T20 World Cup 2022 / Cricket got its first double champion – became champion for the second time by defeating Pakistan

T20 World Cup 2022: England has won the T20 World Cup title for the second time after 12 years after 2010. In the final match of T20 World Cup 2022 played in Australia, England captured the trophy by defeating Pakistan by 5 wickets. In 2019, England won the ODI World Cup by defeating New Zealand, while after three years once again this team won the ICC title. After winning the tournament in 2010 under the captaincy of Paul Collingwood, England have now become champions under the captaincy of Jos Buttler.

How was the match?

Talking about the final match, after losing the toss, Pakistan's batting looked shaky from the very beginning. Sam Karan clean bowled Mohammad Rizwan and gave Pakistan the first success. After this, Mohammad Haris also could not last long and became the victim of Adil Rashid for 8 runs. After this, Babar Azam stood at one end but Adil Rashid did not let him last too long and sent the Pakistani captain to the pavilion on the score of 32 in his own bowling.

Shan Masood stood firm at one end but wickets were falling at the other end. Iftikhar Ahmed could not even open the account. Shadab Khan supported Masood in an innings of 20 runs off 14 balls and added 36 runs for the 5th wicket. But after this the Pakistani team could not emerge from back to back wickets. At the end of 20 overs, Pakistan's score was 137 for 8 wickets. Chasing a target of 138 runs, England did not get off to a good start and in the first over itself, the hero of the previous match, Alex Hales, was clean bowled by Shaheen Afridi for 1 run.

Stokes pulled out the match

WHAT A WIN! 🎉

England are the new #T20WorldCup champions! 🤩#PAKvENG | #T20WorldCupFinal | 📝 https://t.co/HdpneOINqo pic.twitter.com/qK3WPai1Ck

— ICC (@ICC) November 13, 2022

At one end, captain Jos Buttler kept the innings in check and played an inning of 26 runs in 17 balls. Phil Salt also could not take the inning forward by scoring 10 runs. Haris Rauf gave two back to back blows to England and sent three English players to the pavilion in the powerplay. After this, Harry Brook (20) supported Ben Stokes and shared a 39-run partnership for the fourth wicket. After this Brook became the victim of Shadab Khan, but Pakistan's hopes remained in danger as long as Stokes stood firm.

Shaheen Afridi came to bowl the 16th over, who could not complete the over due to injury and bowled only one ball. After this, Iftikhar Ahmed came to complete his over, who gave 13 runs in five balls, in which Stokes hit a four and a six, dimming Pakistan's hopes. England needed 28 runs in the last 4 overs. From here England got momentum and Moeen Ali also took the lead. Stokes played a match-winning inning of 52 runs off 49 balls and made England the world champions by reaching the target in 19 overs.