India (255/5) steamroll New Zealand (159) to lift T20 World Cup 2026 trophy in Ahmedabad

[jnaveen1980]

I can agree on this point- a big reason both England & NZ chose to chase was because they both knew they had weak bowling attacks to defend any total against Indian batting. Only SA had the bowling attack to challenge India.

But then again, SA bowling inexplicably lost their way against NZ openers, how can anybody make sense of that?

SA bowling is one-dimensional. Hardly any spin option. We had Kishan gifting wicket to Markram. ABhishek was in the middle of a horrible bad patch. Samson beign a right hander would have done better. That was a chasable total.

 

[sweep_shot]

SA bowling is one-dimensional. Hardly any spin option. We had Kishan gifting wicket to Markram. ABhishek was in the middle of a horrible bad patch. Samson beign a right hander would have done better. That was a chasable total.

SA's bowling is better than India's.

 

[TheRock]

This WT20 lasted almost a couple of months. Unfortunately, I had to keep changing my Nationality on a daily basis, depending on who the Ind's opponent is on a particular day. A painful experience indeed. Though the WT20 is finally over, I have forgotten about my original Nationality. What a shame

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

Must be since 2007. Was any Mallu there in 83?

There was, Sunil Valson in the squad...but i doubt if he played any game in the whole tournament

 

[chakdeindian]

India is obviously better team than south africa my point is south africa would have challenged them better.. defeat of 70-80 runs cant merely be described on selection issue.. south africa had better bowling plans compared to england and new zealand.

That we cannot say..If you see overall T20 wc records, India has never defeated NZ and many worldcups, NZ had given multiple heartbreaks to India..SA were looking stronger but completely choked to NZ. England were performing poorly against associate nations in the qualifiers, however gave peak performance against India..So, the quantum of a teams performance depends on that day and we cannot justify say SA would have performed better..

 

[uppercut]

@Bhaag Viru Bhaag @jamie smith fan
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and basically those Indians of your ilk who lives in India but will never support India cricketing or otherwise,
Rest assured your country men are thinking of you in your hour of 'big learn' as your country got win.

Long may you continue taking learn and india continue to win and the big positive upshot of getting all this lurn is you have a new entry in your vocab : 'Lurnday' in between Saturday and Monday

mek that .... Burn and lurn

@Mesozoic

 

[uppercut]

But but but Zimbushek saaar...

@BouncerGuy

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Should be Green tears buddy

 

[globetrotter]

SA's bowling is better than India's.

Jali na..... Barot jali

 

[CrIc_Mystique]

Theek hai
Btw i am in srinagar and know which team was supported by 95% people here.

So's my cousin who lives in Anantnag but was in Srinagar for the match and he has said Lal chowk, Srinagar which previously used to see the vile flag of the ISIS had fantastic celebrations and also in the night after the match vs pak 2 weeks ago.

Lastly, j&K won the ranji trophy which means our administration is doing something fantastically right to ensure that a place that was under perma curfew and negativity is now flowering and doing well, has brought in a mahoul conducive to progress and success which leads to happiness. End of the day the civilizational DNA runs through and shines bright, the same as in any part of India how much ever it was suppressed.

The 95% u mentioned is 95% of the people you meet, not necessarily 95% of the population of the state, as the saying goes birds of a feather flock together.

Cheers Champ!

 

[globetrotter]

Jali na..... Barot jali

Bahot

 

[JaDed]

This is gonna be Indias last dominating performance in world cups for some time.
They are going to be on a downfall soon and reach bd/sl level.

Don’t be that hurt buddy, Pakistan domestic cup is starting soon , you have much to cheer, pick your side East vs West.

 

[Ball Blazer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030711246769782936

 

[Ball Blazer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030706284979458348

 

[kron]

Sweepshot needs to do a ayudha pujai

@jnaveen1980
@Vikram1989

We need to do it for him

 

[Hitman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030706284979458348

He himself has a career of 114.74 in T20 cricket.​

 

[harshjoshi87]

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[Ball Blazer]

Loving the Pakistani tears on social media. Look at these guys crying here

“will say 2-3 things about India. First, their policy won. Then their system won. Most importantly, their merit won. It was also that the money would not have been spent in the right place," Akhtar said on Tapmad.

"And the way they are spending money on their systems, on grounds, on policies. Look at their labs, their biomechanical labs. Look at their training centers, their machines. Look at their injection of the money. And in the end, how beautifully they respect their elders. How beautifully they have called their captains. Today they are standing. And today they are celebrating. Today as India, as a unit, they are celebrating," he added

Hasn't Gautam Gambhir proved that he can win the tournament with two players? India were lacking one, and he brought in Sanju Samson. Despite all the odds, he didn't drop one and took a huge risk on the basis of merit, and that's Sanju Samson,“

Today, their merit and policy won. And they have depicted that 'we think in the right way. We give the right chance to the right person. We try to play the right player who can win the tournament for us,'" he added.

 

[Ball Blazer]

Akhtar on India’s win

“India has tried to do something like this: there’s a rich kid in a neighborhood who calls all the poor kids and says, ‘Come, let’s play cricket—but only I am going to win.’ India is doing the same thing with us.”

“Out of eight teams, only four remained. From those four, they call three and say, ‘It’s my bat,’ and then come and declare, ‘I won.’ So try to understand—this has completely destroyed the criteria and fairness of cricket as well.”

 

[Ball Blazer]

There was controversy early in New Zealand’s run chase when Shivam Dube dropped Allen in the first over.

Allen’s miss-hit popped up to Dube at mid-off but the fielder badly misjudged the flight of the ball and dropped the catch.

Former New Zealand strike bowler Simon Doull said on TV commentary the innings break lightshow would have impacted Dube’s ability to judge the catch.

“It’s a catch he’ll be disappointed to drop, but a little point on that: in the half-time interval, the Indian players all came out onto the field to get ready and do some catching,” he said.

“They started to do some catching for maybe about 30 seconds and the lights went off and we had some silly show go on. They couldn’t continue to field. They couldn’t practice their catching,” Doull said.

“It is an ICC men’s World Cup final, and they couldn’t go through their process in between the innings to practice their catching. By the time the lights came back on they were back in the changing room getting ready to come back out onto the field. I saw two catches go up, that was it.

“I’m not making an excuse for him, but they didn’t have the opportunity to get that done in between innings, which you would normally get done.”

Cricket commentator Andrew McKenna also posted on X: “Well said Simon Doull, ridiculous that the players couldn’t do proper fielding drills between innings because the lights were switched off for a laser show

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