India vs Pakistan LIVE: T20 World Cup final score, result and reaction today

And Ravindra Jadeja’s final ball of the night is also going to have to be retrieved from the boundary, dragged down the leg-side and given an encouraging slap by a swivelling Babar beyond short fine leg. Pakistan cruising.

This has been high, high quality from Pakistan, who are now able to play freely with so many wickets in hand and moving ever nearer to India’s total. Babar pulls Ravindra Jadeja crisply to the cow corner fence for four more.

A single brings up the 100 partnership for this pairing - what a revelation they have been since being combined at the top of the order.

Just 51 needed from the last 42 balls after a big over to rather ruin Varun Chakravarthy’s figures - 4-0-33-0 is his final analysis.

Bigger, and better! Short from Chakravarthy and that’s a mahoooooosive blow from Babar, thumping it over midwicket for a sizeable six to bring up a 40-ball half-century. Four fours, two sixes, and all class from the Pakistan captain.

Clears square leg! Varun Chakravarthy has barely had an attacking shot played against him but Mohammad Rizwan finally loses patience. It isn’t quite there for the big heave to the leg-side, turning away from a length outside off, but the boundary is short enough and the connection sufficiently clean to come down a couple of metres beyond the fielder on the fence.

Ravindra Jadeja is properly forcing the ball through here, up over 60mph as he tries to tie down the Pakistan pair. It doesn’t look simple to deal with his darts, driven into the surface, often from wide of the crease, but a slight erring in length means Rizwan can pull between the fielders in the deep to cow corner and collect a couple.

He tries to repeat the dose but the ball this time skids on, thudding into his thigh via an inside edge and drawing a right hook of frustration from the batter. Rizwan is removing his helmet after every over and is caked in sweat on a sticky Emirati evening.

Nearly the perfect answer from Bumrah, seeking the base of the stumps with another of those devastating yorkers and so nearly finding it, the ball giving Babar’s off-peg a frisk as it hurries past having beaten his defences.

Still, two twos and a single, plus that boundary, make that a good over for Pakistan.

Delightful! A slower ball from Bumrah is lifted by a flowing off-drive from Babar Azam, just holding his stroke slightly in recognition of the change-of-pace and beating a leaping mid-off in reasonable comfort for four.

Virat Kohli looked quite controlled in India’s tam huddle. He’s still got three overs left from Jasprit Bumrah, the first of which he will use now. He might not be able to afford to leave the remaining two to the death.

A clean defensive stroke to close the tenth from Mohammad Rizwan and the batters have faced 30 balls apiece as we reach the halfway point of the chase, and take a drink.

81 needed off the last ten - on most surfaces that would represent a cruise with all ten wickets intact but it became tough to score at the end of India’s innings when Pakistan went to their slower balls. Pakistan bat all the way down to nine so are well set, but with these two set, they may also be keen to try and force the pace in the next few overs to get ahead of the game.