The South African team had a disappointing end to their T20 World Cup 2024 campaign as they lost the finals to India but it won’t be wrong to say that they played some great cricket and managed to reach the final of the World Cup tournament for the first time in the history of international cricket.
Aiden Markram-led team remained unbeaten till the finals and in the final also, they were going pretty strong until the Indian bowlers made a great comeback and restricted them at 169/8 in 20 overs while chasing the target of 177 runs and India went on to become the T20 World Cup champions for the second time.
David Miller, the Proteas cricketer is an important part of the current team and when he was on the crease in the finals, everyone was feeling that he would make his team win the match. In the last over of the match, the Proteas needed 16 runs to win and David Miller played a beautiful shot for six on the first ball of the over but he was dismissed because of an extraordinary catch which was taken by Suryakumar Yadav.
After the tournament got over, some rumours started doing rounds that David Miller has taken retirement from T20 International cricket but this is not the case and David Miller himself denied such rumours by making a post on his Instagram story. He wrote, “Contrary to some reports, I have NOT retired from T20 international cricket. I will continue to play for the Proteas. The best is yet to come”.
Senior Indian cricketers Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja have taken retirement from the T20 format after the T20 World Cup 2024 and now they will focus on ODIs and test matches.
One thing is for sure that David Miller is here to stay for some more time.
