India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup Final 2007: September 14 is written in golden letters in the history of cricket. On the same day, the Indian cricket team won the trophy by defeating Pakistan in the first T20 World Cup.
On this day India won 1st t20 world cup: 24 September 2007 This is the day when the final match of the T20 World Cup was played for the first time. In this exciting match played between India and Pakistan in Johannesburg, South Africa, India piled up its arch -rivals Pakistan by five runs and won the first season of the World Cup. In this World Cup, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given the captaincy of the team for the first time and he created history for the team under his captaincy.
India vs Pakistan T20 World Cup 2007 match
24 September 2007 in South Africa Johannesburg India and Pakistan The team came out to play the final match. MS Dhoni won the toss and chose the first batting. Yusuf Pathan came as a opener due to the injury of Virender Sehwag and hit Mohammad Asif on the first ball. However, Yusuf Pathan was dismissed for 15 runs. Apart from him, Robin Uthappa also scored 8 runs and walked towards the pavilion. The team’s batsman Yuvraj Singh also scored 14 and MS Dhoni also scored only 6 runs. But Gautam Gambhir stopped speaking of Pakistani bowlers. He scored 75 runs in 54 balls, due to which India could score 157 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs.
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Pakistan’s team collapsed in front of Indian bowling
On the other hand, when the Pakistan team came to bat, RP Singh and Irfan Pathan from India attacked them and went to Mohammad Hafeez in the first over. After this Kamran Akmal was also dismissed. Pakistan had lost 6 wickets for 77 runs, but Misbah ul Haq started raining sixes and reached the last over.
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Sreesanth gave India a break through
In the T20 World Cup 2007 final, Pakistan needed 13 runs off 6 balls to win in the last over. In such a situation, MS Dhoni bowled Joginder Sharma. The first ball was Wide, causing pressure to the Indian bowler. The second ball dot was, Misbah ul Haq hit a six on the third ball, causing Pakistan to reach close to victory. He needed only 6 runs to win, but in the next ball, Joginder Sharma caught Misbah out of Sreesanth and India won the match by 5 runs. Irfan Pathan got the player of the match and Shahid Afridi got the player of the tournament title. In the history of cricket, it is called the new era of T20 cricket.