The right-arm medium pacer got the important wickets of Jonny Bairstow (43), Eoin Morgan (33) and Ben Stokes (34) to bring his team at the top against favourites England.
He added: "One of the things about knockout cricket is that you have to adapt to conditions". "Coming from Edgbaston which was a good wicket to a used wicket, we didn't adapt very well".
Pakistan bowled and fielded tightly to restrict the sluggish hosts who failed to master a lifeless wicket and collapsed from 128 for two in bright and sunny conditions which normally favour batsmen.
The 44-year-old said their bowlers will hold the key but according him the biggest "threat" will be Indian opener Rohit Sharma whose 137 in their 2015 World Cup quarterfinal win is "still fresh" in his mind.
"I don't think there was any home advantage". "We knew that we were going to play on a used wicket at some stage in this tournament, and we found out the other day that today was going to be on a used wicket".
Kohli said India would field the same team that pulled off a comprehensive eight-wicket win over South Africa in their last match, meaning spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will keep his place at the expense of pace bowler Umesh Yadav.
Both Morgan and Stokes fell victim to Hassan, and the failure of the lower order meant England posted one of their worst totals in the recent past.
"It's the way the tournament is".
Q. Sarfraz, like, you lost the first match to India, and now you're in the final.
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Young offie Mosaddek Hossain leads Bangladesh's wicket tally this ICC Champions Trophy with just three. You would have thought the team winning the toss would be looking to bat first in Cardiff, and I am pretty sure Eoin Morgan would have batted first had he won the coin-toss.
"And in that game it looked like we were playing at home".
"We played very well".
"But obviously, given the conditions, it didn't allow us to do that ... it was quite tough". We didn't adjust and 200 isn't competitive.
After a meek and meagre display in their opening match of the tournament against India, Pakistan were labelled "shambolic" and "terrible" by coach Mickey Arthur but have shone ever since.
A good start was needed from the home bowlers for them to stand any real chance of victory, but after Mark Wood's first ball of the innings went down the leg side to be given as a wide, the tone was set.
"Two hundred and fifty or 260 would have been a good score and then it would have been a different run chase". There wasn't too much wrong.
"There's a number of our guys who haven't been at this level before and it is a learning curve". This is gone. "We have two (more group) matches".
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