Golden opportunity for Pak to avenge loss to India: Imran Khan

TIL Desk Sports/ Former World Cup winning captain, Imran Khan said Pakistan have got a golden opportunity in the Champions Trophy final to avenge its humiliating defeat to India in their first match of the tournament.

“I think we have got a great chance to restore our pride in the final because of the way we lost the first match to India,” he told a television channel. “It was humiliating how we lost that match and we can turn things around now,” he added.

Imran regarded as Pakistan’s best captain after he led them to the 1992 World Cup title said Pakistan needed to learn from the mistakes it made against India in that match. Imran also advised Pakistan captain, Sarfraz Ahmed to avoid putting India into bat first if he won the toss in the final.

“India have a very good batting line-up and if they put up a big total it will bring pressure on us. The strategy of fielding first against other teams has worked well for Sarfraz against other teams as the spinners throttled the opposition in the middle overs and Hassan Ali bowled really impressively,” he said.