Bumrah and Kohli Help India Win The T20 World Cup!

India beat South Africa in the T20 World Cup Final! In the battle of the chokers India held their nerve, as Bumrah and Hardik delivered the goods to leave South Africa short of victory.
Seriously though, how did South Africa choke again?
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[@jetpark3743]

I don't think South Africa choked, just India bowled magnificently at the end

[@nsn5564]

BCCI needs to pick up the cardiologist's bill for every Indian, but it was totally worth it. What a game!

[@jetpark3743]

No.... we pick up their bill

[@JayantaBera-yt8ls]

​@@jetpark3743 bro people are nowadays lost brain bcz of social media. They are trusting on some vedio of low resolution which made illution effect. Some people are thinking that his feet touched the cushion from LHS angle who has no idea that it was parallax effect effect btwn the shoe of sky, bottom of cushion and the grass. Clearly some grass comes off which is clear from RHS angle at high quality vedio and that made confusion from LHS angle. The bottom of cushion was vertically aligned and some grass plugged out bcz of friction btwn shoe and the soil and from that low resolution vedio it was looked like something at the bottom of cushion vibrated. It's confusion from that low resolution vedio this merely parallax effect. The bottom (white border of blue cloth) was still centimetres behind when grass comes off.

[@ArpitBhakta]

I wouldn't say South Africa choked but rather India just applied a really tight choke hold in the last 5 overs.

[@nsn5564]

Axar and Dube won us the game on the batting side, and of course, Bumrah produced miracles that let others capitalize on it, which to their credit, they did with immense courage and incredible execution.

[@Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi]

Virat kohli's & Axar Patel's partnership put up enough scores for our pacers to defend. Fairy tale ending for King kholi and Hitman Sharma. 👑🙌

[@nsn5564]

For a ball coming to you out of the sky which would decide the World Cup and legend status for heroes like Virat and Rohit or miserable failure and devastation for a country of 1.4B and innumerable millions of diaspora, Sky's work on that catch belongs on the Mt Everest of the pantheon of achievements.

[@edgefanCWC]

Incredible win! 💙 🏏 👑 Kohli stepped up in the final! Axar and Dube also batted well. And then Bumrah magic + Pandya, Arshdeep, Sky finished amazingly 👏 Unbeaten and now champions 🏆

[@ramav87]

I think Rohit was a bit lucky - he bowled Axar for one over too many when he should have turned to Hardik. Spin was coming on superbly onto the bat on this pitch - in fact, in retrospect, you do wonder if India should have played Siraj. And, as folks have pointed out here, this was probably a 200 run pitch with that Indian lineup. They could have accelerated more in the middle. Anyway, these things are basically irrelevant given India won and that Jaddu, Kohli and Rohit are retiring

[@sabertrat]

The Barbados pitch really wasn't helping the spinners at all. And I'm glad we won on a track like that. The allegations would have been unbearable if Axar and Kuldeep just ran through the the South African batting order. Not referring to you guys but there have been several people complaining about the Semi final pitch already, when India smashed Australia on a flat deck already before that semi final.

[@DMIndia_Official]

19:50 yes it's best score for win 175+ but unfortunately Indian spinners failed in finals otherwise SA can't make more than 130

[@ShivamKumar-mk7hp]

One thing for sure... it was probably jadeja's last T20 game maybe...i mean he literally gave negligible contribution in winning this world cup

[@joylife428]

Bro. Thats the role of kohli.anchor and take the innings . Other players take more chances. No wonder he averages 47.5

[@1987gagz]

How could you say kohli didn’t deserve the man of the match. Guys 3 batsmen went down cheaply and it was kohli who anchored the innings at one end. He played axar and dubey. When kohli is on one end any young batsmen can bat the way they want because they know kohli is there. And have you forgotten the melbourne t20 innings against Pakistan ?? Kohli playing fast or slow doesn’t really matter it’s kohli who is playing which matters. Sad to see this podcast with such short sightedness. And South Africa didn’t choke India held them back with their best bowls ever bowled. Good luck with your lines next time. Losing a follower today 😕😕

[@krishnasf7790]

Not sure whether you guys really understand cricket or act like you do. T20 cricket is not simply trying to whack every ball. You end up playing like england, a bunch of dumb whack attempts without proper knowledge of pitch and conditions. That is not winning cricket. And also bazball has been proven to be a failure everywhere except against inferior competition. Sounds like you english guys feel like you invented the modern t20 game which is very comical.

