Legends League Cricket 2022: India Maharaja defeated Asia Lions (India Maharajas vs Asia Lions) by 6 wickets, on the basis of Yusuf Pathan’s half-century, Team India achieved the target of 176.
Yusuf Pathan hit 80 runs (Photo-Twitter Screenshot)
Legends League Cricket 2022 tournament being played in Muscat (Legends League Cricket 2022) Had a great start. India Maharaja Asia Lions in the first match (India Maharajas vs Asia Lions) defeated by 6 wickets. Batting first, Asia Lions scored 175 runs in 20 overs, in response, India Maharaja achieved the target 5 balls first. The hero of India Maharaj’s victory was Yusuf Pathan, who turned the match completely by scoring 80 runs in 40 balls. Yusuf Pathan (Yusuf Pathan) He scored a half-century in just 28 balls and hit 5 sixes and 9 fours in his innings. Meaning he scored 66 runs from six fours. Apart from Yusuf, captain Mohammad Kaif played an innings of 42 runs in 37 balls.
Upul Tharanga scored 66 and captain Misbah-ul-Haq scored 44 runs for Asia Lions. Manpreet Goni took 3 and Irfan Pathan took 2 wickets for India. Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul took 1-1 wickets for Asia Lions.
Yusuf Pathan won the losing bet
Let us tell you that Team India, chasing the target of 176 runs, had a very bad start. Opener Stuart Binny got out in the third over. S Badrinath was out on the second ball without opening the account. Wicketkeeper Naman Ojha also got away after scoring 20 runs off 19 balls. At one time India Maharaja’s score was 34 for 3 in 6.1 overs but after this Mohammad Kaif and Yusuf Pathan made a brilliant century partnership.
Yusuf Pathan attacked the bowlers of Asia Lions from the very first ball and in just 28 balls, he hit fifty in just 28 balls. On the other hand, Mohammad Kaif was seen changing the strike in his own style. When Yusuf Pathan was moving towards his century, he was run out due to a misunderstanding. However, with his 80-run innings, he decided the victory of India Maharaja. In the end, his brother Irfan Pathan scored an unbeaten 21 in 10 balls to win the match to India Maharaja 5 balls before.
Earlier, left-handed batsman Upul Tharanga scored an excellent 66 in 46 balls for Asia Lions. Tharanga hit 7 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. In the last over, Misbah-ul-Haq batted vigorously in 30 balls. Misbah hit one four and four sixes in his innings.
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