What a sport!
What a team!
What a match!
Pakistan - Cricket champions again!
Congrats everyone.
PS: Lets assume this thread is from @waleedhbk since he had a complain he didnt get a chance to open the thread for the finals.
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Coach Mickey Arthur : “Eid has come early for Pakistanis”
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Pakistan: From 8th ranking to 8th wonder!
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Celebrations in Tooting - the closest Pakistani town near Oval.
And elsewhere as well.
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maza aagaya 
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ICC’s video of Pakistani victory lap:
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The CHAMPION moments:
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Yeh ju 4 airhostesses hain!!! I mean…mera matlab hay…yani iss waqt rozay ka time nahi hay… tu yeh kyon hain yahaan?
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Pakistan fans bring south London to a standstill after Champions Trophy final defeat of*India
[INDENT=2]A friend of mine has 2 Oval VIP tickets for the ICC India v Pak final. He paid £250 each but he didn’t realise when he bought them it was on the same day as his wedding. If you’re interested he is looking for someone to take his place.
It’s at the Sikh Temple in Gravesend at 11am. The bride’s name is Gurmit Kaur. She’s 5’4”, about 115lbs and she’s a good cook too. She will be the one in the Red Langha.
Text message on the eve of the final, author unknown
Trying to explain India v Pakistan to the uninitiated is like trying to describe Mozart to the deaf. You have to taste the passion up close, hear the songs, see the colours. You have to feel it for yourself.
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And on Sunday, the best place to feel it was in south London. You could feel it even before you ascended the escalators at the Tube station, where every single advertisement had been bought up by an Indian television company. You could feel it inside the ground: one placard-waving India supporter had flown all the way from Houston for the match. And you could see it outside the locked gates, where fans in their hundreds strained to catch a glimpse of the big screen through the railings, or roamed the pavements pleading for spare tickets.
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Shoaib Malik celebrates winning the Champions Trophy with Pakistan fans CREDIT: REUTERS
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[INDENT=2]But you did not even have to be at The Oval to experience the fervour. Six stops down the Northern Line in Tooting, most of the local businesses are open, but it is fair to say very little business is getting done. This is home to one of London’s largest Pakistan communities, and in virtually every bakery, convenience store and mobile phone shop on Tooting Broadway, pakoras are going cold and stock untended as six or eight men huddle around a television or mobile phone.
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[INDENT=2]It is a similar story in the Lahore Karahi restaurant, where my request for a Sindhi biryani and mango lassi is greeted with a sigh from the chef, who is forced to tear himself away from the TV and return to the kitchen.
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[INDENT=2]Meanwhile, manager Malik and the entire staff are feeling bullish. Azhar Ali and Fakhar Zaman had started well, and Malik scoffs at my suggestion that Pakistan will need a score of at least 350 to protect themselves against India’s gun batsmen.
“Who have they got?” he demands. “If Pakistan score 280, inshallah, it’s all over.”
Yet what became clear over the course of the day is that this a purely sporting rivalry. After all, this is not simply a Pakistani area, but one of London’s true melting pots: Lahore Karahi shares the same stretch of road as Chennai Dosa, a Portuguese piri-piri chicken shop and a clutch of hipster pubs. “Here, we all live side by side,” one of the waiters tells me. “We go to the same shops, eat the same food. We are the same. Maybe in India and Pakistan, there is more hate. But it’s just the politicians.”
We are interrupted by a collective groan. Zaman has just been caught at third man. “Who’s in next?” someone asks.
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[INDENT=2]“Hafeez,” someone replies.
A dozen pairs of eyeballs roll in unison.
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Mohammad Hafeez hit 57 off 37 balls for Pakistan CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
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[INDENT=2]But then, something strange happens. Mohammad Hafeez – a batsman whose earnest twiddling occasionally feels as anachronistic in today’s hyper-powered modern game as a guy reading a book in the middle of a rave – comes alive. He lopes down the track and smacks his first ball straight back over Ravindra Jadeja’s head for four. Over the course of an hour, he strikes 57 off 37 balls to haul Pakistan to a total of 338.
