Tilak seals thriller to give India ninth Asia Cup title

India150 for 5 (Tilak 69*, Dube 33, Faheem 3-29) beatPakistan146 (Farhan 57, Fakhar 46, Kuldeep 4-30) by five wickets India blinked. They were 20 for 3 chasing 146. Their world-beating batting line-up was panicking as Pakistan came at them - this time for every reason because there was a title on the line. A collapse of 9 for 33 had left Salman Agha's men with no room for error and for the most part they coped with it. They got rid of Abhishek Sharma early. That sent jitters through a middle-order that was upended to accommodate Shubman Gill. A straightforward chase was going pear-shaped. And Tilak Varma felt all of this out in the middle. The quiet of the stands....