{"id":3706,"date":"2024-07-07T20:57:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2024-07-07T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:27:28","slug":"icc-t20-mens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"ICC T20 Men&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etching its name in history, India defeated South Africa in a nail-biting match held at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. This win marked Team India\u2019s second ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup title, ending their 11-year-long wait. Chasing 177, South Africa, despite being in a dominant position at one stage, lost the match. It is worth noting that India was dominant throughout the competition, storming into the final unbeaten with wins over the likes of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Australia, among others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>The T20 World Cup,<b>\u00a0first played in 2007<\/b>, is an international cricket championship, usually held once\u00a0<b>every two years.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>While the T20 World Cup began as a 12-team competition in 2007, it was\u00a0<b>expanded to 16 teams<\/b>\u00a0from the 2014 edition.\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<b>2024 edition had 20 sides\u00a0<\/b>competing in four groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>India\u2019s Journey Over the Years:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>India won the<b>\u00a0first men\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup<\/b>\u00a0in South Africa, defeating Pakistan in the final led by MS Dhoni.<\/li>\n<li>India<b>\u00a0finished runners-up in 2014<\/b>, losing to Sri Lanka in the final.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Winners:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Teams to win two T20 WCs\n<ul>\n<li>India (2007 &amp; 2024)<\/li>\n<li>West Indies (2012 &amp; 2016)<\/li>\n<li>England (2010 &amp; 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With the 2022 victory,\u00a0<b>England\u00a0<\/b>became the<b>\u00a0first team\u00a0<\/b>to simultaneously hold both men\u2019s World Cups &#8211;\u00a0<b>the 2019 ODI World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Individual Feats of 2024 Cup:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s\u00a0<b>Virat Kohli<\/b>\u00a0is the<b>\u00a0leading run-getter<\/b>\u00a0in the T20 World Cup history with 1292 runs in 35 matches, since his debut in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>Bangladesh all-rounder\u00a0<b>Shakib Al Hasan<\/b>\u00a0is the\u00a0<b>top wicket-taker<\/b>\u00a0in the T20 World Cup, recording 50 scalps in 43 matches between 2007 and 2024.<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Key Highlights of the 2024 T20 Final:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Player of the Match:\u00a0<\/b>Virat Kohli<\/li>\n<li><b>Player of the Tournament:\u00a0<\/b>Jasprit Bumrah<\/li>\n<li><b>Most wickets in a T20 WC Edition:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>17 &#8211; Arshdeep Singh (IND, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>17 &#8211; Fazalhaq Farooqi (AFG, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Lowest Economy Rate in a T20 WC Edition:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>4.17 &#8211; Jasprit Bumrah (2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Only the 3rd\u00a0time a team won the T20 WC final while\u00a0<b>defending the target<\/b>\u00a0after India in 2007 and West Indies in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>India became the<b>\u00a0first team\u00a0<\/b>to win a T20 World Cup by being\u00a0<b>unbeaten through\u00a0<\/b>the\u00a0<b>tournament.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Post World Cup win, three Indian players namely,<b>\u00a0Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Ravindra Jadeja\u00a0<\/b>have announced their retirement from T20 internationals.\n<ul>\n<li><b>BCCI<\/b>, the cricket governing body of India has\u00a0<b>announced Rs 125 crore prize money\u00a0<\/b>for Team India after the T20 World Cup win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drishtiias.com\/images\/uploads\/1720011060_image6.png\" width=\"770\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etching its name in history, India defeated South Africa in a nail-biting match held at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. This win marked Team India\u2019s second ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup title, ending their 11-year-long wait. Chasing 177, South Africa, despite being in a dominant position at one stage, lost the match. It is worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,44],"tags":[35,37,51,36,34],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mppsc","category-t20-world-cup","category-upsc","tag-jabalpur","tag-mppsc","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-upsc","tag-vivechana-ias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vivechanaias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}