‘I’d be lying if I said I was not worried’ – Jasprit Bumrah recalls India’s miraculous T20 World Cup 2024 final comeback

Jasprit Bumrah recalls India’s miraculous T20 World Cup 2024 final comeback. (Source – Getty Images)

The highlight of 2024 for India was winning the T20 World Cup in June. Though the Indian team were unbeaten throughout the tournament, they faced a tough opponent in South Africa in the finals. India posted a target of 177 runs after opting to bat first upon winning the toss. South Africa orchestrated a calculated chase and at one point had a tight grip on the game.

They were so dreadful that the equation came to run a ball in the last five overs. Jasprit Bumrah, who led the Indian pace attack and pulled India out of another ICC event heartbreak, recently admitted that he was tensed and worried regarding the result when South Africa required only 30 off 30. However, it was Bumrah who turned the game on ITS head with his miraculous effort.

Bowling the 16th over, the star pacer conceded just four runs against the marauding Heinrich Klaasen and big-hitter David Miller. He came to bowl the 18th over and picked the wicket of Marco Jansen and conceded just two runs as India were to defend 20 of last two overs.  Bumrah’s crucial contribution in the final could be gauged by the fact that he ended with the figures of 2/18 and an economy rate of 4.50.

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“When the score had come to 30 off 30, I would be lying if I said I was not worried and that I knew I could make a role. But no. We were worried, but I was somehow talking to myself that okay, you stay positive, you still have to stay in the game, and try and get your team back because the game is still not over, still 30 runs are left,” said Bumrah as quoted News18.

“Then when I came in the second last over, I saw the ball was reverse swinging a little bit. That doesn’t happen a lot in white-ball cricket. So then I realised if I can squeeze in a good over, the run-rate will become higher and higher and it’s a final so the pressure keeps mounting up. So when the ball started to reverse then I started to use my experience in how to use it to the best of my advantage,” he added.

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