{"id":40275,"date":"2024-07-01T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40275"},"modified":"2024-07-01T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:47:54","slug":"world-cup-glory-a-vindication-for-india-cricket-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40275","title":{"rendered":"World Cup glory a vindication for India cricket legends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Indians are continuing to celebrate their cricket team’s triumph at the T20 World Cup, which is being seen as a fitting tribute to some of the game’s top players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India defeated South Africa by seven runs<\/a> in Barbados on Saturday to bring home a World Cup after a 13-year-long wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fans celebrated on the streets after the game and have been posting heartfelt tributes to the team on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they say the victory is bitter-sweet, with three of India’s top cricketers – Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja –\u00a0announcing their retirement<\/a>\u00a0from the format after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many X users called Kohli’s and Sharma’s retirement “the end of an era” while others said they had achieved the status of legends in the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar joined in praising the two players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Your unwavering commitment and exceptional talent have brought immense pride to the nation,” he wrote about Sharma on X. Of Kohli, he said, “You may have had a rough time earlier in the tournament, but last night you proved why you\u2019re truly one of the greats of the gentleman’s game”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday’s win was a moment of redemption for Sharma, after his team lost the 50-over World Cup final eight months ago to Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After winning 10 matches in a row, the team suffered a shocking defeat in the final. Rohit led from the front throughout the tournament<\/a> but couldn’t take his team over the line in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is why the T20 cup is so special for him. It matters even more because this was most likely his last shot<\/a> at winning a World Cup as a captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will be 40 by the time the next tournament is held, and most players retire before reaching that age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gravity of the moment and the significance of the victory were evident on Sharma’s face, as he stepped away for a moment of quiet reflection before joining the team in their wild celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day later, he shared an emotional post on X where he posted a photo of himself sprawled out on the ground with his teammates surrounding him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This picture epitomises how I\u2019m feeling right now. So many words but can\u2019t find the right ones to express what yesterday meant to me but I will, and I will share them, but right now I\u2019m basking in a dream come true for a billion of us,” he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: Indians are continuing to celebrate their cricket team’s triumph at the T20 World Cup, which is being seen as a fitting tribute to some of the game’s top players. India defeated South Africa by seven runs in Barbados on Saturday to bring home a World Cup after a 13-year-long wait. Fans celebrated on the streets after the game and have been posting heartfelt tributes to the team on social media. But they say the victory is bitter-sweet, with three of India’s top cricketers – Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja –\u00a0announcing their retirement\u00a0from the format after the game. Many X… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40277,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40275\/revisions\/40277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}