Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retired from the shortest format of the sport following India’s T20 World Cup 2024 win in Barbados.

Mumbai: Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya and all different Indian gamers sang ‘Vande Mataram’ together with the entire Wankhede crowd throughout their T20 World Cup-winning celebration on Thursday. After an extended hectic day the place the Indian gamers met PM Modi in Delhi, Rohit Sharma and his boys had an open-bus victory parade in Mumbai from Nariman Level to the Wankhede Stadium. The second introduced again reminiscences from 2011 when the entire crowd chanted the identical as MS Dhoni hit the profitable six in opposition to Sri Lanka within the ODI World Cup closing.

The Males in Blue entered the bottom amid loud cheers and had been felicitated by the BCCI with a Rs 125 crore prize cash for profitable the T20 World Cup for the second time in historical past. Following the felicitation programme, the entire workforce had a victory lap across the stadium the place the gamers had been caught singing the patriotic tune.

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In the meantime, an ocean of humanity greeted the victory parade of the T20 World Cup profitable Indian workforce in South Mumbai’s Marine Drive as hundreds of passionate followers gathered to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars, bringing the site visitors to an entire standstill. The open bus parade, which was delayed by greater than a few hours, began from the Nationwide Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) in Nariman Level put up 7:30 PM and went until the Wankhede Stadium.

In 2007, Rohit Sharma was the youngest member of the Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s epoch-making squad and now at 37, for him to guide his T20 World Champion Indian cricket workforce on a victory parade should have given him a way of deja vu.
He’s now the oldest member of this present workforce, ‘been there and finished that’ and even because the faces round him modified in additional than one-and-a-half a long time, the now-retired Indian T20 skipper remained a continuing for all these years.

AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY

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Because the bus handed by the ocean of people, his thoughts should have travelled again to that September morning in 2007 when Mumbai was as drenched because it was this Thursday night. Chants of “Mumbaicha Raja, Rohit Sharma” (Who’s the King of Mumbai? Rohit Sharma) reverberated by the roads.

Loud Cheers For Hardik

Then there was Hardik Pandya, who in all probability discovered natural acceptance, after a stellar T20 World Cup marketing campaign as he was the primary to carry the trophy and present it to the followers. The as soon as jeered ‘Mumbai Indian’ was the cheered ‘Indian’ in Mumbai. The ‘Most Metropolis’ was able to bathe ‘Most Love’ for the colorful ‘Baroda Bomber’, who has made Mumbai his residence.

The gamers lapped up, the frenzy, mass euphoria for a nation that loves its cricketers far more than the sport itself. A glimpse of Virat Kohli was what many would have longed for. The King didn’t disappoint. Actually, he pulled skipper together with Suryakumar Yadav and Axar Patel to bop to the beats of well-known Nashik Dholwalas at Wankhede quickly after they arrived on the floor.

Earlier, the Indian workforce might solely fly from New Delhi round 3:42 PM after a breakfast assembly with the Indian PM Narendra Modi, having returned from Barbados within the wee hours. The Wankhede Stadium right here was thrown open to followers, who crammed up the stands inside minutes to have a good time the workforce’s title triumph.

After touchdown within the metropolis, their plane acquired the well-known ‘Water Salute’ on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport’s Terminal 2. The gamers walked out of the airport with a sea of followers and media ready for them for a number of hours.