Indian cricket team defeated South Africa in the Finals of the T20 World Cup 2024 by 7 runs to end their 11-year-long trophy drought. The star batter Virat Kohli once again rose to the occasion and played a match-winning knock that led his team to a stunning win. The legendary player's Instagram post about the T20 World Cup win also shattered many records.
Virat Kohli shatters many Instagram record
Indian batting maestro's Instagram post about the Indian cricket team's win in the T20 World Cup Final got more than 20 million likes after which they shattered many records. He captioned the post by writing "Couldn’t have dreamt of a better day than this. God is great and I bow my head in gratitude. We finally did it."
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This post made Virat Kohli the first Indian, first Asian athlete, 2nd Asian, and 5th athlete in the world with 20 million likes on a single Instagram post. The cricketing icon is also the most followed Indian on Instagram and the third most famous athlete in the world. His popularity is easily visible in the number of followers he has. As for now, the Virat has more than 270 million Instagram followers.
Virat retire from T20Is
Virat Kohli announced his retirement from the shortest format of the game in International cricket. However, he would continue to play T20 cricket in the Indian Premier League. Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja are the other two big names to have retired from T20Is.
"This was my last T20 World Cup, this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel like you can't get a run and this happens, God is great. Just the occasion, now or never kind of situation. This was my last T20 game playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup. Wanted to Yes I have, this was an open secret. Not something that I wasn't going to announce even if we had lost. Time for the next generation to take the T20 game forward. It's been a long wait for us, waiting to win an ICC tournament. You look at someone like Rohit, he's played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth. He deserves it. It's been difficult to hold things (emotions) back and I think it's going to sink in later. It's an amazing day and I'm thankful," said Virat Kohli in the post-match presentation.
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