ADVERTISEMENTIndia had just become the first team to retain a T20 World Cup, or win the tournament on home soil, or win it a third time. Similarly planned festivities had gone wrong during the 50-over World Cup final two-and-a-half years ago when Pat Cummins’s Australia revelled in “hearing a big crowd go silent”. “I was in the 2024 World Cup team where I didn’t play. I knew the wicket was a flat one, so had to use all my experience.”Bumrah is the highest wicket-taker in this edition of the World Cup alongside spinner Varun Chakravarthy, with 14 each. It was redemption time for Rohit Sharma, who had lost the ODI World Cup final on this very ground in November 2023, a defeat that still rankles.

Source: The Telegraph March 09, 2026 00:50 UTC