Year Ender 2024: From World Cup to shameful records… know how this year was for Indian cricket

Sports Desk: The year 2024 was fine for the Indian cricket team. Indian team won the ICC T20 World Cup trophy. But after that the Indian team had to face a clean sweep at the hands of New Zealand in India itself. This year was a year of change for Indian cricket. From here, a period of change has started in Indian cricket. It started with the retirement of many players. Many players may retire in the coming year.

Indian team won the T20 World Cup trophy

The Indian cricket team healed the wounds of the fans by winning the ICC trophy. After many years, the Indian team has been successful in winning the trophy in ICC tournaments. Most of the time the Indian team was eliminated in the knockout round itself. But the team led by Rohit Sharma performed brilliantly from beginning to end in the T20 World Cup played in America and West Indies and won the trophy.

Three players retired after World Cup victory

After winning the trophy, three main players of Team India announced their retirement. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja retired from this format. Kohli played an inning of 76 runs in his last T20 International match and was also the man of the match. With this, the tenure of Indian team head coach Rahul Dravid also ended.

Suryakumar Yadav became captain

After Rohit's retirement, it seemed that Hardik Pandya would captain India in the T20 format. But BCCI gave preference to Suryakumar Yadav instead of Hardik Pandya. Gautam Gambhir, who took over as head coach in place of Dravid, had a different thinking as he played an important role in making Suryakumar, India's best batsman in T20, the captain. In India's T20 series tour to South Africa, Tilak Verma and Sanju Samson showed their talent in batting while Varun Chakraborty showed his talent in bowling.

Defeated New Zealand at home

The Indian team won the test series against Bangladesh 2-0. But New Zealand spoiled the plans of the Indian team. New Zealand came to India and went back after defeating the Indian team 3-0. With this, a shameful record was also added to the Indian team. After this, discussions started regarding the future of some senior players and the recent sudden retirement of Ravichandran Ashwin is also being considered as a result of this.

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Jai Shah becomes chairman of ICC

At the end of this year, Jay Shah resigned from the post of BCCI and became the new chairman of ICC. Due to which India's dominance is now visible in world cricket. He is the fifth Indian to hold this post after Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar, N Srinivasan and Shashank Manohar. Shah immediately made his presence felt by dispelling the clouds of danger hanging over the Champions Trophy being hosted by Pakistan.

India will play in Dubai against Champions Trophy

India does not need to tour Pakistan for the Champions Trophy and will play its matches in Dubai. Similarly, Pakistan will play its matches of the tournament to be held in India at a neutral venue. This year, the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in which Rishabh Pant (Rs 27 crore) and Shreyas Iyer (Rs 26.75 crore) were the most expensive players.

Great comeback of women's cricket team at the end of the year

If we talk about the performance of the Indian women's team, it was eliminated early in the T20 World Cup, but it compensated to some extent by defeating West Indies in the home T20 series recently. This is the first time in the last five years that the Indian team won the home series. With this, the Indian women's team has also won the ODI series.