T20 World Cup Final: India vs South Africa
The final of the T20 World Cup will be played between India and South Africa tonight at 8 pm. Team India has been waiting for the trophy of this tournament since 2007, while South Africa has not won a single World Cup to date.
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India’s Journey
India has been a consistent participant in the T20 World Cup since 2007. The team won the title in 2007, was runner-up in 2014, and reached the semi-finals in 2016 and 2022. They have a 57% success rate in knockout matches, winning 4 and losing 3. India failed to advance past the group stage in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2021.
South Africa’s Journey
South Africa also has been part of the tournament since 2007. They have been eliminated from the group stage multiple times and lost in the semi-finals in 2009 and 2014. This year, after 10 years, they won their first knockout match and reached the finals. South Africa has lost 67% of their knockout matches and exited at the group stage in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2021, and 2022.
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Match Statistics
In the history of the T20 World Cup, India has won the most 35 matches. The team’s win percentage is 69% and they have lost only 15 matches. South Africa has also lost only 15 matches in the T20 World Cup, but the team’s win percentage is 67% less than India. They have won 32 matches so far.
Both teams are unbeaten in this T20 World Cup. India has won 7 and South Africa has won 8 matches. One match of India ended in a draw due to rain. No unbeaten team has ever become champion in the history of the T20 World Cup, if any of these two teams wins today, it will break the trend of no unbeaten team becoming champion.
Head-to-Head
Both teams have played 6 matches in the history of the tournament. India won in 2014 and South Africa in 2014. In 2007, India reached the semi-finals by defeating South Africa in a Super-8 stage match at their home ground in Durban.
In 2014, the two teams clashed in the semi-finals in Mirpur. South Africa scored 172 runs, but India won the match by 6 wickets on the back of Virat Kohli’s 72 runs. The last match between the two was played in Perth in 2022, in which South Africa won the match by 5 wickets in the 20th over.
India also dominates in international T20s. 26 matches were played between these two. India won 14 and South Africa won 11. On 1 December 2006, India played against South Africa for the first time, India won by 6 wickets. This was Team India’s first match in T20 history.
The last time a 3-match T20 series was played between the two was in December 2023, which ended in a 1-1 draw. One match of this series was drawn due to rain. In 2010, when both the teams clashed in the West Indies, India won the match by 14 runs thanks to Suresh Raina’s century. This is the only century by an Indian player in the history of the T20 World Cup.
Key Players:
Virat Kohli has scored the most 1216 runs in the T20 World Cup. After him, Rohit Sharma has also scored 1211 runs in this tournament. No South African player could score more than 800 runs. AB de Villiers is the highest run-scorer of the team. In the current team, Quinton de Kock has scored the most 614 runs.
South Africa’s Enrique Nortya is the team’s highest wicket-taker in the history of the tournament with 33 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin has taken the most 32 wickets for India. Arshdeep Singh is currently leading the team with 25 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah has also taken 24 wickets.
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