[@imjustkrishh]

I caught you making a comment on Axar Patel should have thought of retirement after Klassen scored those 24 runs against him....what are your thoughts on Mitch Starc who got a 29 run beating in the hands of Rohit Sharma in super8 match ??

[@mayankdewli1010]

Bumrah saved India from kohlis slow knock again. He scored 76 off 10 overs when other batsmen scored 100 off ten overs. We were 20 runs short but bumrah made up for it. And in the end suryas catch saved pandya from a lifetime of getting abused

[@avishmaharaj5941]

You guys talk like amateurs no class it's better to listen to grade cricketer than you'll so misinformed calling it a choke SA were courageous.

[@enigmaticbloke1129]

There's an another ICC event in 4 minutes. So don't yet stop the podcast.😂

[@chinmayprakash9252]

These were the guys who didn't even kept India in contenders of winning the cup and themselves qualified nrr Anyways congrats India.

[@damau5687]

It's fine bhai, their job is to analyse. Predictions go wrong all the time, it's not an exact science.

[@chinmayprakash9252]

​@@damau5687true thoda jasbaati ho gaya bhai.

[@sabertrat]

are yaar not even most Indians thought India could win this. They're not haters.

[@bhargav38]

It’s atrocious this podcast has less followers !! Get some international players for a interview

[@murthyrm]

Guys u criticise Virat Kohli’s innings and say u does not deserve POTM. You don’t appreciate the situation and conditions in which the 76 runs were scored. T20 does not always mean Bazball and it depends on the conditions. Look at your team England trying to adopt Bazball every where and failing miserably. Wake up and smell the Coffee !!!!!!!!!!

[@TheCricketPodcast]

Bumrah literally went for 4 an over. Hardik got out Klaasen and bowled the final over. Before they started bowling India had a 5% chance of winning.

[@swarnavabanerjee4112]

​@@TheCricketPodcastexactly bumraah won us the match

[@mayankdewli1010]

They are right. Kohli scored 76 off 10 overs and others scored 100 off 10 overs. Kohli didn't deserve the man of the match at all. Instead he was the villain of the match. Bumrah saved us. He won us the world cup singlehandedly

[@prashanth7097]

Very good podcast

[@rosslegg2430]

Thank you!

[@mayursingh9763]

I thik its time for jadeja to retire from t20

[@sushreepadhi]

He retired already

[@RoopTeja1602]

Do you think Axar and Dube would have batted the way they did if there is no Virat on the other end ?

[@statesman01]

Exactly! Nail on the head! Kohli's job was to put Axar and Dube at ease with his steady head on the other end and to encourage them to go for it.

[@mayankdewli1010]

Yes if dubey can score 27 off 16 , it means it was a flat pitch. Kohli played the same knock he played against England 2 years ago and against Australia last year. Thank god bumrah saved us. We were twenty runs short. Guys like Rahul and kohli should never be part of any T20 team.

[@mayankdewli1010]

The whole idea of T20 cricket is to score runs at a high rate. Scoring 50 off 50 is just cheating. Even axar or dubey or Ashwin can get fifty off 50 on a flat pitch

[@RoopTeja1602]

@@mayankdewli1010 yet we are 34 for 3 on flat pitch. Bumrah definitely won the world cup for us but you cannot deny the fact that Kohli helped in setting a decent score else it would have been around 150-160.

