India vs South Africa, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: IND end 11 years of pain, come out on top in thrilling final

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Markram returns for the eighth over. Two singles off the first two balls and then Axar goes down on a knee and sends the third ball over deep midwicket for his first six of the day. Another two singles after that, Axar is on 18 off 13, Kohli on 29 off 24.

IND vs SA Live SCore: India 59/3 in 8 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Rohit, Pant and Surya are not brooding inside the dressing room. They are out in the balcony and cheering the batters on. This is all hands to deck time for India. Kohli has hunkered down for the long haul clearly and for now, Axar is doing the same. Four singles in that over. Kohli is on 27 off 22, Axar on 10 off nine.

IND vs SA Live Score: India 49/3 in 7 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Kohli much more watchful now. Aiden Markram bowls the last over of the powerplay and six singles come in it. Kohli is on 25 off 19, Axar Patel on eight off six. Now Anrich Nortje to bowl the seventh. The South African bowling lineup is relentless, especially if they get off to a good start and they have done that and more here.

IND vs SA Live Score: India 45/3 in 6 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Surya trying to get going and perishes. Rabada and South Africa are a cock-a-hoop, this is probably the wicket they wanted the most and they've got it inside the powerplay. Back of a length ball for the third ball of the fifth, SKY steps across and whips it away. Klaasen is there in the deep to take the catch. India's attacking intent served them well thus far in the tournament but not today, thus far.

Suryakumar Yadav c Klaasen b Rabada 3 (4))

IND vs SA Live Score: India 34/3 in 4.3 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Amid all the caginess, Kohli has kept a strike rate close to 140 going. Maharaj goes short and wide fourth ball, Kohli slaps it past cover for another four. Two runs off the first ball. He is on 21 off 15, SKY on two off two.

IND vs SA Live Score: India 32/2 in 4 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Kagiso Rabada brought in for the third. Kohli gets off strike fourth ball and then Suryakumar Yadav just about clears mid-on with a lofted shot off the last. Two runs for India off that. It is as tense as it gets for the men in blue at the moment.

IND vs SA Live Score: India 26/2 in 3 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: What a start this is now for South Africa. Rohit and Pant, two of India's most potent weapons, gone in the second over. Pant gone for a duck. He sweeps the last ball of the over, ends up meeting the delivery on the full and the ball baloons up in the air to Quinton de Kock for an easy catch. India were off to a flier in the first over, they have been brought crashing back to the ground in the second.

Pant c de Kock b Maharaj 0 (2)

IND vs SA Live Score: India 23/2 in 2 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Two fours and out for the Indian captain, huge breakthrough for South Africa. Floated up slow on off for the fourth ball of the second, Rohit sweeps it and Klaasen takes a very sharp catch diving two handed at square leg.

Rohit Sharma c Klaasen b Maharaj 9 (5)

IND vs SA Live Score: 23/1 in 1.4 overs

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Marco Jansen doesn't do a very good job of keeping Virat Kohli down when he is searching for form here. Rohit gets off strike first ball, then Kohli gets a nice juicy half volley and puts it away between backward point and cover point for a four. Another freebie after that from Jansen, half volley swinging into Kohli's pads and the Indian superstar tucks it away past midwicket for another four.

IND vs SA Live Score: India 15/0 in 1 over

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Rohit Sharma on strike, Vrat Kohli at the other end. Marco Jansen with the ball in his hands for South Africa. This is it folks! Here we go!

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: The Kensington Oval is buzzing. The two sets of players are standing adjacent to each other with the officials in between. First comes India's national anthem, and then South Africa's.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Chris Gayle is not alone in doing that. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley accompanies him out. We will have the players out shortly for the national anthems as well.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Aiden Markram says there is no pressure on them, they have never been in a final. They see no need to change the team that has done so well thus far.

South Africa XI: Quinton de Kock(w), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram(c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: No unexpected re-entry for Mohammed Siraj. Rohit doesn't want to fix anything that is not broken.

India XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Ravi Shastri makes the Kensington Oval shake with his voice. Rohit Sharma calls it right and he says India are batting first. Richie Richardson is the match referee today.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Ian Bishop and Nasser Hussain on the pitch report today. Interesting looking surface, it's been that way all tournament, he says. They've done a fair bit of rolling, but there's no live grass to hold it together. “It's fairly hard to start with so I'm hoping the ball comes onto the bat quite nicely,” he says. Hussain says that there is a wind blowing towards the shorter boundary. “So you can imagine Quinton de Kock picking up leg side or Suryakumar Yadav opening up the offside,” he says.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: India's last ICC trophy came in the form of the 2013 Champions Trophy. Since then, well, it hasn't been smooth sailing. They lost in the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup, in the semi-final of the 2015 World Cup, the semi-final of the 2016 T20 World Cup, the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup, the group stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup, the semi-final of the 2022 T20 World Cup and finally, the final of the 2023 World Cup. Mostly quite close, and yet very far.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: This will be the third final for Rahul Dravid as head coach, with Rohit Sharma as captain of course. One may have to remember that Dravid had been involved with the NCA and the Indian underage teams for many years before he took over as head coach, and he was a commentator even before that. And before all of that, of course, he was one of the finest batters the world has ever seen and one of the most important captains in Indian cricket's history. It has been a long run in the spotlight for a man who doesn't really seek it at all. And so, there is a very good chance that we might not see Dravid anywhere for quite a while after this T20 World Cup. Even the neutrals would be wanting The Wall to go out smiling.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Unlike South Africa, who got into a muddle a few times and then won those clutch moments, India didn't really encounter too many of those. They were arguably challenged the most by Pakistan, who lost a chase that looked nicely snuggled in their kitty for most of the match, and Australia, who really gave a steep target a red-hot go. But even those teams couldn't really give the match a last-over jeopardy.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: It's all clear in Bridgetown. Well not really, because there is a grayish tinge to the sky but the sun is shining through nice and bright. There is a crowd slowly building up, most of them Indians. Chances of today's game being adversely affected by rain seem quite less but best get your dancing shoes on to ward off any evil clouds just in case.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: His good friend Virat Kohli maybe playing in the final but AB de Villiers is in no doubts as to who he wants to see lift that trophy. The great man has been part of so many of the heartbreaking campaigns South Africa have been through over the years, most prominent the 2015 World Cup, and now he has a chance to see his country lift a major trophy. "The moment of truth has arrived. South Africans have been waiting for 33 years to see the Proteas play in an ICC World Cup final. After so many heartbreaks, we know all about them. South Africa will play India in the T20 World Cup final in Barbados on Saturday and I am backing the Proteas to win. It will be close as we all know India are a team of superstars but I believe South Africa's time has come," he said on his social media handle.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: The former India captain kept Virat Kohli in some very fine company indeed when explaining why he thinks the latter is going to have a good day today. “People like Kohli, Tendulkar, Dravid, they are institutions for Indian cricket. Three-four matches don’t make them weaker players. Don’t rule him out in the final tomorrow,” Ganguly said.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Virtually all of South Africa's big-hitters have had their day in the sun in this tournament. Quinton de Kock scored consecutive half-centuries against the USA and England. David Miller led a tense chase against the Netherlands with a half-century and he and Heinrich Klaasen have provided middle order steel a number of times whenever South Africa's top order has failed. Aiden Markram has been spotty but useful at the top of the order. Tristan Stubbs has backed up the big performers while Reeza Hendricks is yet to hit the highs. It is a good pitch at the Kensington Oval and so India have their task cut out.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: India's spinners have often been responsible for slowing teams down after the powerplay, or tightening the chokehold already applied by the pacers in that period. However, today they are up against a spin-killer in Heinrich Klaasen. The Proteas middle order genius has been in good nick in this tournament, scoring 138 runs in seven innings at an average of 27.60 and strike rate of 112.19. Don't let those numbers fool you. Like India, South Africa have had their fair share of arduous batting conditions and a strike rate above 100 in itself is quite incredible.

India vs South Africa Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024 Final, IND vs SA: Fans would've probably thought that those days are gone where they would see Virat Kohli struggling to put bat to ball, and when he did, he would be dismissed more often than not. For three years between 2019 and 2022, Kohli was a shadow of himself, struggling to get the centuries that he used to be reeling off for fun in ODIs and Tests. And then the flood returned and Kohli has been almost as good as he was between 2016 and 2019 ever since. He showed in this year's IPL that he can play with the intent needed as a present-day T20 opener by finishing with the Orange Cap at his highest-ever strike rate in the tournament. And yet, those dry days seem to have returned to haunt him in this T20 World Cup. He has managed just 75 runs at the top of the order in seven innings in this tournament.