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The final of the T20 World Cup will take place between India and South Africa tonight at 8 pm. Team India has been waiting for the trophy of this tournament since 2007, whereas South Africa has not won a single World Cup till date.
In the T-20 World Cup, India played 7 knockout matches, won 4 and lost 3. Whereas this time South Africa won the first knockout match by winning the semi-finals. Earlier the team had lost 2 semi-finals. Let us know further in the story about the track record of both the teams in the tournament history…
India third, South Africa first in final
Both the teams have participated in the T20 World Cup continuously since 2007. India already won the tournament title, while the African team was eliminated from the group stage. Team India then finished runner-up in 2014, while losing the semi-finals in 2016 and 2022. Now the team has reached the tournament final for the third time. India got 57% success in the knockouts, the team won 4 matches and lost 3. India could not cross the group stage in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2021.
On the other hand, South Africa exited after losing the semi-finals twice in 2009 and 2014. Now after 10 years, the team again reached the knockout stage and entered its first final by winning the semi-finals. He lost 67% of his knockout matches. The team was out of the group stage in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2021 and 2022. That means Team India is ahead in the race for trophy, final and knockout.
India won 69%, South Africa won 67% World Cup matches
India is the country that has won the most 35 matches in T-20 World Cup history. The team’s win percentage is 69%, and they have lost only 15 matches. South Africa has also lost only 15 matches in the tournament, but the team’s winning percentage is less than India at 67%. He has won 32 matches so far.
However, both the teams are invincible in this time’s T-20 World Cup. India has won 7 matches and South Africa has won 8 matches. One of India’s matches remained inconclusive due to rain. In the history of the tournament, an invincible team had never become the champion. Today, if either team wins, the trend of the invincible team not becoming the champion will definitely be broken.
See in the next graphic what percentage of matches both the teams won in each World Cup…
India has the upper hand in T20 World Cup
6 matches were played between the two teams in the tournament history. India won in 4 and South Africa won in only 2. In 2007, India entered the semi-finals by defeating South Africa in the Super-8 stage match at their home ground Durban.
In 2014, both the teams met in the semi-finals on the grounds of Mirpur. South Africa scored 172 runs, but India won the match by 6 wickets with the help of Virat Kohli’s 72 runs. The last match between the two was played in Perth in 2022, South Africa won the match by 5 wickets which lasted till the 20th over.
India also has the upper hand in T-20 International
India also dominated overall in T-20 International. 26 matches were played between the two. India won 14 and South Africa won 11. On 1 December 2006, India faced South Africa for the first time, India won by 6 wickets. This was Team India’s first match in T-20 history.
The last time a 3-T20 series was played between the two in December 2023, which ended in a 1-1 draw. One match of the series remained inconclusive due to rain. In 2010, both the teams had also faced each other in West Indies, when India won the match by 14 runs on the basis of Suresh Raina’s century. This is the only century by an Indian player in T20 World Cup history.
Kohli is India’s top batsman, North Africa’s top bowler.
Virat Kohli has scored the maximum 1216 runs in the T-20 World Cup. After him, Rohit Sharma has also scored 1211 runs in the tournament. Whereas no player from South Africa could score more than 800 runs. AB de Villiers is the top run scorer of the team, Quinton de Kock has scored the highest 614 runs in the current squad.
South Africa’s Enrique Nortya is the team’s top wicket taker in tournament history with 33 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin from India has taken the maximum 32 wickets for the team. Arshdeep Singh is on top in the current squad with 25 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah has also taken 24 wickets.
Finally see the highest and lowest scores of both the teams…
