Champions: Zaman, Amir and Pakistan. IND V PAK, CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2017, FINAL
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A focused, with great on line and length bowling from Mohammad Amir delivered India to a shocking 180-run defeat at The Oval on Sunday as Pakistan succeeded to collect their maiden ICC Champions Trophy title with a lot to spare. [Scorecard]
Chasing Pakistan’s second highest total 338 for 4, India went down due to lost three in-form batsmen earlier just within the first 9 overs.
Hasan Ali new young new bowler took three wickets for 19 to shine off the Indian tail. Pakistan achieved this victory with 117 balls to spare.
Award winners: Golden ball: Hasan Ali (13 wickets at 13.69) Player of the Tournament: Hasan Ali Golden Bat: Shikhar Dhawan (338 runs at 67.60)
Hardik ‘fantastic ball rounder’ Pandya’s 43-ball 76 was the only good performance from India’s batting, however his run out gave Pakistan a simple passage to victory.
Mohammad Amir, a half fit player reported fit just at the beginning of the final. He winded up India top order with his clever seam and line and length.
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The first three wickets Muhammad Amir took immediately with his great bowling. He plumbed Rohit Sharma in front of wicket, got behinf Dhawan and out Kohli two times.
Kohli was not lucky enough to leverage his batting after drop catch from Azhar Ali. Kohli lectured to his team in whole event to stay cool and calm and on the Day of Judgment, he himself loses his hope even getting a life line by Azhar Ali in earlier ball.
It was superb bowling from Muhammad Amir that he didn’t allow Kohli to play safe short even a catch was dropped already by Azhar Ali.
After Kohli’s wicket, Amir took Dhawan wicket and set the direction for Pakistani bowlers. They took one wicket after one and end the Indian inning at 158.
The only one Indian player showed resistant against opponent and that was Pandya. Hardik Pandya scored blasting 76 runs on just 43 balls with 4 fours and 6 sixes. His strike rate was nearly double, 176.74.
So the conclusion is Pakistan is now Champion of ICC Champion Trophy 2017. It was massive by the 8th rank team against top class team.
Experts say that this change is due to induction of young players. Pakistan is the only team who allowed 3 players to debut in important matches of ICC Champion Trophy 2017.
Pakistan team also rewarded 6th rank for the great victory in the ICC Champions Trophy final and also booked their seat in the ICC World Cup 2019 without playing qualifying round.