[@mayankdewli1010]

Yes but he was slow. The pitch was flat. 3 wkts fell to soft dismissals and there was nothing in the pitch. Had kohli got out pandya jadeja would have scored. Kohli only wasted deliveries​@@RoopTeja1602

[@naveensethi3521]

Axer should be man of match

[@Cafe--Racer]

One can imagine a 5 year old asking why South Africa just couldn't hit a boundary at will , but coming from Jack whose job I assume as a cricket pod-caster is to be knowledgeable about the game appears extremely limited.

[@TheCricketPodcast]

It isn't that they couldn't, it's that they didn't try.

[@mayankdewli1010]

And even a 5 year old knows that you should be able to score 24 off 24. Poor batting

[@qow2427]

Genuine question: why do you dislike Indian cricket so much?

[@rosslegg2430]

We spent the whole podcast praising India, open your ears

[@krishnasf7790]

Nope..You said SA choked. Didnt it come to your mind was it due to India’s bowling in death overs.

[@mayankdewli1010]

​@@krishnasf7790because it's true. Kohli batted slow and sa choked. Bumrah arshdeep and pandya saved us

[@nsn5564]

I think it's good that Virat batted slow, because he just isn't a bang bang guy and like the previous matches, would have gotten out and it would have been 40 for 4. He has his limitations and decided to play more instinctively and traditionally and yes, that put the pressure on the other side to hit, but Axar and Dube did that. I didn't really think he should have been in the T20 team to begin with, but that's India cricket for you - a bunch of old cricketers club, to butcher a phrase. They were never going to be able to drop him.

[@7ChaosBlack]

Sorry but in any sport, teams look to their seniors. You never look to the kids to win you trophies.

[@nikitamohan3390]

He didn't need to go all out in the final by playing crazy risky shots for 6s. He could have continued playing his very safe shots and still scored a few more boundaries or 4s with the ball running on the ground and not lifting his bat.it is absolutely ridiculous and unjustifiable to be playing freaking test cricket in a T20 final for ANY COUNTRY on a decent batting pitch. This wasn't like any of the semi final pitches or those horrid US pitches. I mean look at Klassen 's innings? Instead of batting at strike rate of 128 he could have batted at a strike rate of 140 so that India wouldn't even be in a position where we almost lost the match if not for fantastic bowling from Hardik and Bumrah! The only reason to play test cricket in a T20 match is if the pitch is rubbish amd horriblet for ALL BATTERS but that was not the case in the final!

[@7ChaosBlack]

@@nikitamohan3390 It was 34-3 I agree he should've striked it better but he maybe wanted to stay at the end and trusted the batsman around him to make up for his strike rate.

[@harifederer]

@@nikitamohan3390Firstly batting at 130 or even 100 is not average test pace. Secondly, he did try and up his scoring but wasn’t quite getting it away until later on when he started going at 200.

[@nikitamohan3390]

@@harifederer Like I said, I wasn't expecting him to go crazy and try to bat at 180 to 200 strike rate which he never does. If all batters from both teams are struggling to score runs on a batting pitch, that means that's not a good pitch suitable for batting conditions cuz it's very slow and sluggish right? But that was not true for the final. I mean just take a look at Klassen's innings who scored a 52 at 190 strike rate. Was he struggling to score runs? So there was no excuse for Kohli to bat so ridiculously slowly and not score at least 1 boundary every over and he was batting for 6 to 8 over with not a single boundary and was just putting that unfair pressure on his batting partner which is not true sportsmanship and I know everyone is praising his 76 and 50 plus balls but I personally find Axar and Klassen's batting far more impressive cuz it's fearless and they were batting for the team first and not personal records. And I know if India lost the final when SA just had to score 25 runs off 24 balls, no one including Kohli fans would blame Kohli for the loss. They would be cursing Bumrah and the other bowlers for failing to score crucial wickets under pressure and either way, Kohli would have been let off the hook. I am glad he retired from T20, cuz 1 thing that seems certain, the younger generation like Jaiswal, Abhishek Sharma, Rinku, etc will bat more fearlessly like Klassen for the team than for personal records and one's own glory!

