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Al Jazeera
Melinda Farrell

Can India win the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 final for Virat ‘King’ Kohli?

Virat Kohli will look to relive the triumphant moments of India's ICC Cricket World Cup win in 2011 when his side meets South Africa in the T20 World Cup 2024 final [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Bridgetown, Barbados – April Fool’s Day had come and gone. On April 2, 2011, a young and chubby star of Indian cricket uttered his most famous words on a glorious night for his country.

The then 22-year-old Virat Kohli carried the country’s most famous cricketing son – Sachin Tendulkar – on his shoulders after India won its second Cricket World Cup title and as the players took in the thunderous applause in a lap of honour at the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

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