Asia Cup final hero Tilak Verma received a strong reception in Hyderabad, he played a 69 -run match in the title match against Pakistan. Now he revealed that when Team India was in trouble and he was at the crease, what was going on in his mind, what he was thinking and how he kept himself calm between the sledging of the Pakistan team.

Talking to the media, Tilak Verma admitted that Team India had not taken Pakistan lightly in the final. He knew that the front team had also come preparation. The pitch was not very easy for batting, Pakistan also took wickets in the beginning. Tilak said that after the initial wickets, we moved forward by partner, this is also our specialty.

Tilak was thinking in the final, I will also die for the country

When asked by the journalist, you kept the match till the last over. So what was the experience and what was the pressure? To this, Tilak said, “There was pressure, the country is above all things. It was in my mind and mind that whatever I do, I will give life for my country too. So he was going on in the mind that if I get into pressure, I will do my country down, I will do 140 people down then I was keeping myself calm for them, this is what my coaches have taught me since childhood, then I have thought and I thought that I have thought and I have given it.”

Answer well after the match

Tilak Verma said that when 3 wickets fell early, the players of Pakistan started doing more sledging, then I was on batting. So if I got out of him after getting angry with him, he would have been out by hitting such a shot, then I always think about winning the match. So what I said to keep myself calm, follow Basic, do not answer much. So I did not say anything between the matches but have spoken well after the match. “

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The answer given with the bat is the best

Tilak Verma said about sledging by the players of Pakistan, “What happened, he cannot speak on camera but it is a little bit, and if this India is a Pakistan match, it happens. But the answer can be given best from the bat itself, then I had to do the same and I did the same.

In the Asia Cup 2025 final, Pakistan scored 146 runs while batting first, although it seemed that Pakistan team would reach 180 comfortably. But the final 8 wickets were dropped by the Indian bowlers within 32 runs, Kuldeep Yadav took the most 4 wickets.

However, chasing 147 runs, the Indian team started very bad. 3 wickets as Abhishek Sharma (5), Shubman Gill (12) and Suryakumar Yadav (1) fell within 20 runs. Then Tilak Verma, along with Sanju Samson, shared a 57 -run partnership with 57 and then Shivam Dubey. India needed 10 runs to win in the final over, Tilak Verma ensured India’s victory by hitting a six in this over and then Rinku Singh hit a winning shot.

India had a target of 147 to win in the final of Asia Cup 2025, but Team India was in trouble after falling 3 wickets for 20 runs. Tilak Verma then shared a significant partnership of 57 runs for the third wicket with Sanju Samson. After the breakdown of this pair, there was pressure on India once again, but Tilak Verma did not stop. Tilak scored an unbeaten 69 in 50 balls, hitting 4 sixes and 3 fours. Earlier, Kuldeep Yadav had implicated the batsmen of Pakistan in his spin.

Pakistan’s score was 114 runs in the 14th over and only 2 wickets had fallen, but then Kuldeep put a series of wickets. He took 4 big wickets. Kuldeep made Sam Ayub, Salman Ali Aga, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Faheem Ashraf their victims. Apart from him, Varun Chakraborty, Jaspreet Bumrah and Akshar Patel took 2-2 wickets.

Tilak Verma’s match winning innings

India’s top 3 wickets as Abhishek Sharma (5), Shubman Gill (12) and Suryakumar Yadav (1) fell for just 20 runs. Tilak Verma then shared a 57 -run partnership with Sanju Samson. After the dismissal of Sanju (24), a 60 -run partnership between Tilak and Shivam Dubey. Tilak also hit a six in the last over, he scored an unbeaten 69 runs in 53 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 3 fours.

The thrill of the last over

India needed 10 runs in the last over to win, Shivam Dubey was caught out on the last ball of the 19th over. The last over for Pakistan was hit by Haris Rauf.

• 19.1 – Tilak Verma ran 2 runs.
• 19.2 – Tilak Verma hit a six.
• 19.3 – Tilak Verma takes 1 run.
• 19.4 – Rinku Singh won the match by hitting a four.

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Pakistan trapped in Kuldeep Yadav’s spin

In the final of Asia Cup 2025, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets for 30 runs in 4 overs spell. There was a time when Pakistan could score up to 190, as Sahibzada Farhan and Fakhar Jaman shared an 84 -run partnership for the first wicket. But in the middle order, Kuldeep bowled brilliantly. Kuldeep dismissed Sam Ayub, Salman Ali Aga, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Faheem Ashraf.

When has Team India won the Asia Cup title

1984, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2025.