Shashi Tharoor Exclusive: This South African Team Was Exception in T20 World Cup, Why?| Watch Now

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In this special edition of Pitch Battle, we're joined by the esteemed Congress MP and cricket enthusiast, Shashi Tharoor. Mr. Tharoor shared his thoughts on India's recent ICC triumph, a victory that came after a decade-long wait.

Tharoor weighed in on potential leadership changes. He expressed his preference for Jasprit Bumrah as the next T20 captain, citing his skill and temperament. However, he also acknowledged that South African team fought well and it was fair play game rather than being completely one sided.

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00:00till the last over any outcome is possible and even two two balls from the end people said well

00:05it could still be a super over if they hit two fours on the last two balls it'll be super over

00:10so all of that was going on was quite incredible but it's quite unexpected the way south africans

00:15you know just gave it away on a batter to india i mean uh we're lucky we won this uh uh in 2007

00:22also on a similar note where pakistan gifted us uh that scoop shot from uh the pakistani batter

00:30yesterday also 30 runs from 30 odd balls and and the way south africans gave it away uh your

00:37thoughts on that i don't think you're being fair at all i don't think you're being fair

00:41i think that i think i think the south africans played outstandingly they played a really really

00:46good game people you know make runs by taking away by playing shots and they also get out playing

00:52shots so i mean it so happens that our rollers hold well enough and our fielders caught well

00:58enough come on i don't see anything that we should be ashamed of at all uh it's not that

01:03they gave it away i think they played exceptionally well i think they were right on top of the game

01:08right up to over number 16 uh and it's only after that that it began slipping away from them

01:15and even then right till the very end they were in with a chance i mean it's not that they are

01:20uh there are any slouches i mean except uh possibly for their number 11 shamsi all the

01:26others can wield a long handle i've seen people like rabada and nokia hitting sixes it's not

01:31impossible that they could have won even with a tail batting um so i think i think it was a

01:36very good performance for south africa we should give them full credit i think it's

01:40very unfair to accuse them of choking yet again and so on because um they didn't choke i think

01:46i think they played well we played well and in the crucial overs towards the end of the match

01:52we played better absolutely we did but uh i mean you know that that surya kumar catch you talked

01:58about it's such a regular phenomena when we look at ipl games i i mean we've seen it so many

02:06cricketers from different countries playing it for different franchisee taking such catches

02:11um and ipl has also contributed you know earlier we used to talk about how we used to lose t20

02:16world cup right after ipl uh and everyone used to blame ipl because of over uh dose of cricket

02:23but what what will you tell them right now no i think i think obviously it helped india that

02:29our players were so fresh from the ipl and indeed other players who had played in the ipl like

02:34travis ed also showed the advantages of the ipl because they came into the world cup raring to go

02:41and did very well uh same story these are people who played in the ipl i think that that argument

02:48can now be laid to rest in many ways the ipl is extremely good preparation for a t20 world cup

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Shashi Tharoor Exclusive: This South African Team Was Exception in T20 World Cup, Why?| Watch Now

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