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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 t♓ook 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 82 o🔯ff 53 deliv🐽eries to take India home.
Earlier, Arshdeep Singh and Pandua shined w✃ith the ball helping Pakista꧋n 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) were 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 bow♐ 🙌🏽 An innings for the ages. Congratulation🎐s 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 c𝄹ricket ever played on Australian shores. By some marg𓂃in. Incredible.
— Scott Bailey (@ScottBaileyAAP)
What a magnificeꦦnt match. What a magnificent innings. Virat Kohli, take a bow!
— Michael Wagener (@Mykuhl)
Virat Kohli's masterclass takes India over the finish line.
Scorecard:— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Kohli hit 67 from his last 29 balls… stagger🌃ing stuff under pressure from an absolute master
— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09)
Kohli will always be a champion cricketer, one of the best batsman ever to play the game and someone who makes 🐬us proud to be an Indian. 🇮🇳
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
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KING VIRAT KOHLI. 👑
That’s it, that’s the tweet.
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@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 absurd
— Tim Wigmore (@timwig)
Kohli did ꦉit again! Bringing his ow෴n style, agression and play on the field and scoring a half century 🔥💪. A much needed and fantastic innings!
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
What a win. India handling the pressure brilliantly and Virat Kohli playing an innings for the ages. One of the b🔜est that one will ever see anꦚd a great win for Team India. Jai Hind
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad)
Kohli 👑
The 6 down the ground followed by the one over fi🌟ne-leg off Rauf in 2nd last over. Insane.🌳 Iconic
— Andrew McCormack (@_AMcCormack7)
I have seen Virat for so many years. I have never seꦯen a tear in his eyes. I saw i🅺t 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)
V𒉰irat’s knock in Mohali 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!! 🔥🔥
— Robbie Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