Then with the ball, Mohammad Amir tears through the feared Indian top order. He gets Rohit Sharma third ball, Shikhar Dhawan caught behind, sees Virat Kohli dropped at slip and is so furious he gets him out for real next ball. With every wicket, a terrific, disbelieving roar goes up. At some point in late afternoon, it becomes clear that Pakistan are going to win.
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[INDENT=2]The final wicket is greeted with a convulsion of noise and relief.
Customers applaud wildly. To be Pakistani anywhere outside Pakistan is to be doubted, disdained, ignored, mistrusted. To follow the Pakistan cricket team is to subject yourself to a life of pain, anger and mostly total bewilderment. Every once in a while, however, it all feels worthwhile.
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[INDENT=2]I leave Lahore Karahi with a bag of pakoras that will later send me into paroxysms of gastronomic ecstasy, and take to the High Street. And in front of the Tooting Shopping Mall, opposite Nadim Fabrics, something extraordinary is happening. A small group of Pakistan fans have parked their cars on the pavement at the corner of Hebdon Road and are toasting their victory to anyone who will listen. As the sun sets on south London, fans in Pakistan shirts pour out of the side streets, terraced houses and sweet shops to join them: a couple of dozen at first, then a few dozen, then a hundred, then hundreds.
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[INDENT=2]The party has started. The crowd swells. A BMW convertible draped in a Pakistan flag shakes with the weight of three grown men jumping on the bonnet, shouting: “Pakistan! Zindabad!” Out of an open first floor window, a giant speaker system thumps to the strains of “Dil Dil Pakistan”.
Startled passengers press their faces to the windows of buses. Confused shoppers pause to take photos. Tooting Broadway is a fiesta of noise and colour, of foghorns and car horns and klaxons, and revving motorcycle engines and human voices, of poppers and streamers raining confetti on the street.
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[INDENT=2]As ever, there is method in the madness. One old guy stands in the road directing the traffic. Three or four guys take in turns to do shifts on the car horn. Flags are raised and a song goes up: a song to victory, a song to glory, a song to mad, bad, bold, brilliant, beautiful Pakistan.
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Ye rozay ke inaam men hooron ke waaday ki eik jhalak 
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From U19 worldcup in 2006 to Champions trophy in 2017: Any doubts on his captaincy?
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Unhay milay hoor aur qasoor
Aur hamay faqt wada e hoor
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About Virat Kohli..
He is a nightmare for opposition! He is one batsman every team wish for!!! If i say he is real power behind Indian batting power house theb that wouldn’t be so wrong…
Yet he have shown his gentle side, when talking about opponents be it Bangladesh or Pakistan or Srilanka, he gave then respect and no sign of arrogance!!! Yet few Pakistani and lots of Indians abusing him and were found asking for his head…
Come on guys, yes he may have made a wrong call of batting second…but wait a minute, if Fakhar wasn’t caught on a NO-BALL, it was big blow for Pakistan…because the remainder of the batsme. Were tried and tested and they were not capable of scoring more than 220 or 240 at max…
Kohli in my opinion made a right call and Hardik’s inning was enough to demonstrate it…
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Today’s kohli is much different than the kohli of two years back. Much mature and less arrogant compare to previous years.
Asking for head of captain is norm in our asian countries … let them listen to the song which we were going for long..
BTW this defeat will make Kumble’s case more stronger and power of players will be reduced.
I hope the reverse must not happen in PK.
India’s strength is chasing. They did correct call. Even pakistan win all matches while chasing.. and most pundit and sarfraz himself were saying pakistan should chase . So the decision was spot on. Only the difference was our team fired full throttle.
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Cricinfo’s compilation video of celebration and reactions around the world:
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This is really very big achievement… winning title … Next stage is constant improvement in quality of player…
fitness training, and cricket practice… every day… Pakistan can become unbeatable…
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Many good things from this tournament. For me personally, the spirit of fight, positive attitude, taking game as game, a fighter type player as captain and new young blood.