Unpredictable : Pakistan Cricket in CT 17'

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In conversation with Harsha Bhogle, Babar Azam discussed the different ups and downs of the CT 2017 journey. With the loss in the first couple of matches and by loosing much confidence of the team, Mikey Arthur and the team was very disappointed on lack of coordination and understanding between the team officials and the captain. 
With a push start every team is always very inspired to work harder than they did in the last or previous matches, but in the case of Pakistan there has always been ambiguity about what will happen and what is the strategy. 
Mickey Arthur held a meeting and discussed the mistakes and made sure that in the next matches these mistakes will be taken care of. Every player should back the other ones and give it their 100%. 
Later on, the team practiced further and improved their mistakes by looking at the video footage of the previous matches and understood that their weak points were fielding and batting line up strategy. Following this the Pakistan Team won the Champions Trophy 17. 
The final of the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was played on 18 June 2017 between Pakistan and India at The Oval in London, to determine the winner of the eighth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy. Pakistan qualified for the final by defeating the hosts England convincingly by 8 wickets in the first semi-final at Cardiff in Wales on 14 June, and reached their maiden Champions Trophy final. India, the defending champions and favourites, came into the final by defeating Bangladesh with ease by 9 wickets in the second semi-final at Birmingham on 15 June, to reach their fourth Champions Trophy final, a record.
Pakistan beat India to win their maiden ICC Champions Trophy, defeating India for the first time in an ICC event since 2009.
Pakistan won by 180 runs, which was the largest margin of victory in the final of an ICC ODI tournament. Pakistan were massive underdogs entering as the lowest-ranked team in the competition, became the seventh nation to win the Champions Trophy, and it was their first ICC ODI tournament title since 1992. Fakhar Zaman of Pakistan received the Man of the Match award for scoring a sublime 114. Shikhar Dhawan of India received the Golden Bat award for scoring 338 runs in the tournament while Hasan Ali of Pakistan received the Golden Ball award for taking 13 wickets; he was also adjudged the Man of the Series for his contribution towards Pakistan's first ICC tournament title since 2009. 

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