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Host Pakistan will look to revive its ICC Champions Trophy 2025 marketing campaign when it takes on archrival India on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Sunday.
Coming into the competition after a 60-run reverse by the hands of New Zealand, the Mohammad Rizwan-led aspect will draw inspiration from the its earlier Champions Trophy assembly towards India.
The 2 groups final met within the last of the earlier version of the event, in 2017, the place Pakistan prevailed by a whopping 180 runs to clinch its maiden title.
India gained the toss and inserted Pakistan in. However issues went out of its management when opening batter Fakhar Zaman, on three runs, was caught off a no-ball in Jasprit Bumrah’s over.
Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman holds the trophy as he celebrates after profitable the ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
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Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman holds the trophy as he celebrates after profitable the ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
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Zaman made the many of the life granted to him and added 129 runs for the primary wicket with Azhar Ali. He went onto hit his maiden worldwide hundred—114 off 106 deliveries—earlier than Hardik Pandya obtained him out.
Babar Azam’s 52-ball 46 mixed arrange Pakistan for a robust end. Mohammed Hafiz ensured that Pakistan posted a mammoth 338 runs with an unbeaten 57 off 37 balls.
India’s response was ravaged by a menacing opening burst from Mohammad Amir. He accounted for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli inside his first two overs earlier than dismissing the in-form Shikhar Dhawan.
India’s veteran pairing of Yuvraj Singh and M.S. Dhoni was handed the duty to place its aspect again on monitor from a precarious trying 33/3. They added solely 19 runs earlier than Shadab Khan pinned the southpaw in entrance. Dhoni departed three deliveries later and when Shadab had his second wicket in Kedar Jadhav, India was staring down the barrel at 72/6.
Pakistan celebrates the wicket of Hardik Pandya.
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Pakistan celebrates the wicket of Hardik Pandya.
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Pandya’s 43-ball 76 shaped the spine of his 80-run partnership with Ravindra Jadeja that introduced semblance of a struggle. However India’s final remnants of hope have been extinguished when a mix-up between the wickets value Pandya his wicket.
Pandya fell with India’s rating at 152 and the tail may add merely six extra, as India fell to its archrival in an ICC occasion for the primary time in eight years. For Sarfaraz Ahmed’s Pakistan, it was the primary ICC title in eight years.
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