Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India ended the 13-year wait for the ICC trophy. Team India defeated South Africa by 7 runs in the final and won the T20 World Cup after 17 years and the ICC trophy after 13 years. Team India challenged South Africa to score 177 runs to win. But Team India’s bowlers stopped South Africa at 169 runs and registered their name on the World Cup trophy. After this historic victory of Team India, both Team India captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli decided to retire from T20I cricket. Virat and Rohit’s T20 journey with Team India has ended. With this, the career of Team India’s head coach also ended. Under Dravid’s guidance, Team India had to accept defeat in 2 ICC finals. Therefore, Dravid was criticized. But Dravid gave a historic and unforgettable farewell to Team India by winning the World Cup trophy.
Dravid’s performance as a coach
Team India has played 8 Test series under the leadership of Rahul Dravid. Out of which Team India has won 6 series. 1 series was lost and 1 series was drawn. Meanwhile, Team India lost the chance to win the series by winning the fifth Test match against England. Also, Team India had to face defeat in the WTC final. During Dravid’s tenure, Team India won 14 out of 24 matches, lost 7 and 3 matches were drawn.
Team India won the Asia Cup in 2023. But Team India failed in the ICC tournament. Team India had to face defeat in the T20 World Cup 2022 semi-final, WTC final and ODI WC 2023 final. But Rahul Dravid’s last day as a coach was unforgettable. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and guidance of Rahul Dravid, Team India won the T20 World Cup after 17 years. With this victory, Team India gave a victorious and memorable farewell to Rahul Dravid.
Farewell to Dravid Guruji with the World Cup trophy
The dream is over! ☺️ 🏆
Signing the signature in legendary style! 🫡 🫡
Congratulations #TeamIndia Head coach Rahul Dravid on unbelievable #T20WorldCup Campaign 👏👏#SAvIND pic.twitter.com/GMO216VuXy
– BCCI (@BCCI) 29 June 2024
BCCI i.e. Board of Control for Cricket in India had posted 2 special pictures of Rahul Dravid. In these pictures, Dravid is showing thumbs up. In the second photo, he is holding the ICC T20 World Cup trophy in his hand.
South Africa Playing XI: Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Reeza Hendricks, Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrique Norkhia and Tabraiz Shamsi.
Team India’s playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah.
