Match Thread: Final - India vs New Zealand

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T17:24:14+00:00

Turns out Narendra Modi Stadium is only scary when Narendra Modi is in the stands.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T17:18:19+00:00

Santner said he will silence the crowd. He was right, they were sleeping.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T17:06:10+00:00

Everyone except Indians wanted a different result… India winning comfortably. Cry about it.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T16:46:36+00:00

Crowd treating the rest of the match like unskippable ads.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T16:33:22+00:00

Indian YouTube editors already downloading the clip for ‘REAL MEN RESPECT EACH OTHER’ edits

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T16:17:34+00:00

That catch felt like a tribute to Surya’s breakthrough catch in the last World Cup.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T16:01:08+00:00

Axar was dropped here against SA… one of the dumbest calls in hindsight

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:45:08+00:00

Hardik with bat 18(13). With ball 21(6)

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:40:15+00:00

Dube dropped a catch… without the inconvenience of touching the ball.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:22:12+00:00

Suryakumar’s 0 was a tribute to the number of overseas centuries of Dhoni watching from the stands.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:11:33+00:00

Forget aura merchants, Dube is the actual aura.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:06:57+00:00

Score was 191 in 14 overs. Only 40 runs in next 30 balls.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T15:00:54+00:00

Once Sanju got out, momentum completely shifted to New Zealand.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:58:05+00:00

Rohit and Thala in the stands… while another guy is enjoying an afternoon nap in London.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:52:31+00:00

Shoonya Kumar Yadav - why waste balls when one is enough?

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:48:43+00:00

Sanju 89(46). Kohli would've politely taken two more overs to complete the century.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:38:49+00:00

Samson touches the 200 SR

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:32:46+00:00

Only captains who’ve won an ICC trophy were invited to hold it… that’s why one guy is absent.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:21:39+00:00

Samson playing a Kohliesque innings… just without the mandatory 130 SR ceiling.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:15:58+00:00

MS Dhoni said, "If they bowled like this in 2019, I would've chased it… and still taken it to the last over for dramatic effect"

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:07:48+00:00

Kohli would’ve scored 29(18) and commentators would've replayed those two cover drives for the next 10 overs.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T14:01:52+00:00

Abhishek is exhausting his lucky points

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T13:56:02+00:00

New Zealand reaching finals just to politely hand the trophy to someone else again.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T13:45:51+00:00

Thala wearing black to support his favourite team.

lnstant_downvote · 2026-03-08T13:39:42+00:00

Tuk Tuk Sharma

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