ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Virat Kohli announces T20I retirement after victory
Xtra Time Web Desk: Virat Kohli announced his retirement from T20I cricket after the team won the T20 World Cup 2024. The batter mentioned that the summit clash against South Africa was his last for the team in the shortest format of the game and it's now time for the younger generation to take on.
One of the greatest batters of the generation Virat Kohli won't be featuring anymore for India in the T20Is. It was a fairytale ending for him as the batter as India won the T20 World Cup 2024 by beating South Africa in the final at the Kensington Oval Bridgetown in Barbados.
Virat Kohli, who won the Player of the Match in the final, after the game shocked the fans as he mentioned that it was his last game for India in the T20Is.
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Kohli said in his speech that it was an open secret that he was going to call time on his career after the 2024 edition of the T20 World Cup 2024. Kohli said that he would have announced his retirement regardless of the result. The legendary player said that India captain Rohit Sharma deserved to win an ICC title as the captain of the Indian team.
Virat Kohli scored a superb 7⃣6⃣ in the all-important Final & bagged the Player of the Match award as #TeamIndia won the #T20WorldCup 2024 ???? ????
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 29, 2024
Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/c2CcFqY7Pa#SAvIND | @imVkohli pic.twitter.com/V4kCJbrx4I
"This was my last T20 World Cup, this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel like you can't get a run and this happens, God is great. Just the occasion, now or never kind of situation. This was my last T20 game playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup. Wanted to Yes I have, this was an open secret. Not something that I wasn't going to announce even if we had lost. Time for the next generation to take the T20 game forward. It's been a long wait for us, waiting to win an ICC tournament. You look at someone like Rohit, he's played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth. He deserves it," Kohli said after winning the T20 World Cup 2024.
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— 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
On the day, India clawed their way back into the game in the final 5 overs of the game. India were down and out when Heinrich Klaasen was hitting the spinners left, right and centre in their chase of 177 runs. However, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah combined to pull off a superb back-end effort which helped India win the game by 7 runs.
Kohli calls time on his career as the second-highest run scorer in the T20I format. Kohli is only behind Rohit Sharma in the all time list, with 4188 runs to his name.
