Mumbai: Team India created history 15 years ago today. Under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, they defeated arch-rivals Pakistan (ICC World T20 Final 2007) in a thrilling match and made their name in the World Cup 2022. Team India won this match by just 5 runs. Cricket fans still remember the last and decisive over of rookie Joginder Sharma and the catch of S Sreesanth in the back. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the World Cup victory, Indian supporters have brought this memory to the fore. (On this day India vs Pakistan 2007 final Team India beat Pakistan by 5 runs and won T20 World Cup 15 years ago)
Ongoing match review
Team India challenges Pakistan by 158 runs Team India’s bowlers started pushing Pakistan’s batsmen from the very beginning. The challenge of 158 runs in T20 was not difficult.
Barring Pakistan’s Imran Nazir and Younis Khan, both did their duty by scoring 33 and 24 runs respectively. The trio of Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi were piled up by the Indian bowlers.
In the end, Yasir Arafat and Sohail Tanveer both contributed 15-12 runs and came back. On one hand, Pakistan’s batsmen were retreating one after the other. But on the other hand Misbah-ul-Haq was fighting nearby.
World cup final match, India-Pakistan match was already double pressure on the players. Both teams wanted to win, but there was only going to be one world champion. The match reached a colorful situation in the last over.
Now bowling the last over in a World Cup final match means pressure and only pressure. RP Singh, Sreesanth and Irfan Pathan bowled 4 overs each. So now Harbhajan had 1 over left in his quota.
But Dhoni did something wrong. The last over was given to Joginder Sharma. Cricket fans were a bit confused after seeing the over given to Joginder Sharma. But Dhoni started his insistence from here.
Dhoni gave the last over to Joginder with full confidence. Pakistan needed only 13 runs to become the world champion while Team India needed only 1 wicket. Misbah and Mohammad Asif were in the fray.
Such was the thrill of the last over
Joginder bowled the first ball wide. Joginder bowled the next dot ball. But on the second ball, Misbah hit a deep six. Now Pakistani fans were confident that they would win. But no one would have thought that Pakistan would lose this match.
Now Pakistan needed only 6 runs in 4 balls. Misbah was imprisoned. So for him it was only a one shot game. But what happened after that was recorded in history.
#this day in 2007
led by @M S Dhoni, #teamindia Created history by winning the ICC World T20 trophy. pic.twitter.com/Iww2KUvrHa
—BCCI (@BCCI) September 24, 2022
Misbah sweeps the paddle off the third ball. Dhoni hits a shot at fine leg to Sreesanth instead of a boundary. Sreesanth took a catch off Misbah’s ball. With this, Team India won the World Cup by 5 runs. With this, Team India became the World Champion.
Will Rohit Sharma create history?
Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik were the members of this World Cup winning team. Now there are few days left in the World Cup 2022. Team India will be captained by Rohit Sharma in this World Cup. Dinesh Karthik is also a part of the team. Therefore, there is a discussion on this occasion whether Team India will do the work done under the leadership of Rohit Sharma 15 years ago.
