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Pakistan can take pride in getting to the World Cup final but now their young team must take the next step — learning how to close out tight games, said batter Shan Masood<\/a> on Sunday. Babar Azam<\/a>‘s men pushed England all the way at the Melbourne Cricket Ground but fell to a five-wicket defeat with six balls remaining after setting a below-par 138-run target to win. Masood top-scored with 38 and said he took responsibility for not staying around longer to put together a bigger total.<\/p>\n “There were stages especially with the bat that we could have finished things off really well,” he said.<\/p>\n “Personally, I take blame for it. We were aiming for 170 and having looked at the way the innings ended, we could have used a batsman staying in and getting us to at least 155-160, which would have been good on that pitch.”<\/p>\n Instead they fell short, leaving it up to their renowned pace attack to blunt England. But Ben Stokes<\/a>‘s unbeaten 52 was enough to see his team to a second T20 World Cup triumph following their 2010 victory.<\/p>\n