The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the team of the tournament for the T20 World Cup 2024, co-hosted by the USA and West Indies.
Six players from the Indian team which won the title at Barbados, featured in the team of the tournament. However, Virat Kohli, who played a crucial inning for his team in the Final with 76 runs, missed out from the list.
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Team India lifted their second T20 World Cup title after beating South Africa by seven runs in the final, after a gap of 17 years since their first win in the inaugural 2007 edition.
Why was Virat Kohli not included in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024's team of the tournament?
The team of the tournament featured eleven of the top-performers in the recently concluded T20 World Cup 2024.
The team featured six Indian players including captain Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah, but the match-winner of the Final, Virat Kohli had to miss out.
The list also featured batters which included opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis, and despite not winning the title, all these players had a much better tournament individually compared to Kohli.
Kohli had scored just 151 runs in his 8 matches, with more than half of his runs coming in the Final match against South Africa. As an opener, he would have had to compete for the opening spot with Afghanistan's Gurbaz, who was the top run-scorer in the tournament, with 281 runs.
The Indian opener was consistently picked in the teams of the tournament in previous editions of the World Cup, but his underwhelming performance in 2024 barring the final, meant that it into the final list.
How many runs has Virat Kohli scored in T20 World Cup 2024?
The Indian opener and World Cup-winner was ranked 19th for the most runs scored in the tournament.
| Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | Strike Rate | 50s | High Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 8 | 151 | 18.87 | 112.68 | 1 | 76 |
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What is the ICC T20 World Cup 2024's team of the tournament?
The ICC had announced their team of the tournament for the T20 World Cup 2024 on their website.
| Number | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rohit Sharma | India |
| 2 | Rahmanullah Gurbaz | Afghanistan |
| 3 | Nicholas Pooran | West Indies |
| 4 | Suryakumar Yadav | India |
| 5 | Marcus Stoinis | Australia |
| 6 | Hardik Pandya | India |
| 7 | Axar Patel | India |
| 8 | Rashid Khan | Afghanistan |
| 9 | Jasprit Bumrah | India |
| 10 | Arshdeep Singh | India |
| 11 | Fazalhaq Farooqi | Afghanistan |
| 12th Man | Anrich Nortje | South Africa |
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