Overview

• Pakistan were bowled out for 146 after slipping from 113/1, undone by Kuldeep Yadav’s 4/30 and Varun Chakravarthy’s 2/30, with Jasprit Bumrah taking 2/25.
• India chose to field and Pakistan’s openers Sahidzada Farhan (57) and Fakhar Zaman (46) laid an 84-run platform before the spin-led collapse.
• Faheem Ashraf’s 3/29 reduced India to 20/3, but Tilak Varma shared a 57-run stand with Sanju Samson and was joined by Shivam Dube’s 33 to steady the chase.
• Rinku Singh, playing his first match of the tournament, struck a boundary off his first ball to finish the game and later said, “Nothing else matters.”
• Shubman Gill hailed India’s unbeaten campaign as “pretty amazing,” and bowling coach Morne Morkel praised Dube for stepping up with ball and bat after Hardik Pandya’s injury.