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Can talk about Afridi's injury which is unfortunate doesn't hide the fact the batting performance wasn't good enough, not enough runs.
 

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Pakistan needed to keep taking wickets to have a chance. Once the wickets dried up England had the players in had to see this out.
Pakistan especially Naseem Shah was bowling too well and that is why he kept missing the bat, needed to give stokes a chance to edge it.
 

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Well done England. Stokes held his nerve in a tough situation. Big game player.
 

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Well done England, they are the best limited overs team and it hasn't been by chance lot of planning and hard work has gone into it.
 

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So fecking lucky, Stokes and Buttler. Constant plays and misses. Then the Shaheen injury.

Nothing between the two sides today, one was just much luckier than the other.
 

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Fairplay to Pak bowlers to making a game of this target. No other bowling attack could have managed it.
 

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England have been a lot of fun to watch in white ball cricket since about 2015. The attitude they play with is great. Deserved undisputed white ball champions.
 

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That brook stokes pship won the game. A wicket there and Pakistan were right in it. They must have hit 40 off 40 balls and just England in the position that a few boundaries would win it.
 

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Sensational Stokes!

England the best cricket team the world has seen. 50 over, T20 and test. Superb stuff!

Commiserations Pakistan.
 

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So fecking lucky, Stokes and Buttler. Constant plays and misses. Then the Shaheen injury.

Nothing between the two sides today, one was just much luckier than the other.
No Pakistan batting was atleast 30 runs short, but bowling was very unlucky, Naseem especially was unplayable. If he was just a bit more playable he would have gotten stokes.
 

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Fairplay to Pak bowlers to making a game of this target. No other bowling attack could have managed it.
Always been a historical fact that the batting is lagging behind the bowling.
 

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Unlucky for Pakistan, they bowled exceptionally. However, so did England in the first innings - Rashid was insane. England deserved tournament winners, even if there was not much in it today. Great match.