T20 World Cup 2024: Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli prove why cricket is a funny sport

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T20 World Cup 2024: India ended their 11-year wait for an ICC trophy after beating South Africa by seven runs in the T20 World Cup 2024 final at the Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday, June 29.

This is India's first T20 World Cup trophy in 17 years, and first World Cup trophy (T20I or ODI) in 13 years. India, who lost the final of ODI World Cup 2023, overcame their heartbreak to bring smiles on the faces of billions.

It all looked lost for India as South Africa were in need of just 30 runs off the last 30 balls with six wickets in hand. But India proved why cricket is a funny sport by bouncing back from there and beating South Africa by seven runs. However, that was not the only funny instance in India's T20 World Cup campaign which proved that cricket is a funny sport.

Three instances from India's T20 World Cup 2024 campaign which proved why cricket is a funny sport

• Virat Kohli changed his T20I template to play as an opener in the T20 World Cup 2024. In the seven innings of the tournament ahead of the final, Kohli managed to score just 75 runs at an average of just under eleven.

Had it been some other batter, he would have been dropped from the playing eleven. Ironically, Kohli went back to his original template after India were reduced to 34/3 and top-scored for India. He brought up his fifty off 48 balls and then finished at a score of 76 runs off 59 balls as India posted 176/7 - the highest-ever total in the T20 World Cup final.

• India's former Test specialist Rahul Dravid is now the T20 World Cup-winning coach of the Indian cricket team. Dravid never won a World Cup trophy in his playing career. As the head coach of the Indian cricket team, he lost the World Test Championship (WTC) final in 2023 and ODI World Cup final months later in the same year.

As fate had it, Rahul Dravid managed to win the T20 World Cup 2024 title on his last day at office as India head coach. The dream he must have seen as a kid, got fulfilled at the age of 51.

• Rohit Sharma has on multiple occasions said that winning the ODI World Cup was his biggest dream. He smashed five hundred in the 2019 World Cup but India narrowly lost in the semi-final. He led the team unbeaten in the 2023 World Cup but India lost in the final.

Rohit Sharma will be 40-year-old in 2027 when the ODI World Cup will be held in South Africa. Chances of him featuring in the tournament is low, but God did give him some reprieve and gave him the opportunity to win his second T20 World Cup.