ICC T20 World Cup title by beating South Africa by seven runs at Barbados on Saturday.
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Proteas (South Africa) have once again left heartbroken as they are yet to win an ICC title. Meanwhile, India has ended its 11-year long ICC trophy drought, winning their first ICC title since the Champions Trophy in 2013. India is the first team to have captured the title undefeated.
In the run chase of 177 runs, South Africa was off to a poor start as Bumrah cleaned up Reeza Hendricks while Arshdeep got skipper Aiden Markram caught. But Tristan Stubbs and Quinton de Kock countered attacked India, in addition by Heinrich Klaasen.
Hardik came to deliver the final over, getting the big wicket of Miler for which Suryakumar Yadav took a fine catch near the boundary. Finally, Rabada was also dismissed leaving South Africa at just 169/8 and India won this nail-biting match by 7 runs.
As part of ICC's huge cash pool, Both the T20 World Cup winners and runner-up will receive a huge sum as prize money. The winning team will take home $2.45 million, while the runner-up will receive $1.28 million.
Full list of winners and their cash prize:
Virat Kohli’s 76 had led India to a strong 176-7 but after Heinrich Klaasen blasted a superb 52 from 27 balls
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