“India deserved to win the 2024 T20 World Cup”: Australian cricket writers Sam Perry and Ian Higgins

The Indian cricket team ended its 17-year T20 World Cup trophy drought with a sensational victory over South Africa in the final in Barbados a month ago. India won the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2007 but failed to repeat the feat until Rohit Sharma and co. lived up to expectations. During an interaction with NDTV, Australian cricket writers Sam Perry and Ian Higgins, who are also the creators of ‘The Grade Cricketer Podcast’, said that India deserved to win the tournament.

“India deserved to win the T20 World Cup because they played the best cricket. We are fortunate to cover the IPL and have some in-depth knowledge of the Indian players and the way Indian cricket works. overcome many of the difficulties he faced in previous World Cups to win the tournament,” said Sam Perry.

Talking about how the duo came up with the idea of ​​starting ‘The Grade Cricketer Podcast’, Sam said: “We’re very lucky, Ian Higgins and I both played cricket in Australia, which is a level below state cricket. We had dreams of being players. professionals and we weren’t good enough, but having played for so long, we gained a lot of experience that we didn’t think was reflected in the cricket media. So we created a Twitter account and wrote about our experiences. cricketer or the cricket club through different mediums, one of them was the podcast and people seem to enjoy that the difficult experiences that you have playing cricket but that are unspoken. We are lucky to gather the audience that allows us. keep doing this.