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Team India and Pakistan played a nail-biting thriller at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday in T20 World Cup 2022, where the Men in Blue managed to register the famous win, thanks to tremendous innings by Indian superstar Virat Kohli.
Chasing 160, India were in a spot of bother after losing four wickets for 31 in 6.1 overs before Kohli and Hardik Pandya took the team out of trouble. The duo added 113 runs for the fifth💜 wicket as the contest went down to the wire, where India needed 16 off ♔the final over.
Pandya was dismissed on the very first ball of the over, but Kohli stayed unbeaten at 8♕2 off 53 deliveries to take India home.
Earlier, Arshdeep Singh and Pandua shined with the ball helping Pakistan to restrict at 159/8 in 20 overs. Arshdeep picked up three wickets for 32, while Pandya also bagged a three-🌌wicket haul for 30. Iftikhar Ahmed (51) and Shan Masood (52) we💛re the top run getters for the Men in Green.
India winning off the final ball of a T20I
- vs Australia Sydney 2016
- vs Bangladesh Colombo RPS 2018
- vs West Indies Chennai 2018
- vs Pakistan Melbourne 2022 *
Here is how Twitter reacted:
The KING is back 👑
Take a bow, Virat Kohli 🙌 |
— ICC (@ICC)
Take a bܫow 🙌🏽 An innings for the ages. Congratulations team India 🇮🇳👏🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
. shone bright in the chase and was 's top performer from the second innings of the clash. 🙌 🙌
A summary of his batting performance 🔽
— BCCI (@BCCI)
EAT. SLEEP. 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘. REPEAT. 🔁😎
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
Best game of T20 cricket ever played 🍒on Australian shores. By some margin. Incredible.
— Scott Bailey (@ScottBaileyAAP)
What a magnificent match. What a magnificent innings. Virat♔ Kohli, take a bo♚w!
— Michael Wagener (@Mykuhl)
Virat Kohli's masterclass takes India over the finish line.
Scorecard:— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Kohli 🌼hit 67 from his last 29 balls… staggering stuff under💧 pressure from an absolute master
— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09)
Kohli will always be a champion cricketer, one of the beꦆst batsman ever to play the game and someone who makes us proud to be an Indian. 🇮🇳
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Goodness me, what a game of cricket!!
— Kate Cross (@katecross16)
KING VIRAT KOHLI. 👑
That’s it, that’s the tweet.
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
Crazy game!!!
— Mpumelelo Mbangwa (@mmbangwa)
Take a bow, Virat Kohli – you are a champion.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Oh my gosh. What a game That was wild!!!!
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
Absolute madness at the MCG. The brilliant and the ab𝓰sur𓆉d
— Tim Wigmore (@timwig)
Kohli did it again! Bringing his own style, agression and play on the field and scoringღ a half century 🔥💪. A much needed and fantastic innings!
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
What a win. India handling the pressure brilliantly and Virat Kohli p🐓laying an innings for the ages. One of the best that one will ever see and a great win for Team India. Jai Hind
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad)
Kohli 👑
The 6 down the ground followed by the one over fine-l🌳eg off Rauf in 2nd last over. Insane. Iconic
— Andrew McCormack (@_AMcCormack7)
I hav💛e seen Virat for so many years. I have never seen a tear in his eyes. I saw it today. This was unforgettable
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
. shone bright in the chase and was 's top performer from the second innings of the clash. 🙌 🙌
A summary of his batting performance 🔽
— BCCI (@BCCI)
Virat’s knock in Mo🌸hali in the against Australia was probably one of the finest I have seen and this one was probably a notch higher because of the big ground & India being 31-4. Class is always permanent and an outstanding win for Team India in a thriller
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
In last 10 years in international cricket, Virat Kohli has been dismissed by Pakistan pacers 10 times and only once by a spinner. Kohli's average vs Pakistan spinners is over 400.00!!! Pakistan should have played a 4th pacer (that's not a hindsight).
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad)
WHAT. A. WIN. Take a bow !! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Amazing stuff!! So much composure and control!! Soaked up the pressure to take india through!! What a CHAMPION!!Couldn't have been a better way to bring in Diwali!! 🔥🔥
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
