'Virat Kohli just showed his class today': Pakistan captain Babar Azam reflects on defeat to India in T20 World Cup

Often Babar Azam has been compared with Virat Kohli. Without an iota of doubt, two are world cricket's premier batters.

But on Sunday, even Pakistan skipper was in awe of Kohli, who fashioned India's memorable win in T20 World Cup at MCG.

Kohli's inspirational batting was difference between two sides.

"Our bowlers were outstanding in first 10 overs. Credit to Virat and Hardik, for manner, in which, y finished game," said Babar after demoralising defeat.

But when discussion veered towards Kohli, Babar was effusive in his praise.

"Virat Kohli just showed his class today. It was a close game and people enjoyed it." Winning a pressure game will boost Kohli’s morale after a lean patch of three years, Babar agreed.

"Pakistan vs India are always extra pressure games and more quickly you can overcome it, better. That's why he is a big player, re was pressure on him and he overcame it and n build his innings. way y built partnership was turning point," Pakistan skipper said.

"This innings must have given him a lot of confidence and when you win se kind of games, you mentally feel good," he ded.

Bringing Nawaz in 20th over

question that was inevitable was why left-arm spinner Mohammed Nawaz was brought in 20th over and pacers' quota of overs was exhausted before.

"When partnership (Kohli-Pandya) was building, we needed to get wickets and I thought of bringing my main bowler and build pressure.

"But plan didn’t work out as I would have thought. He (Nawaz) will learn from this and when next time he faces this kind of a situation, he will realise what he needs to do."

We need to get over disappointment quickly

Babar was very clear his mind that y can't keep on lamenting this defeat as tournament has just started.

"We will remain confident. We will learn from this defeat. Some good things happened and some mistakes happened. We will deliberate and it's just start of tournament and we have lot of games left.

" quicker we get over it better it is. We have back-to-back matches and we need to focus on that."