted that he would love to coach the Indian cricket team, stating that there is no bigger honour. In an interaction with PTI, Gambhir had said,I would love to coach the Indian team. There is no bigger honour than coaching your national team. You are representing 140 crore Indians and those across the globe as well,”
Earlier, it was reported that Gambhir had laid down five conditions for taking up the role of head coach, including complete autonomy over team selection and support staff, a separate team for Test cricket and the power to sack senior players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja if they don’t perform in the Champions Trophy 2025.
Notably, Gambhir has no coaching experience. However, he has been a mentor for Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).
During his two-year stint with LSG, the Lucknow-based franchise reached the play-off stage both years. Meanwhile, in his role as mentor for KKR this year, he helped the franchise lift the IPL 2024 trophy after a gap of 10 years.
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Suryakumar Yadav was spot on with his decision-making and awareness while pulling off the game-changing catch in the T20 World Cup final against South Africa in Barbados, said India’s fielding coach T Dilip. Needing 16 runs from the final over, the dangerous David Miller hit a wide full toss from Hardik Pandya but Suryakumar steadied himself on the ropes, caught the ball, released it just as he went over the boundary ropes and then came back in to complete an astonishing catch.
“When the moment comes, it’s his decision and awareness of rope, that’s very important, and knowing with confidence that he can throw and come back, it’s a decision making at that time, and he got on to that,” Dilip told PTI Video while speaking about the catch.
Dilip, who had started the innovative practice of awarding medals for best fielding performance at training, said the young and experienced players “gel well” and called it one of the best things of this Indian team.
“I must give credit to the players for taking time out to come for even optional practice despite such a tight schedule. They themselves take responsibility and come for optional practice.
“Second, we all come through a system, like India A, NCA… One great thing about this squad is that there is a combination of experienced players and a combination of youth, and they really gel well together,” Dilip said after the team’s title triumph on Saturday.
Dilip is the best example of someone who has risen through the ranks, coaching in a state cricket academy’s junior age-group programme, serving as an assistant fielding coach in the now defunct IPL side Deccan Chargers while also spending a decade at the National Cricket Academy.
He has put in the hard yards since being appointed to the post and it reflected in the India’s efforts on the field.
He said it is difficult to track the white ball while taking high catches during daytime matches.
“Especially under clear sky, it becomes really difficult, and for that too we say that track the ball so that you get that much anchor point. So, if there is cloud, floodlights, then it becomes easier to track. But, definitely, it’s still not easy to track, especially for players from the sub-continent,” Dilip said.
Since 2012, Dilip has worked at various ZCA (Zonal Cricket Academy) and NCA age-group camps. He has worked with the likes of Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Yashasvi Jaiswal during his NCA days and hence, there is a familiarity with the younger group of cricketers in the national set-up.
As far as the senior players are concerned, his good work didn’t go unnoticed by erstwhile NCA director and outgoing India head coach Rahul Dravid, who ensured that Dilip got regular India A assignments, which would also help him develop training modules for elite cricketers. 
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

New Delhi, When Sanjay Manjrekar schooled the Wankhede crowd to behave after they booed the newly-appointed Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya, all he wanted the public to realise that their boorish behaviour targeting a big stage player, was unfair.
Told crowd to behave because Hardik is big-stage player: Sanjay Manjrekar
Pandya was jeered at every venue after he was handed captaincy by MI, signalling a controversial end to the successful and popular Rohit Sharma’s tenure at the helm.
The whole episode had a deep-level impact on Pandya.
Manjrekar, while conducting the toss at the Wankhede during a home match of MI, did interject but it only led to a meme-fest by the insensitive social media trolls.
Pandya played a major part in India’s second T20 World Cup trophy with 144 runs and 11 wickets, and Manjrekar now stands vindicated.
What a turnaround for Hardik Pandya. In IPL, there were people jeering him and booing him and I told them to behave because this is a big-stage player, Manjrekar told ‘ESPNCricinfo’.
The former India player and noted pundit always knew that Pandya would hold his nerve in pressure situations as he brought his team back in the game with the wicket of the dangerous Heinrich Klaasen and then closed out the game with a mindblowing final over.
We have seen that umpteen times, wickets of Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller and right at the end, Rabada, so he was a champion and no surprise, to see him flourish on the big stage, Manjrekar said.
