Pakistan Cricket Team, which had been carrying low expectations and miraculously entered the finals, has beaten its arch-rival India in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 on Sunday in The Oval stadium in Kennington, London.
India has won the toss and selected to field thus handing over batting to Pakistan. The team Pakistan has showed a great batting display and scored 338 in 50 overs for the loss of four wickets. Whereas India was all out for 158 in 30.3 overs thus making it a dark day in the history of Indian cricket. Pakistan has won on India by a margin of 180 runs.
In chasing the huge target, India couldn’t show any sort of competence as it lost its first wicket (Rohit Sharma) at zero. Skipper Virat Kohli followed the suit. Even as he got a lifeline in the slip, Kohli was catch out in the very next ball. Although Yuvraj and Dhoni tried to resurrect the match, Yuvi was out unfortunately for a LBW that was declared out in the review. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played a careless shot and given catch in the leg side. Despite losing major wickets quickly, Hardik Pandya played a spectacular innings. He has scored fastest half century in the Champions Trophy and at a point hopes of Indian cricket fans were revived by Pandya-Jadeja combine as the run-rate was almost back at 6.
However, Pandya was run-out by small miscommunication by Jadeja and India paid a huge price as in no time, it lost all its remaining wickets. Pandya scored 76 out of 43 balls including 4 fours and 6 sixes making the match interesting at one point.
Even bowling wise, Indian bowling was pretty week. Except Bhuvaneshwar, none of the bowlers couldn’t restrict Pakistan batsmen. In addition to it, poor bowling and too many extras – wides, no balls – have hampered India’s chances of victory. Fakar Zaman made 114 runs, Azhar Ali scored 59, Hafeez scored 57 (not out) and Babar made 46 runs.
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