India wins world twenty cricket championship at Johansberg under the captaincy of mr M S Dhoni with his sensible presence of mind in the final with Pakistan who always had an edge on all department of game.
A scintillating cricket final between India and Pakistan and the gamesmanship of Pakistan always had an edge but the team spirit of India and an excellent bowling by youngsters Irfan,RP SIngh,Sreeshant,Harbhajan and Joginder made India win with exciting nail biting finish with five runs and three balls to spare.
India 157-5 (20 overs) bt Pakistan 152 (19.3 overs) by five runs. India beat Pakistan in the World Twenty20 final by five runs to clinch their first major trophy since 1983. Final played in Johansberg with frenzied and moments tilting in favor of both times brought ultimate success of victory to Indian lads as they held to their nerves and Captain Dhoni made and exemplary effort to keep his boys with best out of them.A star is born and the game format of twenty 20 has got attention of world cricket playing nation find it an extra ordinary attention to show exuberance of youth energy at its best
Gambhir scoring 75 runs 54 balls, Pathan 15 runs in 8 balls,Yuvraj 14 runs in 19 balls and Dhoni score 30 runs in 16 balls . help India reach total score of 167 runs in twenty overs.
Pakistan batted exceedingly well and Nazir reached 33 runs in 14 balls,Younis 24 in 24 balls,Misbah 43 in 38 balls,Arafat 15 in 11 balls,Tanvir scoring 12 in 4 balls and economical bowling by Indians with RP Sing h 3 wickets,Sreesanth taking one,and Joginder finding two wicket and Irfan gaining 3 wickets with man of the match award found themselves as world champions.
Entire stadium roared and gave them standing ovation for the Indians to be inaugural world T 20 cricket champions
President of India ,PM Mr Man Mohan Singh UPA Chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi and LS Speaker congratulated the Indian team on their success and Yuv Raj Singh to receive Rs one Crore from BCCI and Indian teams will get prize money of two million dollars about twelve Crore rupees.

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