Inspiring India!

Finally, India won the T20 world cup. India remained unbeaten throughout the tournament. Best part was, final was contested hard, both the teams put everything to win the match. It could have gone anyways and this time it went India’s match. Bad luck to South Africa once again.

As the fever settles down, let us look objectively those turning points in the match.

There were many defining moments of this match, but couple of them stood out and what we can really learn from this game.

Axar Patel playing a wonderful knock of 47 coming higher up in the order, not to forget Virat Kohli’s anchoring innings on the other end.

India finishing 176 for 7 is the highest total in a world cup final by any team.

Klaasen hitting 24 runs of Axar’s over and getting SA ahead of India in the match

Klaasen getting out playing a rash shot on the bowling of Hardik at 52 runs when SA needed just 26 from 24 balls. (With Rishabh Pant taking a break to bandage his leg, Klaasen could also have used this time to settle his nerves, looked at the scoreboard and evaluate the situation. They required run a ball which could be easily achieved.

Hardik, Bumrah and Arshdeep choking SA as they score only 8 runs in next 20 deliveries

Finally, Miller getting out at 21 on the first bowl by Hardik when they needed 16 runs from 6 balls, an extraordinary catch by Suryakumar Yadav on the boundary. If this had gone for six, then SA would need 10 out of 5, making their task easier, and shifting the momentum SA way.

To conclude, SA lost the match in last four overs.

Match was kind of roller coaster and India kept coming back in the game. 

In the post-match press conference, what Rohit Sharma said was really an inspiration for those who are struggling and going through the tough times. Let’s point them out one by one.

This was a team effort and not one player or one performance can help you win world cup. This was one world cup where everyone in India shined and gave their best. Organizations succeed and achieve their goals when everyone comes together and give their best. Rohit (Leader) appreciating all his team members and coach Rahul Dravid.

Last four years, they have been working hard to reach here and win the cup. There was lot of hard work put in behind the scene and there were many failures in this journey. But they got up as a team and started working hard again. Every player individually and as well as, as a team put all their efforts to win the cup.

Success comes after consistent hard work, effort and improving of your skills. It will take time to reach there as a team. There will be failures in the journey but need to accept, learn and move on. Learn from your mistakes and improve yourself, individually and as a team.

Roles and responsibilities of all team members were clear. They knew what was expected out of them. To win the cup, you need to give more than 100%. Everyone puts their heart and body and give more than their best to win such tournaments.

Every team member needs to give his best to make the teams and the organization successful. Their objectives and expectations, their roles and responsibilities need to be clear.

Free hand given by the coach and the management to go out and play the way they believe is the best because ultimately, they have to perform in the ground.

Management and leaders need to give people freedom to work in the way they feel comfortable and at ease.

Coach and the team players need to work together with a consensus. Coach needs to interfere minimum and let the players function in their own way. (This is what Rahul Dravid was doing

Job of a coach and a leader is to support them and not to dictate or suppress their natural way of working. Coach supressing his instincts and working with the wavelength of team members, listening to what they want. Ultimately, it’s the players who are going to perform.

They came multiple times closer to the cup but failed in the finals. This time they really wanted it badly, individually and as a team.

You need to really want the success badly and give your best to win the game. Half hearted attempts will not take you there.

Every moment has its own charm and not comparing them, when comparing with the catch of 1983 world cup.

He answers in Hindi to a question of coming close and still losing ‘they were destined to win this time. It was already written, but you don’t know before the match, that’s the game (of life).

To summarize, it was all the need, the drive, consistent hard work, support and teamwork that finally got India the world cup.

Thank you for reading.

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