Indian players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have announced their retirement from their T20 career after winning the T20 World Cup 2024 against South Africa.
The Indian team won their second T20 title by defeating South Africa by seven runs in the T20 World Cup final. Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 76 runs in 59 balls in this final match, while Rohit Sharma contributed 9 runs. After winning the match, Virat and Rohit said goodbye to their T20 career.
Let us tell you that earlier India won its first ICC T20 World Cup title in the year 2007 under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
After winning the title, Virat Kohli said, “This was my last T20 World Cup. This title is what I wanted to achieve. This was my last T20 match for India. We wanted to lift this cup.” Let us tell you that Virat Kohli has played 125 T20I matches, in which he has scored 4188 runs at a strike rate of 137.04. Along with this, his highest score of 122 * is also included during this period. He has scored one century and 38 half-centuries in his T20I career. Along with batting, he has also shown amazing performance in bowling. Virat Kohli has also taken four wickets to his name.
Rohit Sharma has scored 4231 runs in 159 matches, which includes his five centuries and 37 half-centuries. Along with this, his highest score in this format is 121 * runs.
Virat Kohli made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe in the year 2010. He is also the fastest batsman to reach the 3,500-run mark in T20I, he achieved this feat in just 96 innings.
Virat Kohli has also been the former captain of the Indian team. He remains the only player to score the most runs in two different T20 World Cups.
Kohli scored 319 runs in the 2014 World Cup in Bangladesh and followed it up with 296 in the 2022 edition in Australia. In 2014, Virat scored 319 runs at an average of 106.33, which is the most runs scored by any batsman in a single edition of the T20 World Cup.
Apart from this, Kohli was also named in the ICC Men’s T20I Team of the Decade from 2011 to 2020.
