Sarfraz will pleased with the performances of the likes of Fakhar Zaman and Hasan Ali, who despite a lack of experience delivered on the big stage. This was India's seventh wicket for 152 runs.
Fellow opener Azhar survived run out chances on 15 and 29.They made India pay for the let-off and misses.
Big sport can at times be a little overwhelming in its excitements, its relentlessly trumpeted celebrity riches. Azhar smashed 59 runs off 71 balls, including six 4s and a six, before he got run out in the 22nd over of Ravichandran Ashwin.
The cricket rivalry between the neighboring countries of Pakistan and India is traditionally matched in intensity only by that between England and Australia, and the match had been awaited with eager anticipation by fans from both sides.
No matter. Next ball Kohli, working across the line, flapped a leading edge to point. But just when it seemed good for the Pakistan team, Malik played a loose short off pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar and gifted his wicket.
A little over an hour later the game was all but done.
Pandya raced to his half-century in 32 balls, with the third of three successive sixes in one over from Shadab Khan - but after pressing on to a new career-best, with four fours and six maximums, he was run out in a hapless mix-up with Ravindra Jadeja which encapsulated India's miserable day. Dhawan tried to hit a ball which was outside the off stump and ended up giving away an easy catch to wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed.
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It was simply that kind of day, a fevered, good-natured meeting of two great cricketing neighbours, framed around the massed South Asian diaspora in south London.
"Winning this trophy apart, I am celebrating my political sentiment as well", Amir, who gave only his first name, told AFP outside the grand mosque in Srinagar's old town of Nowhatta. They were good-naturedly shooed out.
India were then routed for 158 in the 31st over. He looked a little over-excited here, galloping in furiously, leaping up into that disco star-jump gather and winging down a selection of wides and half-volleys.
You can check out all the best images from the final in the gallery above. He skipped out to the spinners or swayed deep in his crease, every now and then producing a violent swat-drive straight down the ground, left elbow not so much high as raking the ground. They beat South Africa, Sri Lanka and host England to reach their first Trophy final, where only they believed they could end a seven-match, six-year losing streak to India in global tournaments.
All top nations refuse to play in Pakistan where security is at a premium. As Sarfraz took the final catch to seal the tournament there was another lovely tableau, the entire victorious team romping in a fittingly unchoreographed dance of triumph. Nothing in Pakistan cricket lasts a lifetime, nothing in Pakistan cricket comes easy.
Unsurprisingly in this case.
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