Published June 18, 2017 by Knowminfo with
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- India and Pakistan have played 4 matches so far in the ICC Champions Trophy and both the sides winning twice each.
- This is India's record fourth Champions Trophy final while it's Pakistan's first.
- India and Pakistan have reached to the final of Champions Trophy together for the first time.
- The ICC estimates that the match will be watched by 324M worldwide.
- This is for the second time that India is facing Pakistan in the final of an ICC event. Earlier, both the sides had locked horns in the final of 2007 T20 World Cup.
- India and Australia are the only two teams to have won ICC Champions Trophy twice.
- This is the first time Pakistan has made it to a Champions Trophy final. Team Pakistan has previously reached the semi-finals of Champions Trophy three times but were never able to advance to the finals on any occasion.
- Overall, Pakistan has won two ICC championships – World Cup in 1992 and World Twenty20 in 2009. India has won five ICC titles, including two World Cups (1983 and 2015) and the World Twenty20 in 2007, apart from winning the Champions Trophy twice.
- The last time Pakistan beat India in a Champions Trophy match was in 2009. Since then, Pakistan have met India seven times at ICC events and India has won every time.
- India and Pakistan have played 124 ODIs in ICC history, with Pakistan winning 72 and India winning 52. The two teams haven't played a bilateral series since 2012-13, and since then, have only faced off at ICC tournaments.
- India leads Pakistan 2-1 in the last three times both teams met in an ODI – India winning the Champions Trophy qualifier on June 4, 2017 played at Birmingham, as well as the ICC World Cup qualifier played in Adelaide on Feb 15, 2015. Pakistan beat India in the Asia Cup match played at Dhaka on March 2, 2014.
- India has a perfect record of beating Pakistan in ICC World Cup matches, in all formats of the game.
- Champions Trophy has been held eight times, including the current edition. The next one is scheduled to be played in India in 2021
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