{"id":529196,"date":"2026-03-09T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529196\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:03:10","slug":"t20-world-cup-final-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529196\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup final 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian<\/a> cricket legend and now commentator Ravi Shastri had a moment he’d rather forget during the country’s T20 World Cup victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With seven balls left, the required target of 256 was well out of reach for New Zealand<\/a> as Jacob Duffy tried to go big off Abhishek Sharma at 9-159.<\/p>\n

Duffy couldn’t clear the boundary and Tilak Varma took the catch at long-on. Varma threw the ball in celebration but Shastri wasn’t quite aware of the situation.<\/p>\n

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Tilak Varma takes the final catch.\u00a0Amazon Prime<\/p>\n

“Taken in the deep, ninth wicket goes down,” he said rather anti-climactically on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

Shastri then realised his mistake as the celebrations became wilder.<\/p>\n

“And it’s all done actually, it’s India who win the World Cup for the third time,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The first team to win back-to-back World Cups, and the first host to win the T20 World Cup in their home town, it’s a fantastic performance by India.”<\/p>\n

The camera then cut to ICC chairman Jay Shah who shared a handshake and hug with MS Dhoni.<\/p>\n

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MS Dhoni and Jay Shah share a hug.\u00a0Amazon Prime<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Shastri, the simple mistake wasn’t missed by many on social media.<\/p>\n

Broadcaster Glenn Mitchell wrote on X the moment “will haunt” the experienced commentator.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, an incredible brain fade in commentary.” <\/p>\n

Shastri started commentating in the mid 1990s and has been a constant voice in the ears of fans since, broken up only by his stints in coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian cricket legend and now commentator Ravi Shastri had a moment he’d rather forget during the country’s T20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-529196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}