• Pakistan 118-5; India 119-5. India win by 6 wickets
• Kohli’s precision and power seals World Twenty20 showdownWhen Virat Kohli completed a half-century,he bowed to the crowd, though really his gaze was fixed upon one man: Sachin Tendulkar. He had earned the correct. Combatting a spiteful wicket and a fierce attack with India’s future in the World Twenty20 imperilled, or Kohli defied these multifarious obstacles to turn a perilous run chase into a cruise.
And he had done it all against Pakistan. The late Mike Marqusee believed India-Pakistan cricket matches to be the fiercest rivalry in all sport. No witness to the bedlam – raucous cheers,zealous flag-waving and oh-so-much noise – in Kolkata would possess disagreed.
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Source: theguardian.com