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Color and noise filled India’s streets on Saturday night as the country celebrated its cricket team’s dramatic triumph at the men’s T20 World Cup, defeating South Africa by just seven runs ...
India won their second T20 World Cup title, equalling the West Indies and England in most tournaments won. [45] India also broke the record of the longest time between successive tournament wins (17 years), breaking the record of 12 years set by England. [46] India also became the first team to win the T20 World Cup by winning 8 matches without ...
India beat Ceylon 1–0 in first match of the tour. Though it was an All-Bengal team, it was an Indian team by all means. The second known official international tour of the Indian team, which at that time consisted of both Indian and British players, was to South Africa in 1934 when it was led by Indian footballer Gostha Pal. [5]
India went on to win the 2023 Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka in R. Premadasa Stadium by ten wickets . [74] Kuldeep Yadav was the player of the tournament with nine wickets. Meanwhile, the Indian men's cricket team secured a gold medal in 2022 Asian games due to higher seeding after the final against Afghanisthan was washed out. [75]
In the men's team event, the third seeded Indian team lost to the lower seeded Turkey in the quarterfinals. The Indian team lost the first two sets before they won a closely contested third set by a score of 55–54. But the Turkish team won the fourth set easily to win the match and send India out of the competition. [25]
It was the first time that two Asian teams had faced each other in an ODI World Cup final. India won the match by six wickets—its second World Cup win after the 1983 tournament—and became the third team to have won the title more than once, after Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007) and the West Indies (1975 and 1979). [3]
India's first medal of the Games was won by Sanket Sargar with a silver in weightlifting. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won the first gold medal for the country, also in weightlifting. [6] India won its first ever medals in Lawn Bowls after the Women's Fours team won the Gold medal, and were followed by the Men's fours team winning a silver medal.
India is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket. The ICC Men's T20 World Cup has been hosted by the ICC in the T20I format since 2007. There have been nine editions of the tournament and India has participated in every edition.