After 2021, India adopted the strategy of fearless play in T20. On the basis of new players and aggressive bowling acquired from IPL, the team won 2 consecutive World Cups and achieved a win rate of 72%.
Ahmedabad: Team India won the final of the T20 World Cup in a spectacular manner. On the occasion of Rang Panchami and Women’s Day, India’s 140 crore people could not have received a greater gift than this. Surya Brigade defeated New Zealand by 96 runs. The whole country kept celebrating Diwali-Holi throughout the night. Kept bursting crackers, blowing abeer and gulal. Let us tell you, in the final match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday 08 March, while chasing the target of 256 runs of Team India, the visiting team collapsed on 159 runs. Let us know which factors worked in the victory of Team India…
1. Attacking game is the mantra of victory!
The story started from the 2021 T20 World Cup, when Team India was eliminated from the Super-8 itself. This defeat changed the entire style of Indian T20 cricket. First the pair of Rohit-Dravid and then Suryakumar-Gambhir gave a simple mantra to the team – fearless cricket.
Now the team’s focus was on above average strike rate. The batsmen were given free rein to attack from the first ball itself. The idea was clear – if wickets fall, they fall, but as long as you are at the crease, keep scoring runs. Players with similar thinking like Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar, Rinku Singh and Shivam Dubey got a place in the team. The result of this is that today India is number-1 in T20 cricket and scoring 75-80 runs in the power-play (first 6 overs) has become a common thing for the team.
2. IPL: A tremendous factory of talent!
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has a big role in India becoming so dangerous in T20. IPL is working like a factory to produce talent for Team India.
Players like Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, Arshdeep Singh and Tilak Verma are the biggest proof of this. When all of them came to Team India, they were ready to face the pressure of international cricket from the very first day. For this reason when Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, R. When legends like Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja left the team, there was no difficulty in filling their place. Abhishek replaced Rohit, Tilak replaced Kohli, Varun replaced Ashwin and Axar replaced Jadeja easily.
3. Revolution in bowling!
India’s bowling style has also changed in the last 5 years. The team now plays attacking bowling which takes wickets instead of defensive bowling which saves runs. The thinking is that even if some extra runs are scored, wickets should be taken continuously.
When the team has the world’s best bowler like Jasprit Bumrah, other bowlers get freedom to attack freely. They know that Bumrah is there to stop the runs. Therefore, the rest of the bowlers take wickets by luring the batsmen into playing big shots. This strategy has proved to be a superhit for India.
4. No change in captaincy style
Rohit Sharma set this aggressive style of play for the team and won the World Cup in 2024. After his retirement, the captaincy went to Suryakumar Yadav. Surya also made captaincy as easy as water and continued the same style of team play which was there during Rohit’s time.
5. Benefited from strong competition
Today it is very difficult to make a place in Team India. There is fierce competition among many players for each position. Therefore, players are ready to play in any batting order as per the need of the team. This helps the team to win the match in any difficult situation.
2021-2026: When Team India made a flurry of success!
* Winning record: India’s winning percentage in T20 is 72%, which is higher than any other team in the last 5 years.
* Domination in bilateral series: India have not lost any bilateral T20 series since August 2023.
* Twice World Champion: Team India has won two consecutive T20 World Cups. They are the first team to do so.
* Rain of Records: In the last 5 years, India has broken almost all the records of T20 cricket. Making a score of 200+ has become very easy now. Under the captaincy of Suryakumar, India has scored more than 200 runs 16 times in just 51 matches.
Not only this, in the last 2 years India has scored more than 250 5 times. In the 2026 T20 World Cup itself, the team scored 250+ runs twice, which is a big thing.