Former India cricketer VVS Laxman acknowledged that it was a fantastic gesture by Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma handy over the T20 World Cup 2024 trophy to Rahul Dravid. It was a particular second for India in Barbados as they ended their 13-year-long drought of an ICC World Cup following a slender 7-run win over South Africa. Dravid celebrated by leaping out of his chair, expressing the aid and pleasure that thousands and thousands of Indian followers internationally had been feeling.
The victory turned out to be redemption for Dravid, who served because the captain of the Indian crew in 2007, when India surprisingly crashed out of the World Cup within the West Indies, which lingered within the cricketing historical past of the nation.
Nonetheless, on the identical soil, Dravid turned the nightmare right into a day to recollect by admiring the thing he desired and holding it aloft excessive within the air for the primary time in his illustrious profession.
Dravid, who is called “The Wall”, a person who not often exhibits his emotion, letting it out and making the triumph much more memorable.
“When he (Dravid) lifted the World Cup, I assumed it was a fantastic gesture by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli handy over that trophy, and the best way he celebrated lifting that trophy confirmed how a lot it meant to every considered one of them. The quantity of arduous work they put in. The celebration advised the larger story behind this victory,” Laxman mentioned in a video posted by BCCI on X.
How a lot the #T20WorldCup triumph means to India?
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— BCCI (@BCCI) July 12, 2024
Rohit collapsed to the bottom because the final wicket fell, sealing the victory. The feelings had been seen on the face of each participant. Rohit went on to carry the ICC T20 World Cup hero, Hardik, who was in tears after defending 16 runs within the closing over towards South Africa.
He kissed Hardik on the cheek because the emotional all-rounder was talking after the match.
“Everybody confirmed their feelings. So it confirmed how a lot it meant to every participant of that sport. , it is not solely the enjoying 11, however even the assist workers, the teaching workers, feelings had been actually excessive. You noticed Hardik Pandya break down and, you recognize, exhibiting his feelings as soon as he bowled his final supply, you noticed Rohit Sharma on the bottom. Then somebody like Rahul, with whom I’ve performed a lot of cricket, recognized him for therefore a few years, for him to indicate that feelings, first when the final ball was bowled, after which, you recognize, simply… the conversations he was having with numerous crew members,” he mentioned.
“It’s a particular feeling, maintaining in thoughts that we’ve got come shut. Simply six months again, you recognize, we should always have gained the 50-over World Cup, dominating your complete event, after which not capable of cross the ultimate hurdle. So it is a particular feeling for everybody concerned, not solely as a former cricketer, however I believe your complete nation is rejoicing with this end result,” he added.
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