[@AJ-ps]

outstanding win... great celebrations at the end.. Bumrah, Arshdeep, Pandya in last 5 overs were amazing!p.s. highest scoring final ever!

[@AJ-ps]

Arshdeep was great. 17wkts - no1 in the tournament. also was India's top wickettaker in the last t20 WC and the no1 wickettaker in the Asia Cup win

[@mayankdewli1010]

Luckily , now the coaches won't have repeat it 100 times about how we need to play fearlessly. Guys like kohli and rahul never listen and never learn. Gaejwad is also like that. But hopefully we will stick with gill and jaiswal and then rinku and parag.

[@latheeshpnarayanan5630]

SA lost partly because of the same reason why India lost the 2023 wc- the lack of batting depth. In that wc indian batting ended at 7 and until the final nobody was able to get to the number 7 to break open india. Similarly here SA had 6 batters, and jansen at 7. He's a useful batter but jansen is not an international number 7 now at all. Probably a good number 8, india had Axar patel at number 8 as opposed to that. Just like india and odi wc nobody until the final was able to to get to SA number 6 ans 7 to break it open. Also i don't understand why sa keeps batting maharaj instead of rabada in t20s. It makes sense in Odis, but maharaj is a useless batter in t20s, while rabada can atleast swing his arse off.. This was not a choke, this was an expose of a big weakness and great death bowling by Ind.

[@harifederer]

Ross’s comment that if Kohli got out for 50, it would have been a bad innings is such a useless statement and certainly not an arguement against his innings at all. It’s like picking up any great innings ever played and saying ‘Well if they got out for a duck, it would have been bad’. No one is saying he won them the game individually but not did anyone else. It was an overall team effort as it often is. But fact of the matter is he salvaged the team from potentially getting a much lower score after they lost their three most prolific scorers of the tournament in the power play and ensured they put up a par score to give their bowlers something. Saying he should have batted more aggressively is academic since you could literally always make that argument if the other team ends up chasing the target. Perhaps some flak should go to the poor bowling by the Indian spinners and Rohit’s overuse of them?

[@Nikrn81]

It's absolutely BS that a single country gets the final of a 2-3 year cycle tournament every time. Nothing justifies that unless it's a domestic tournament lol

[@vasanthnarain5639]

ross looks so fresh

[@rosslegg2430]

Very kind of you

[@introspect623]

I hope you got your answer, India was not there to sell some cheap shirts but they meant business.

[@chinmayprakash9252]

Why no one's talking about dube's innings He played magnificently and was criticized a lot for his selection

[@jetpark3743]

Well he was lost most of the time tbh

[@DileepB]

Don't forget about SKY!

[@7ChaosBlack]

India were 34-3 when Sky got out. Kohli's innings was justified only because Axar and Dube had strike rates above 150.

[@dilip_insta1697]

Gys who cares kholi mom we need trophy that is it

[@joylife428]

I dont think they choked. They were playing sensibly .looking to negate bumrah but bumrah was too good 😂

[@TheCricketPodcast]

They weren't playing sensible at all. Sensible would have been trying to score the runs.

[@avishmaharaj5941]

How is this a choke guys india bowled fantastic at the death bumrah is a different class even your England couldn't hit him lol you'll got bundled out for 101 shame on you guys.

[@TheCricketPodcast]

They had a 95% chance of winning with 30 balls to go. India bowled very well, as we said, but to blow that kind of an advantage took some serious effort from South Africa too.

[@mayankdewli1010]

They are right. Kohli batted slow but bumrah arshdeep and pandya saved us with help of sa chokers

[@nishant1877]

Battle of chokers😂

[@dnapolren]

Calling Dube 'Doob'

[@TheCricketPodcast]

It's an in joke, about a drum invented by es-England footballer Dion Dublin, also called the dube.

