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Resolute India beat South Africa in thrilling final to lift T20 World Cup
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- India 176-7; South Africa 169-8. India win by seven runs
- Sharma’s side end 13-year wait to win a World Cup
After the heartbreak in Ahmedabad came a redemption song in the Caribbean, India holding their nerve at the end of a nail-biting final to send the agony in South Africa’s direction and claim the men’s T20 World Cup for the second time.
As Rohit Sharma’s men celebrated on the outfield, tricolor flags waving in the breeze after closing out a seven-run victory, the joy and the relief were palpable. Theirs had been a relatively frictionless unbeaten cruise to the final but then so was that ultimately thwarted 50-over World Cup campaign on home soil late last year.
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