Masood blames himself, Shadab after T20 World Cup final loss.

KARACHI -- Pakistan batter Shan Masood blamed himself and Shadab Khan for the loss against England in the final of the T20 World Cup 2022 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Pakistan were handed a five-wicket loss by the Poms in the final, thanks to a brilliant bowling performance from Sam Curran and Adil Rashid and a crucial half-century from all-rounder Ben Stokes.

Opting to field first, England restricted Pakistan to a meagre 137 runs before chasing down the target in 19 overs to become the champions of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

Masood felt Shadab and himself were to blame for the innings' collapse.

"When Babar and I were batting, we built a very good platform and then lost two wickets. We recovered that with Shadab and myself and then I don't think we finished well and I think me and Shadab hold ourselves accountable for not staying there," Masood told ESPNcricinfo.

There were stages, especially with the bat where we could have finished the innings really well. Personally, I take the blame for it. I thought that we were aiming for 170 and having looked at how the innings ended, maybe we could have used a batsman staying until the end and getting us to 155-160 which looked...