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Batting supremo Virat Kohli retires from T20 International after India lift the title
Batting supremo Virat Kohli has called time on his T20I career after India edged out South Africa in the thrilling final of the T20I World Cup 2024 on Saturday in Barbados, to win their second T20I World Cup title after 17 years. Snapping a month-long lean run of form, Indian batting superstar Virat Kohli hit his straps at the right time, striking 76 off 59 deliveries to power his side to a formidably challenging total of 176/7.
Defending the total, India limited proteas to 169/8 on the back of a nerveless performance from their fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Arshdeep Singh. Virat Kohli bows out from T20I with a whopping 4,188 runs in 125 games, including 38 half-centuries and a single hundred. In his post-match interview, Virat Kohli stated that it was his last T20I match.
"This was my last T20 World Cup and this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. This is an amazing game, I was telling Rohit today when we went out to bat that one day you feel like you can't get a run, and then you come out and things happen. God is great. I bow my head in gratitude. I'm really grateful was able to get the job done for the team when it mattered the most," Kohli said.
"This is my last T20 game playing for India, my last World Cup I was going to play. I wanted to make the most of it. And this was our aim. We wanted to win an ICC tournament, we wanted to lift the cup. As I said, it was the occasion that helped me put my head down and respect the situation rather than trying to force things out there, and play the game my team wanted me to play."
"Yes, I have. This was an open secret, it was not something that I was not going to announce if we'd lost. This was going to be my last T20 World Cup playing for India, it's time for the next generation to take over. Two-year cycle, there are some amazing players playing in India, they're going to take the team forward in the T20 format, and do wonders as we've seen them do in the IPL. I've no doubts they'll keep the flag waving high, and really take this team further from here now."
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