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Babar Azam and Virat Kohli are considered the part of the current 'Fab 4'. On October 23, it was Kohli who overshadowed his counterpart with a herculean unbeaten 82-run knock to win the game for India. Kohli was clearly the difference between the two sides. In the post-match press conference, he hailed Kohli for his match-winning knock.
"Our bowlers were outstanding in first 10 overs. Credit to Virat and Hardik, for the manner, in which, they finished the game. Virat Kohli just showed his class today. It was a close game and people enjoyed it," the Pakistan skipper told the reporters.
"Pakistan vs India are always extra pressure games and the more quickly you can overcome it, the better. That's why he is a big player, there was pressure on him and he overcame it and then build his innings. The way they built partnership was turning point.
"This innings must have given him a lot of confidence and when you win these kind of games, you mentally feel good," he added.
Babar also explained why Mohammad Nawaz was held back till the 20th over and fast bowlers' quota was completed in the 19th over.
"When the partnership (Kohli-Pandya) was building, we needed to get wickets and I thought of bringing my main bowler and build pressure.
"But the plan didn’t work out as I would have thought. He (Nawaz) will learn from this and when next time he faces this kind of a situation, he will realise what he needs to do."
While it was a disheartening loss for Pakistan, the skipper believes that the tournament has just started and the team needs to remain confident.
"We will remain confident. We will learn from this defeat. Some good things happened and some mistakes happened. We will deliberate and it's just start of the tournament and we have lot of games left.
“The quicker we get over it better it is. We have back-to-back matches and we need to focus on that.”
