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On this day in 2009: Pakistan won the T20 World Cup

Sri Lanka was not able to recover and in the end, Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik guided Pakistan to their first T20 World Cup title win.

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Misbah-ul-Haq (C) of Pakistan celebrates with the trophy as the Pakistan cricket team celebrate winning the final ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match against Sri Lanka. Pic/ AFP

Misbah-ul-Haq (C) of Pakistan celebrates with the trophy as the Pakistan cricket team celebrate winning the final ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match against Sri Lanka. Pic/ AFP

It was on this day, 12 years ago, that Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka to win its first T20 World Cup title.

In the finals played at the Lord's Cricket Ground, Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat first. Sri Lanka got off to a bad start as it lost its first four wickets with just 32 runs on the board.

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