Moment Indian cricket fan falls off pole in T20 World Cup celebrations

By Milo Pope

00:21 30 Jun 2024, updated 01:54 30 Jun 2024

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This is the shocking moment an Indian cricket fan falls off a pole during T20 World Cup celebrations in London. 

India beat South Africa on Saturday by seven runs in a heart-stopping final to win the Twenty20 World Cup at the Kensington Oval. 

Across London, Indian cricket fans took to the streets to share their joy at their nation’s historic win.

However, during the celebrations, one fan can be seen falling from a flag pole outside Queensbury tube station as he tries to tie a flag to the top of it. 

Elsewhere, a man was detained by police in Ealing Road as what was meant to be a day of jubilance turned sour.

Subsequent footage from after the fall showed the fan with cuts and bruises on his face, but he appeared to be stable and able to walk.

India have lifted their first World Cup in 13 years after a choke for the ages from South Africa at Bridgetown.

Needing an apparently unloseable 26 off four overs with six wickets in hand, with Heinrich Klaasen on the march, they somehow collapsed to a seven-run defeat. 

The result left India’s fans at Kensington Oval delirious, and the South African players incredulous, with David Miller – caught on the boundary in the last over – in tears.

The result was a triumph for India’s seamers, who preyed on the South Africans’ long history of bottling the big games. 

After the outstanding Jasprit Bumrah had conceded only four singles in the 16th over, Hardik Pandya had Klaasen – who had just completed a 23-ball half-century – edging a big drive from the first delivery of the 17th.

That over, too, cost only four, before Bumrah returned to bowl Marco Jansen in the 18th, and give away just two singles. Evidence that South Africa had stopped thinking clearly came when tailender Keshav Maharaj took a single off the last ball of the over, with the big-hitting Miller waiting to pounce at the other end.

When Arshdeep Singh’s 19th cost just four, South Africa needed 16 off the last, only for Miller to be brilliantly on the long-off boundary by Suryakumar Yadav off Pandya. As rain began to fall, their tail couldn’t come close.