However, a picture that evoked mutual admiration and went viral recently is the one which shows former Indian captain and current wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni carrying the son of Pakistani skipper Safaraz Ahmed in his arms.
India may be ahead against Pakistan in ICC tournaments by an 8-2 margin, but in all ODI tournament finals Pakistan holds a 6-2 edge in the head-to-head battle against India.
"I want to congratulate Pakistan first, they had an awesome tournament".
India handed Pakistan a 124-run defeat in the first group match before Pakistan defeated South Africa, Sri Lanka and then thrashed England in the semifinals to qualify for its first ever Champions Trophy final.
"The top order of Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been remarkable, looking in total control out in the middle".
But after four wins - finishing with a 180-run thumping over their biggest rivals - the underdogs were celebrating winning their first global 50-over title since the 1992 World Cup.
2nd time team batting first won the final of Champions Trophy.
The 27-year-old Fakhar, however, put the setback behind him to complete a 92-ball hundred when he swept star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for his 12th four.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya was the highest scorer among the Indians with 76 runs from 43 balls.
In humid conditions and on flattest of decks, Kohli chose to field first but his bowlers did not do justice to the faith he had shown in them.
Seminoles' meltdown in field helps LSU post 5-4 win in CWS
He would not enter the game until the seventh, with LSU trailing 4-3, after Lange put the leadoff batter aboard on a hit by pitch. With two outs and Duplantis at first base, Holton struck out LSU cleanup hitter Greg Deichmann with a breaking ball in the dirt.
"But he was run out in a awful mix-up", said Kohli, who scored five before becoming the second victim of a fired-up Mohammad Amir.
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed was all praise for his team for staging a dramatic comeback after the loss to India in the league stage. We have practised the same way from the first day we came here.
Yet few would have expected them to dish out a 180-run hammering to India in Sunday's final at The Oval, leaving head coach Arthur to express his amazement at the scale of their revival. Fakhar, out to a nice catch on the run by Jadeja behind square, scored 114 off 106 balls.
"It says a lot about his personality. but what I do know is that Mohammad Amir is a big-match player".
There was a still a seat-of-the-pants element to Pakistan's progress, though, and it was not the greatest surprise when the stand ended with a run-out mix-up in which both batsmen were stranded at the same end. Only this time, he chose to field two spinners - Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.
Hafeez, who smashed an unbeaten 57 off 37 balls to help take Pakistan past thee 300-mark, said the win was for everyone in his homeland.
# Virat Kohli (5) was the second Indian batsman to be dismissed. But early wickets are never good, especially in a chase.
Hafeez played a sensational knock when he hit four boundaries and three sixes in his 37-ball quick-fire innings.
Captain Kohli will also look to use off-break spinner Kedar Jadhav - who took two vital wickets in his previous match against Bangladesh - alongside Hardik Pandya to deceive the Pakistan batsmen.
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