In the questions below the sentences have been given in Direct/Indirect…

Concept

When converting reported (indirect) speech that describes an exclamatory reaction back into direct speech, two things must be restored: (1) the specific interjection matching the emotion named by the reporting clause (for example, joy leads to "Hurrah!", sorrow leads to "Alas!", surprise leads to "What!"), inserted before the quoted sentence; and (2) the original tense of the direct utterance, since indirect speech backshifts tense by one step relative to direct speech — so reconstructing the direct form means shifting the reported tense forward by that same one step (a reported past perfect corresponds to an original present perfect).

Application

1. The reporting clause "exclaimed with joy that" names the emotion joy, so the direct quote must open with the interjection "Hurrah!" and the reporting verb becomes "said,".

2. The reported verb "had won" is past perfect; reversing the one-step backshift gives the original tense present perfect, "has won".

3. Assembling both restorations: He said, "Hurrah! India has won the Sahara Cup."

Cross-check

This matches only the option that pairs the joy-interjection with the present-perfect tense; every other option is missing one or both of these two restorations.

Contrasting the distractors

• “He said, “India has won the Sahara Cup”” restores the tense correctly but supplies no interjection at all, leaving the joyful exclamation unmarked.

• “He said, “India won the Sahara Cup”” drops the interjection and additionally renders the verb in the simple past (“won”) rather than reversing to the present perfect.

• “He said, “How! India will win the Sahara Cup”” uses “How!”, an interjection of surprise or wonder rather than joy, and shifts the action into the future tense instead of restoring the completed-action tense.