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With only 51 days to go to the Paris Paralympic Games, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) announced an initial squad of 26 to represent Team SA.
As the Indian cricket team won the T20 World Cup 2024, beating South Africa in the final, the Player of the Match award went to Virat Kohli. His 59-ball 76 took India to a defendable total of 176, chasing which, the Proteas fell short of 7 runs. Despite Kohli's knock proving to be instrumental in India's victory in the final, there are some who feel he shouldn't have been given the Player of the Match award. In fact, former India opener Wasim Jaffer feels Kohli wasn't even the team's most important batter in the final.
On the back of a breakthrough season in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Rajasthan Royals batter Riyan Parag has been rewarded with an India call-up for the upcoming T20I series against Zimbabwe. Parag was the third-highest run-scorer in IPL 2024 with 573 runs in 16 matches. In spite of discussions regarding his selection for the T20 World Cup, Parag did not find a place in the squad of the tournament, which India won after beating South Africa in the final.
Team India vice-captain Hardik Pandya had a mentally draining couple of months during the Indian Premier League (IPL) earlier this year. The star all-rounder was trolled and booed by fans after he took charge of the Mumbai Indians, replacing Rohit Sharma as captain. MI's decision to sack Rohit as captain didn't go down well with the fans. As a result, Hardik was continuously targetted by fans across stadiums. However, Hardik managed to re-earn the respect of the fans by playing an instrumental role in India's T20 World Cup success.
Before scripting a moment that he would never forget in his life, India's stalwart batter, Virat Kohli, disclosed that he wasn't confident about delivering a performance in the T20 World Cup final in Barbados. Before the final, in seven matches, Kohli, with all his experience, struggled to find that elusive purple patch and put together a string of performances that he enjoyed in the Indian Premier League. Before the final, he could only muster up just 75 runs at an average of 10.71, which was well below the standards that he had set over the years.
In a couple of weeks' time, when Ireland are home from South Africa and Jack Crowley is winding down on the golf course, the out-half is going to reflect on a long and formative season.
It's been more than a week since India defeated England in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Guyana, avenging their 10-wicket defeat to the same side two years back at the same stage. The Rohit Sharma-led side also defeated South Africa last Saturday to clinch the T20 World Cup title in Barbados. Following Afghanistan's crushing loss to South Africa in the other semi-final, former England captain Michael Vaughan had accused the organisers for favouring India, questioning the scheduling of the tournament.
:TJ Perenara will start at scrumhalf in Scott Robertson's first All Blacks team, partnering with pivot Damian McKenzie for Saturday's series-opening test against England in Dunedin.