Manjrekar reminded Indian fans that even in their humiliating defeat against England in Adelaide, back in the 2022 edition, the colourful Baroda man was a face-saver and a calm presence under pressure.
Even in that semifinal against England, he came in and gave India some hope with 60 off 33. So that’s what he is all about.
You felt safe when he came to bowl in the last over, he was not going to lose his nerves, he was going to bowl sensibly, he concluded.
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Suryakumar Yadav produced a game-changing moment in the final over of the T20 World Cup final against South Africa, taking the incredible catch of David Miller on the first ball that tilted the balance in India’s favour. After Miller smashed a wide full-toss from Hardik Pandya over the bowler’s head, Suryakumar raced from long-off to take the catch, then juggled the ball as he realised he would have to step outside of the playing area.
India’s Suryakumar Yadav takes the catch of South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada in the ICC Mens T20 World Cup 2024 final(T20 WC Instagram)
His timing was pitch-perfect, as he released the ball in time, then returned to the playing area to grab hold of the ball and help India clinch an important wicket. The moment proved decisive as South Africa lost the match by 7 runs, with India lifting the title for the second time in tournament’s history.
Ian Smith, the veteran New Zealand former cricketer-turned-broadcaster, was on-air for the moment and provided a memorable piece of commentary for the magnificent catch from Suryakumar. “Unbelievable. Athleticism at its very very best,” Smith called it on-air.
Dinesh Karthik, who was also on broadcasting duties during the final, later posted on his official X account as he reacted to the catch. Karthik commended Smith’s brilliance on the mic, while lauding Suryakumar Yadav, too.
Ian Smith!, If ever you have a big occasion Call him. No ones ever done it better. The best to call a big moment. Just the emotion in his voice gives you goosebumps And wasnt that the greatest ever catch in a final !!!!, wrote Karthik.
Yuvraj, Sehwag react
While Yuvraj Singh also lauded the India star, Sehwag called the moment unbelievable.
Two unbelievable things that happened in Barbados. Still cant get over that catch from Surya and so happy for Rahul Dravid to lay his hands on an ICC trophy as coach, wrote Sehwag.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah also awarded Suryakumar Yadav the fielder of the match medal. The fielding coach, who started the practice of awarding the Best Fielder as an extra motivation during last year’s ODI World Cup, hailed the Indian team, saying it fielded like a pack of wolves.
“We talk of rising to the occasion in big games… We just didn’t rise but we conquered today,” the Indian fielding coach said.
“The intensity, the camaraderie, the resilience what we have shown today and also throughout the tournament were nothing sort of extraordinary stuff.
“We fielded like a pack of wolves, as Rahul bhai and Rohit keep saying… Everybody knew their roles but together we hunted every opportunity which came our way leaving no stone unturned,” Dilip added.

The 11-year-old ICC title drought finally came to an end on Saturday when Team India lifted the T20 World Cup 2024 trophy in Barbados. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team remained invincible in the entire tournament and defeated South Africa in the summit clash by seven runs. This trophy also healed the wounds of Team India and it’s fans, who were dealing with the bruises of ODI World Cup 2023 final defeat. Celebrations are going on in the entire nation, ever-since Team India clinched the coveted trophy.
The Indian players were visibly overjoyed as their immense hard work finally paid-off. After the victory, the likes of Virat Kohli, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel, along with travelling reserves Rinku Singh and Khaleel Ahmed, were seen joyously dancing on the famous song, “Tunak Tunak Tun.”
Virat Kohli, Arshdeep Singh and Rinku Singh dancing. pic.twitter.com/mhThl8IC7o
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The video went viral on social media like a fire in a forest as the fans got excited after seeing their star players dancing their hearts out.
On one hand, the entire country celebrated the historic moment of becoming the world champions, while on on the other hand, the fans were also left heartbroken with the news of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s retirement from the T20Is.
“One day you feel like you can’t get a run and this happens, God is great. (It is) just the occasion, now or never kind of situation. This was my last T20 game playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup,” Kohli said after the victory.
Later during the post-match press conference, Rohit said, “This was my last game as well. No better time to say goodbye. I wanted this (trophy) badly. It’s very hard to put in words.”
“This what I wanted and it happened. I was very desperate for this in my life. Happy that we crossed the line this time,” he added.