The Memories of Pakistan’s 2017 Champions trophy: Hasan Ali.
Key sentence:
- It was a game in which no one gave Pakistan a chance throughout the tournament, letting them go against India and in the final.
- Imagine, an eighth-placed team went to a mega event as well as beat India in the final, beating the teams in the top three.
- India was certainly better on paper, although their performance was good as well.
In the finals of the 2017 Champions Trophy in England, pace bowler Hasan Ali recalled Pakistan’s popular win against India, showing how thinking about the game always gives him goosebumps.
After grabbing 17 wickets in the tournament, Ali, who is presently nursing a back injury, was adjudicated the Player of the Series as well as topped it off by returning statistics of 3/19 as Pakistan steamrolled India throughout the summit clash by 180 runs.
Hasan Ali on winning of champions cup during the Cricket Bazz interview:
Remembering winning the Champions Cup always gives me goosebumps. You can not explain in words the emotions of that tournament,’ he said that in a Cricket Baaz interview.
Rumman Raees, Faheem Ashraf as well as Fakhar Zaman were several players who made their debuts, although there were a couple of players whose careers had just begun, including Shadab Khan and me. So, that was a young team, and it was managed by a new captain, Sarfraz Bhai.
From that defeat, the team picked itself up inspiringly:
It was a game in which no one gave Pakistan a chance throughout the tournament, letting them go against India and in the final, a team that thrashed them in the fourth game of the tournament with 124 runs (D/L method).
But the team picked up inspiringly on the way to beating South Africa, Sri Lanka, from that loss until taking down hosts England during the first semi-final. In the final, with the team folding for 158, India was outplayed, seeking 339 to win.
Eight ranked teams beat the third-ranked team:
“Imagine, an eighth-place team went to a mega event as well as beat India in the final, beating the teams in the top three. So, it was only by God’s grace as well as the way Sarfraz Bhai captained the team and played with every single player; I can’t express it in words,’ Ali added.
India can beat any team against them:
India was certainly better on paper; although their performance was good as well, they can beat any team in front of them if a team has the power. So, all of them had the drive to win.
