India vs South Africa T20 World Cup Final: India held their line & breath
South Africa did not choke.
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In sport choking is the worst possible feeling. This is when a player or team has victory in grasp and then feels an almost visceral inability to take the final step. Think of a tennis player suddenly banging down double faults when she has been pinging aces all evening. Imagine the striker who has conjured the most magical goals stepping up to take a penalty and not even being on target.
This was where South Africa were at a key point in their first World Cup final, with only 30 needed from as many balls. In Twenty20 cricket, with batting to come, this is a walk in the park. But, India had other ideas.
Among those was Jasprit Bumrah, whose magnificence in returning figures of 4-0-18-2 cannot be understated. And then there was Hardik Pandya, brought into the attack almost as an afterthought by Rohit Sharma, among the most astute captains the game has ever seen. Without being as fierce as Bumrah, Pandya was as un-hittable, and he gave India three overs that yielded 20 runs and three wickets.
Pandya has not had it easy with a change of IPL teams, along with captaincy, not being straightforward. And yet, here he was, redeeming himself, bending his back and earning his keep as a bowling all-rounder. When Keshav Maharaj and Anrich Nortje were left last men standing, nine runs adrift of their target, you had to feel for a nation whose time as
