Strategy prepared, ready to face India tomorrow: Sarfraz Ahmed

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The defending champion India will take on Pakistan in the final encounter of the tournament, on Sunday.

Ganguly said India are a better side than Pakistan.

The score is Pakistan's second-highest against India.

He celebrated with an extravagant twirl of his bat and kissed the turf as the Pakistan supporters sensed an unlikely win for the lowest-ranked team going into the tournament who lost heavily to India in the group stage. Sehwag and Suresh Raina contributions helped India set a target of 261 as Pakistan's Wahab Riaz's took a five-wicket-haul.

"The way youngsters have performed in this tournament is really encouraging for us, they all have played an important role in bringing Pakistan to the final of this tournament", he said.

The heat is on, always, during India-Pakistan cricket matches. Pandya is a promising talent for India, but he need to curb his tendency to fire too many short balls.

Amir, however, has once again become a mainstay of the Pakistan team since returning to the side early in 2016, appearing in 47 of the team's 57 matches across all worldwide formats following his comeback.

The situation became worse in light of fixing scandals, and BCCI decided not to take part in tournaments in Sharjah or the Middle East.

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"If you drive into nearly any city in India, you will see his face appear on every other billboard".

"It will be a cracker of a game tomorrow", Sourav Ganguly told India Today.

But how many of their players would be picked in a team of the tournament? Their logic is that Pakistan is a highly uncertain side and can upset any team. They defeated strong sides like South Africa, Sri Lanka and England in the semi-final. But I thought this is this best gameplan for this stage and I started playing aggressively. However, the current Indian team does not panic. "We have got a group of young players".

Pakistan post a mammoth total of 338 against India.

The lack of finances and exposure to top class cricket has hurt Pakistan very badly. Sometimes the rival time chases well on a flat track. Misbah-ul-Haq's half-century guided Pakistan to level the score. In the match against England at Cuttack, both veterans Yuvraj and Dhoni scored centuries.

The others, including the highly energetic Hasan Ali, could be competent but the team's bug bear would be fielding. All batsmen are in form and whenever they have got the opportunity they have shown their class.

This, this lack of fearsome bowlers and awesome batsmen who indulged in ego trips, could well be Pakistan's advantage on Sunday. He has effected many run-outs in the tournament and has been instrumental in India's emergence as the best fielding side.

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