Fakhar Jaman and Babar Azam
India vs Pakistan champions trophy 2025: Whenever there is a competition between India and Pakistan, the fans of both countries are very excited. Because cricket is popular among both countries. Now in the upcoming Champions Trophy, the match between India and Pakistan will be played on the 23rd of Dubai. Earlier, the 2017 final was played between the two teams in the Champions Trophy. Pakistan then defeated the Indian team by 180 runs. Since then, there have been many changes in the Pakistani team and only two players of the Pakistani playing XI, who played the 2017 final against India, are part of the Pakistani squad this time too. These include the names of Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman.
Fakhar Zaman scored a century
In the final of the Champions Trophy 2017, Fakhar Zaman proved to be the biggest hero for the Pakistani team and scored 114 runs in 106 balls, including 12 fours and three sixes. It was because of him that the Pakistani team was successful in winning the match. Fakhar received the Player of the Match award for a brilliant innings. Apart from him, Babar Azam also presented a good batting sample in the final. Babur then scored 46 runs in 52 balls, including four fours. Due to these players, the Pakistani team was successful in scoring 338 runs.
Indian batsman was a flop
After this, the batsmen of the Indian team were badly flopped, which included batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan. Hardik Pandya definitely played a strong innings, but he could not win the team. He scored 76 runs in 43 balls, including four fours and 6 sixes. The entire Indian team was reduced to just 158 runs. In this way, Pakistan defeated India to win the first cross Champions Trophy.
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