India won the Twenty20 World Cup (Team India Win T20 WC 2024) by defeating South Africa by seven runs in a thrilling final played at Kensington Oval. 2007 champions India scored 176-7. Virat Kohli (76) hit his first half-century in this World Cup and Axar Patel scored 47 runs to take India to a strong score.

Kohli said this with the announcement of retirement

Virat Kohli (Virat Kohli Announced Retirement From T20I) announced his retirement from T20 International, Virat said that now it's time for the next generation to take over. This was my last T20 World Cup, this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel that you cannot score runs and it happens, God is great. Just a chance, now or never kind of situation. It was my last T20 match playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup. Yes I did, it was an open secret. Not something I was going to declare even if I lost. It's time for the next generation to take the T20 game forward. It's been a long wait for us, a wait to win an ICC tournament. You look at someone like Rohit, he has played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth. He deserves it. It has been difficult to hold back things (emotions) and I think it's going to make sense later.