In the World Championship of Legends 2024, Pakistan defeated Australia by 5 wickets in their first match.
According to the details, in the second match of the World Championship of Legends 2024 hosted by England, Younis Khan, the captain of Pakistan Champions, won the toss and decided to bowl first. Both teams met at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium in Birmingham. On the invitation of the Australian champions started batting and the openers played responsibly and established a partnership of 69 runs for the first wicket, after which Shaun Marsh, who was at the crease after scoring 16 runs, was bowled and returned to the pavilion. Ben Dunk along with Aaron Finch brought the total score of the team to 120, Finch was caught after 6 runs, he played an unbeaten innings of 68 runs. Not with runs. Daniel Christian 9, Ben Cutting 2 while Tim Paine returned without opening the account, thus the Australian champions scored 189 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik scored 2 for Pakistan. 2, Sohail Tanveer, Wahab Riaz and Saeed Ajmal took one wicket each.
In response to the target, Pakistan champions started batting which did not prove to be good, opener Kamran Akmal continued to score only 4 runs, third placed Sohib Maqsood formed a partnership of 18 runs with Sharjeel Khan, 24 runs. Sharjeel Khan also got out on the total score. Sohaib Maqsood and Shoaib Malik took the overall score of the Milkar team to 61, both of them played an innings of 21 and 23 runs respectively. After 4 outs, captain Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq. took the crease and both of them did not let the Aussie bowlers run.
The two Pakistani batsmen played an important role in the victory of the team by establishing a partnership of 90 runs, captain Younis Khan was left lbw on a total score of 169, followed by Shahid Afridi and Misbah-ul-Haq for 190 runs. 2 balls already achieved the target. Musbah 46 off 30 balls while Shahid Afridi remained not out with 11 runs, Brett Lee and Nathan Coulter-Nile took 2, 2 wickets for the Australian champions while Xavier Doherty had one player. It should be remembered that the teams of England, India, Australia, Pakistan, West Indies and South Africa are participating in the World Championship of Legends. All the teams will be seen in action until July 13. It will be in July.
