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England defeated Pakistan in a thrilling T20 World Cup 2022 final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to bag their second W🌳orld T20 title on Sunday.
Six years after heartbreak in Kolkata, Ben Stokes finally has his T20 redemption. He also etched his name in history with unbeaten half-centuꦓries in consecutive World Cup victories for England. Stokes played an undefeated 52 off 49 balls to guide England to a 5-wiꩵcket win.
Chasing the paltry target of 138, England were indeed in a spot of bother after losing four wickets for 84, but Stokes and Moeen Ali (19) forꦿmed a match-winning 48 runs partnership to take the game away from Pakistඣan.
Earlier, England bowled with complete discipline and restricted Pakistan to 137/8 in their allotted 20 overs. Sam Curran, Adil Rashid and Chris Jordan shin🅘ed with the ball💮 and kept the pressure on Pakistan batters.
Curran picked up the maximum three wickets for just 12 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Similarly, Rashid bagged a couple for 22 and Jordan took two scalps for 27. For the Men in Green, Shan Masood with 38 off 28 was the top run-scorer.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🦁
— England Cricket (@englandcricket)
WHAT A WIN! 🎉
England are the new champions! 🤩 | | 📝
— ICC (@ICC)
Well done England! Undoubtedly the best𝕴 team in the tourney👏
— AB de Villiers (@ABdeVilliers17)
And it's yet again! Congratulations on winning the 👏
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
England now becomes the first side in international cricket to simultaneously hold both World titles (50 overs & 20 ovs).
– 50-ovs title at Lord's in 2019
– at the MCG in 2022— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
Matthew Mott as the coach wins both Men's World Cup and Women's World Cup in 2022.
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
T20 WCs often throw up unexpected winners. Not this time🔴. Well done England! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
“This time it’s Buttlerജ’s boys. Champion💦s of the World!” 🏆😍
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
GET IN THERE LADS!!!!! 👏🏼🔥🙌🏼🏆
— Sam Billings (@sambillings)
Inspit🅷e of a low total ! This was a good final !
— Ridhima Pathak (@PathakRidhima)
This has been a graceful Worldℱ Cup victor🌜y for team England. Well played 👏
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
BEN STOKES.🔥
— Chloe-Amanda Bailey (@ChloeAmandaB)
The revolution that brought about is alive and strong. England is the b♎est white ball team in world cricket. To win both World Cups is extraordinary
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
If Ben Stokes was a wrestler, you j𒆙ust think he’d be headlining pretty m🍎uch every year. Speak about a big match performer
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07)
Ben Stokes is born for these situations!! 😍😍😍😍🏴꧑
— Alexandra Hartley (@AlexHartley93)
2016 ➡️ 2022
Redemption for & a trophy for 🏆
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Winners 🏆:
2007 India 🇮🇳
2009 Pakistan 🇵🇰
2010 England 🏴
2012 West Indies 🏝️
2014 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
2016 West Indies 🏝️
2021 Australia 🇦🇺
2022 England 🏴— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)
Unbeaten in an ODI WC final run chase
Unbeaten in 10th-wkt stand in 4th inngs chase
Unbeaten in a T20 WC final run chaseBen Stokes
— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)
Eng since the 2015 World Cup shambles:
T20 World Cup finalists – 2016
Champions Trophy semi finalists – 2017
World Cup champions – 2019
T20 World Cup semi finalists – 2021
T20 World Cup champions – 2022They are the holders of both world c🎃ups. One of the gr💛eat turnarounds
— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek)
ICC Men's T20 World Cup Winners 🏆:
2007 India 🇮🇳
2009 Pakistan 🇵🇰
2010 England 🏴
2012 West Indies 🏝️
2014 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
2016 West Indies 🏝️
2021 Australia 🇦🇺
2022 England 🏴— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)
Congratulations, ! 👏
— England (@England)
Lord’s, Headingley, and now the MCG…
Ben Stokes just loves the clutch moments:
📸 Getty Images
— Nic Savage (@nic_savage1)
Ben Stokes in England's ODI and T20 World Cup Final:
– 84* (98) Vs New Zealand in the ODI World Cup.
– 52* (49) Vs Pakistan in the T20 World Cup.– Stokes proven out to be a key player for England in both the title victories, he's been a champion!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)