'T20 kings': nation celebrates Indian romp to World Cup glory

The co‑hosts and pre‑tournament favourites swept aside New Zealand by 96 runs in Sunday's final in front of 86,000 spectators at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium. India became the first team to lift the trophy on home soil, the first to retain it and are now the most successful side in the history of the global showpiece. Indian newspapers praised Suryakumar Yadav's men for their dominant performance, with the mass-circulation Times of India saying they had rewritten history in "bold strokes".