[@dnapolren]

@@TheCricketPodcast 😂

[@chinmayprakash9252]

15:20 True

[@BFR-1]

Great Show

[@mohammedafrar4766]

❤🎉

[@abhishekkadam8299]

Calling SA chokers is not ideal when England is doing it even after inventing the game. With same score England faced 68 runs loss. SA played beautifully.

[@avishmaharaj5941]

Yea they are all frauds English cricket is in a mess and shame on them for wearing Australia nd india jerseys.

[@mayankdewli1010]

Sa are chokers and that's why India won despite kohlis slow rcb style match losing knock

[@sabertrat]

come on mate you know it's true. Even England wouldn't have lost that from that point. Stop showing sympathy to SA. And England haven't been choking at all. They've won two t20 world cups already.

[@sabertrat]

​@@mayankdewli1010 No, stop insulting the great death bowling by Hardik, Arsh and Bumrah.

[@mayankdewli1010]

​@@sabertratI'm not insulting them. It's because of our fast bowlers and sa's choke , we won despite kohlis slow knock. We were 20 runs short. And sa struggling against bumrah is understandable but surely they can't let pandya and arshdeep go for less than 6 an over. That's pathetic batting.

[@devinmoose]

It's amazing how dense some of these analysts are across the board. If Kohli got out cheaply, would Dube and Axar have been able to play the innings they did? Jackasses. India were 34/3 with Rohit, Pant, and Sky gone. What the hell did you want him to do? If he scored less than 50, they would've lost, and had he scored less than 30, they would've been railroaded. Kohli was carried in the tournament. That's nice, who the fu#k has carried the batting across all formats for India for the past 10 years? How many times has he lost when he batted out of his mind and India couldn't defend the total? Btw Miller and Stubbs had strike rates of barely above 100 for the tournament. Klassen had a strike rate of 126 for the tournament.

[@krishnasf7790]

Exactly. They know a bunch of stats and feel they can decide the game using analytics. This is not video game.

[@devinmoose]

@@krishnasf7790 💯

[@mayankdewli1010]

Difference is that kohli was batting first and par score was 200. Rest of the Indian batsmen scored 100 off 10 overs while kohli wasted 10 overs for 76 runs. You can't bat like that. That's what he did against England in Adelaide and against Australia in Ahmedabad. Still didn't learn his lesson. You simply can't bat like that. If a non regular batsman like axar can bat at a decent strike rate on that pitch , no excuse for kohli. His mindset is negative like you guys "what if I get out" ....that's not how you bat in T20s. Bumrah saved us. We were 20 runs short because of kohli. And don't talk about klassens strike rate. He could have thought the same thing. "what if I get out". Klassen batted in horrible pitches and on a decent pitch you saw what he did

[@devinmoose]

@@mayankdewli1010 par score was 200? Really? You are a complete jackarse. At the halfway mark, no one said India's score was par or below par. Did you even follow the tournament? Did you see that teams were defending 140 and 150? How many teams scored over 190 for the tournament? This was the highest score in a T20 final, and it was a low scoring world cup. If par was 200, why were India 34/3 and why were South Africa 107/4 with 9+ runs an over needed? If Rohit didn't keep feeding spin to Klassen, the match would've ended long before South Africa batted their full complement of overs. Learn about cricket before you talk nonsense.

[@sabertrat]

you just look salty tbh, and I'm no Kohli hater. It became clear when the only reply you have for "he was carried throughout the tournament" is that Kohli was carrying India in previous t20 WCs. Like, what's even your point man? We aren't talking about those WCs, it's about the 2024 WC. They never said Kohli is a bad player. Pipe down.

[@nsn5564]

I expect India to lose the next 4 championships, to be honest.

[@7ChaosBlack]

Law of averages says they won't.

[@em_red]

then it's better to put ur expectation inside ur ass...

[@God-is-my-protector]

India will win a lot more now...