India were crowned Twenty20 World Cup champions after a seven-run victory over South Africa in a heart-stopping final at the Kensington Oval on Saturday.

Electing to bat on a dry surface, 2007 champions India overcame a top-order meltdown to post a competitive 176-7, the highest total in a T20 World Cup final.

Virat Kohli (76) made his first 50 of this World Cup and Axar Patel smashed 47 to power India to a healthy score.

The Proteas also suffered an early collapse but Quinton de Kock (39) and Tristan Stubbs (31) put their chase back on track.

Heinrich Klaasen (52) counter-attacked in spectacular fashion but India’s impeccable death-overs bowling restricted South Africa to 169-8.

The trophy ended India’s 11-year wait for a global title and most of the players were in tears after the victory, while their South African counterparts looked desolate.

After Klaasen plundered 24 runs from Axar’s final over, South Africa looked to be cruising to victory, needing 30 runs from 30 balls with six wickets in hand.

Bumrah returned to stop the run flow, however, and Hardik Pandya dismissed Klaasen to change the momentum.

With David Miller in the middle South Africa still looked well capable of scoring 20 runs from the last 12 balls.

But Arshdeep Singh conceded only four runs in the penultimate over and Pandya gave away only eight in the final one to seal an emotional victory

The finalists’ squads

India

Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed. Siraj.

South Africa

Aiden Markram (c), Ottniel Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Quinton de Kock, Bjorn Fortuin, Reeza Hendricks, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs.

Full results and final fixture for the T20 World Cup 2024

(All times UK time)

Results

Sunday, June 2
USA beat Canada by seven wickets (Dallas)
West Indies beat Papua New Guinea by five wickets (Guyana)

Monday, June 3
Namibia tied with Oman but won via a Super Over (Barbados)
South Africa beat Sri Lanka by six wickets (New York)

Tuesday, June 4
Afghanistan beat Uganda by 125 runs (Guyana)
England v Scotland, match abandoned, one point each (Barbados)
Netherlands beat Nepal by six wickets (Dallas)

Wednesday, June 5 
India beat Ireland by eight wickets (New York)

Thursday, June 6
Uganda beat Papua New Guinea by three wickets (Guyana) 
Australia beat Oman by 39 runs (Barbados)
USA v Pakistan – Match tied (USA win the super over) –  (Dallas)
Scotland beat Namibia by five wickets (Barbados)

Friday, June 7 
Canada beat Ireland by 12 runs (New York)

Saturday, June 8
Afghanistan beat New Zealand by 84 runs (Guyana)
Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by two wickets (Dallas)
South Africa beat Netherlands by four wickets (New York)
Australia beat England by 36 runs (Barbados)

Sunday, June 9
West Indies beat Uganda by 134 runs (Guyana)
India beat Pakistan by six runs (New York)
Scotland beat Oman by seven wickets (Antigua)

Monday, June 10
South Africa beat Bangladesh by four runs (New York)

Tuesday, June 11
Pakistan beat Canada by seven wickets (New York)

Wednesday, June 12
Sri Lanka v Nepal, match abandoned without a ball bowled (Florida)
Australia beat Namibia by nine wickets (Antigua)
India beat USA by seven wickets (New York)

Thursday, June 13
West Indies beat New Zealand by 13 runs (Trinidad)
Bangladesh beat Netherlands by 25 runs (St Vincent)
England beat Oman by eight wickets (Antigua)

Friday, June 14
Afghanistan beat Papua New Guinea by seven wickets (Trinidad)
USA v Ireland, match abandoned, one point each (Florida)

Saturday, June 15
South Africa beat Nepal by one run (St Vincent)
New Zealand beat Uganda by nine wickets (Trinidad)
India v Canada, match abandoned, one point each (Florida)
England beat Namibia by 41 runs (DLS) (Antigua)

Sunday, June 16
Australia beat Scotland by five wickets (St Lucia)
Pakistan beat Ireland by three wickets (Florida)

Monday, June 17 
Bangladesh beat Nepal by 21 runs (St Vincent) 
Sri Lanka beat Netherlands by 21 runs (St Lucia)
New Zealand beat Papua New Guinea by seven wickets (Trinidad)

Tuesday, June 18
West Indies beat Afghanistan by 104 runs (St Lucia)

Wednesday, June 19
South Africa beat USA by 18 runs (Antigua)

Thursday, June 20
England beat West Indies by 8 wickets (St Lucia)
India beat Afghanistan by 47 runs (Barbados)

Friday, June 21
Australia beat Bangladesh by 28 runs (DLS method) (Antigua)
South Africa beat England by seven runs (St Lucia)

Saturday, June 22
West Indies beat USA by nine wickets (Barbados)
India beat Bangladesh by 50 runs (Antigua)

Sunday, June 23
Afghanistan beat Australia by 21 runs (St Vincent)
England beat US by 10 wickets USA (Barbados)

Monday, June 24
South Africa beat West Indies by three wickets – DLS method (Antigua)
India beat Australia by 24 runs (St Lucia)

Tuesday, June 25
Afghanistan beat Bangladesh by eight runs (St Vincent)

Knock-out rounds

Thursday, June 27
South Africa beat Afghanistan by nine wickets (Trinidad)
India beat England by 68 runs (Guyana)

Saturday, June 29
India beat South Africa by seven runs

Who are the previous winners?

2007 India
2009 Pakistan
2010 England
2012 West Indies
2014 Sri Lanka
2016 West Indies
2021 Australia
2022 England