Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan came up with heaps of praise for the Indian team after they clean swept New Zealand 3-0 to come back to winning ways after witnessing an early exit from the T20 World Cup 2021 in the UAE. India went into the third and final encounter in Kolkata after victories in Jaipur and Ranchi, and under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the men in blue kept on maintaining the winning streak, as they thumped New Zealand by 73 runs.
With the effort, India became the only country to affect a clean sweep against New Zealand both home and away, having previously won 5-0 under Virat Kohli in early 2020 in Kiwi’s den.
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Tweeting about the series win, Amitabh Bachchan wrote: “Champions… INDIA! Gir jaana, haar jaana, yudh ke maidaan mein , haan maana. Dhvaj phairana , bal par apne , phir khade ho jaana, ye jaana…ghudasavaar ve, jo gir kar, phir savaar ho jaate hain, phir gaya paani unpar, jo maarte the unpar ashleel taana.”
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'गिर जाना, हार जाना, युध के मैदान में , हाँ माना
ध्वज फैहरना , बल पर अपने , फिर खड़े हो जाना, ये जाना
घुड़सवार वे, जो गिर कर, फिर सवार हो जाते हैं,
फिर गया पानी उनपर, जो मारते थे उनपर अश्लील ताना ' ~ ab pic.twitter.com/aeMTlJcG7Z— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 21, 2021
In the final game, India managed to reach the score of 184/7 on the back of Rohit Sharma’s quick-fire half-century (56 off 31) and brisk cameos of Harshal Patel (18 off 12) Deepak Chahar (21 off 8) before Axar Patel’s Player of the Match 3/9 and Harshal’s 2/26 helped them to a comfortable win. Patel managed to take three wickets in the powerplay itself to dent New Zealand, who never recovered and were dismissed eventually for 111 in 17.2 overs.
Talking about the same during a pots-match chat with Harshal Patel, Axar said, “It was an exceptional feeling. I mean, I didn’t expect the debut match to go this well because all my debuts before today have never been this good. But I executed my skills well and the result was also in our favour and we ended up winning the game. I don’t know, we haven’t decided it but it seems like the Player of the Match will stay between us Patels!”
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He further elaborated, “The change for me has mainly been in the mindset. I had all these skills before as well. The mindset change in the last two years has got me the results. And whatever I did in the IPL, I had decided to carry the same mindset in this series. Those things are working for me and I am very happy about it.”
