India beat Pakistan by 5 runs to win inaugural Twenty20 World Cup 24 Sep, 2007, 2058 hrs IST, AGENCIES
JOHANNESBURG: India bowled out Pakistan with three balls remaining on Monday to win the first Twenty20 World Cup final by five runs.
India hit 157 for five wickets at Wanderers Stadium before reducing Pakistan to 104-7 off 16 overs. Sohail Tanvir then hit 12 runs off four balls with two huge sixes to bring Pakistan back in contention.
Tanvir fell to make it 138-8 and Pakistan lost its last three wickets for 14 runs, Misbah-ul-Haq holing out to a catch by Sreesanth for 43 to end the match
PPl dont be upset jus bcoz we lost to India it dont mean we r not a gud team. Inshallah we will do better next tym. We put up a gud fight. We did not give up till the end. Did u c India's team scared now that was a gud sight.
Misbah and Malik will kick Ass 4 sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😛
Bravo to the PAKISTAN 4 PLAYING FROM THE HEART AND PLAYING EXCELLENTLY. 👏
I know! I watched the whole match, and pak played GREAT! Especially Misbah-ul-haq, he rocked! He's the one who brought pak up from going down..again! Mashallah they did great.. just a matter of 5 runs, otherwise pak would definetly have won:D I know, dhoni was really scared at the end and running here and there, but Pak did awesome! I luv Shoaib Malik! I think he's doing a wonderful job as a captain (plus..hes cute!! :D) lolz
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