India Champions face Australia Champions in the first match of the World Championship of Legends 2026. In this match, the Indian Champions team scored 196 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs against Australia Champions on the basis of Yuvraj Singh’s stormy innings. India set a target of 197 runs for the Kangaroo team to win. In response to this target, the Australian team was all out after scoring 150 runs. They had to face defeat by 46 runs. 44 year old Yuvraj Singh played a strong innings in the very first match of this season and scored the first half-century of the season.
Yuvraj was out after scoring 71 runs
Yuvraj Singh batted brilliantly against Australia and completed his fifty in just 31 balls and scored 71 runs in 44 balls. In this stormy innings, he hit 6 brilliant sixes and 5 fours. Naman Ojha, who came to open the innings for India, scored 31 runs, while Ambati Rayudu was out after scoring only 4 runs. Stuart Binny, who came to bat at number three, also could not last long and walked away after scoring 13 runs.
Yusuf Pathan and Rishi Dhawan also batted brilliantly
In this match, Yusuf Pathan also batted brilliantly and scored 37 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 1 four in just 20 balls. However, his brother Irfan Pathan’s bat did not work and he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 1 run. Whereas Rishi Dhawan batted in a stormy style and scored unbeaten 35 runs in just 12 balls with 4 sixes and 1 four. Bowling for Australia, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ben Laughlin and Fawad Ahmed took 2-2 wickets.
Australia’s batting was a flop
Chasing the target, Australia Champions Team was all out after scoring 150 runs in 16.2 overs. Darcy Short scored the highest score of 65 runs on 28 balls for the team. Whereas Joe Burns was out after scoring 45 runs. Jonathan Wells contributed 11 runs. Apart from these three, the remaining 8 batsmen of the team were out in single digit scores. In the end they had to face defeat by 46 runs. Dhawal Kulkarni took maximum 4 wickets for India in this match. Mohit Sharma took 3 wickets in his account.
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