![]() ![]() ![]() They reduced England to 45/3 within the powerplay and then had pulled the equation to 41 off 29 balls, dropping the ball once Shaheen Shah Afridi pulled out of the attack after bowling the first delivery of the 16th over. But it isn’t over till Pakistan say it is. Babar Azam and Shan Masood tried to boost the innings but Pakistan batters fumbled, failing to read the wily bowling of left-arm seamer Sam Curran and leg-spinner Adil Rashid who shared five wickets for 34 runs. It was still overcast and England chose to bowl, restricting Pakistan to 137/8 with the same template that had shut out India’s batting in the semi-final on Thursday. The forecast luckily proved wrong as it rained everywhere but the MCG. ![]() He braved everything that came at him to score an unbeaten 52, hitting the winning run and setting off on a victory lap. Pakistan were all heart in their fight to defend 137 but could not dislodge Stokes. It was found at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as England swept to victory over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday, becoming the standard-bearer in white-ball cricket. The final piece was still missing though. Three years later, the greatest one-dayer at Lord’s finally brought home the Cup, the outcome of a white-ball revolution that began after the 2015 ODI World Cup debacle Down Under. The first chapter of this story began in Kolkata, on Apwhen Ben Stokes’s despair was drowned in the din of Eden Gardens and the roar of Carlos Brathwaite in the aftermath of four consecutive sixes. ![]()
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