Overview
- India posted 255/5, the highest total in a T20 World Cup final, before bowling New Zealand out for 159 at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
- Sanju Samson (89), Abhishek Sharma (52) and Ishan Kishan (54) set up the victory with a blistering top-order surge.
- Jasprit Bumrah's career-best T20I figures of 4/15 included 12 dot balls and closed out New Zealand's chase with ruthless control.
- Bumrah finished the tournament with 14 wickets to share the lead with Varun Chakravarthy and surpassed Lasith Malinga to reach 40 career T20 World Cup wickets.
- India became the first team to win successive T20 World Cups and the first host nation to lift the trophy, while Bumrah became the first pacer to take a four-wicket haul in a tournament knockout.