CT 2013: Indian heroes who created history by defeating Pakistan

Birmingham: India has entered the semi final of this edition of Champions Trophy and is looking all set to reach the finals of the last edition of Champions Trophy.

 

India faced Pakistan on Saturday in a tournament in which they had never been able to defeat them. But Dhoni's brigade is used to achieving the impossible. They won the World Cup after 28 years, they reached number 1 in Test ranking in Tests as well as ODIs and won the inaugural T20 World Cup. 

 

They achieved the unachievable on Saturday too when they defeated the out of sorts Pakistan team. 

 

Click on the next slide to know who were India's heroes in this match.

 

  

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

 

Put into bat by Indian skipper MS Dhoni, Pakistan's batsman had no answer to Bhuvneshwar Kumar's swinging deliveries. In the third over of the innings, Kumar sent Jamshed back to the pavilion and then when Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez were trying to steady the innings, Kumar struck again taking the wicket of Mohammad Hafeez.

  

Ravindra Jadeja

 

India's dark horse, Ravindra Jadeja spun his web around the Pakistani batsmen just as he did against South Africa and West Indies. Jadeja claimed two important wickets. He bowled Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq and then dismissed the ever consistent Shoaib Malik. He along with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ravichandran Ashwin made sure that Pakistan did not put up a huge score on board.

  

Ravichandran Ashwin

 

Ashwin, who looked out of sorts throughout the tournament, came into his own in this match. He claimed the all important wicket of Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal. Akmal's wicket started the collapse for Pakistan.

 

Ashwin also claimed the wicket of Wahab Riyaz who could not even score a run.

  

Shikhar Dhawan

 

After decimating South Africa and West Indies, India's 'gabbar' set his sights on Pakistan and started clobbering the bowlers all around the park. Dhwan shared another successful opening partnership with Rohit Sharma of 58 runs. 

 

Dhawan scored a stroke-filled 48 runs off 41 balls with 5 fours. Dhawan started cautiously but after seeing off the new ball he launched and all out attack on the Pakistan bowlers.