India became champion by winning thrilling final

Winning the toss and opting to bat, the Indian cricket team lost three early wickets and Virat Kohli again resorted to his old role of scoring runs. Indian veteran Virat Kohli scored 76 runs in 59 balls, which included six fours and two sixes and Virat Kohli did not hit a boundary in the entire innings between 7-15 overs, while Axar Patel (47) and Shivam Dubey (27) played supporting knocks to take India to a total of 176/6.

South Africa cricket team also lost two early wickets, but Tristan Stubbs and alert Quinton de Kock counter-attacked and brought the Proteas back on track. Then Heinrich Klaasen almost got the target by scoring 52 runs in 27 balls, tormenting the spinners to reduce the final target to 30 runs from 30 balls. But Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya tightened the screws on South Africa in the last five overs and won by seven runs to win their first ICC title since 2013.

Klaasen had launched a fierce attack on India’s premier spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel in the middle overs. Klaasen’s innings included five sixes and two fours, which helped South Africa score more than 100 runs in the middle overs, much more than what India managed to score. But Bumrah’s last two overs yielded six runs and both Arshdeep and Pandya also did their part hard and hit a four each in the death overs. Together they took seven wickets, including all three strikes of Pandya, with Klaasen’s big strike coming in the death overs, which eventually sent a wave of disappointment in the South African camp.