Coming out to bat and chase a big total of 324 in 48 overs, Pakistan had their target revised to 289 in 41 overs due to another rain interruption.
Rohit Sharma (91), Shikhar Dhawan (68), Yuvraj Singh (53), Virat Kohli (81*) and Hardik Pandya (20*) all tore apart the Pakistani bowling and didn't give them any chance to bounce back into the game.
"But we didn't set tone upfront". "Fakar Zaman will open with Azhar Ali", he said, "We had a different combination when I scored that century at Lord's".
"With the bat and the ball we were right up there, 9 out of 10. And it's a reality check of where we are in our one-day cricket at the moment", ESPNcricinfo quoted Arthur as saying. Now if you see, we have Babar at three, (Mohammad) Hafeez bhai at four and Shoaib (Malik) bhai at five.
Afridi also came hard on Pakistan's shoddy fielding effort. Initially, the openers gave us a good start. To be frank, India will be unstoppable if they continue to play this brand of cricket.
"I could not get the big ones because it was tricky", the 28-year-old said of the sluggish phase.
"We had a poor game today".
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But he insisted he was not too concerned because he knew illness and injury had badly affected Murray's training. He hasn't gone close to losing another set, and in particular, the third set against Del Potro was impressive.
India began the defence of their International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy title with a comfortable victory over Pakistan at Edgbaston in Birmingham after the match went ahead amid heightened security following a terrorist attack in London last night. He needs to take the confidence from this performance and run with it, all the way to the final.
This time however, India were much more convincing, as they completely dominated Pakistan.
"Let's get something straight first off. Wahab Riaz was fully fit". I selected him. I selected him because I wanted him to perform a role.
The bowlers then stepped up and bundled out Pakistan for a paltry 164 from 33.4 overs with Umesh Yadav (3/30) being the pick of the bowlers.
"The only thing I can think is the magnitude of the situation got to them", said Arthur, a former coach of both South Africa and Australia.
"Everything was under control after 40 overs, but we lost the plot in the last eight". A miserable match for Wahab, flayed by India's batsmen for a hugely expensive 87 runs in 8.4 overs, ended when he fell in his delivery stride and sustained an injury that saw him leave the field.
India had started off steadily, but constant rain delays kept halting their momentum, at times when they were just starting to up the ante.
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