More than 15 days have passed since the T20 World Cup ended. The T20 World Cup, which began on 22 October, ended on 13 November. The England team became the world champion for the second time in T20 by defeating Pakistan in the final. The Indian team, which was considered a strong contender to win this tournament, was defeated by England in the semi-finals. However, Team India’s performance in the group stage of the Super-12 was impressive. India had won four out of five matches and qualified for the semi-finals with the maximum eight points. India defeated Pakistan, Bangladesh, Netherlands and Zimbabwe in the Super-12 round. At the same time, India had to face defeat against South Africa. Team India started its campaign with a match against Pakistan. This match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 October and now after a month Virat Kohli has remembered this match. In fact, in the match against Pakistan, Kohli had played an incredible innings and single-handedly won Team India. Remembering this match, Kohli wrote on the social media handle Instagram – 23 October 2022 will always be special in my heart. Such energy has never been felt before in the game of cricket. What a lovely evening it was. Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 82 runs off 53 balls in front of nearly 90,000 spectators in Melbourne and returned to the pavilion only after winning Team India. He also received the Player of the Match award for this special innings. Also became the Player of the Month.
Pakistan batted first after losing the toss in that match. The team scored 159 runs losing eight wickets in 20 overs. Iftikhar Ahmed scored 51 off 34 balls. At the same time, Shan Masood played an unbeaten inning of 52 runs in 42 balls. Mohammad Rizwan could score four runs, while Babar Azam could not even open the account. Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya took three wickets each. In reply the Indian batting order had faltered. KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma could score four runs each. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav could score 15 and Akshar Patel two runs. After this, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya shared a 113-run partnership. Hardik was dismissed after scoring 40 runs. Whereas, Kohli stayed till the end. He hit Haris Rauf for a straight six on the fifth ball of the 19th over. It is also being called the shot of the tournament. In the last over, 16 runs were needed to win, which India scored on the basis of Kohli-Ashwin. Kohli hit six fours and four sixes in his innings and had a strike rate of 154.72 during this period.