LLC 2023: Shahid Afridi’s team defeat Bharat Maharaja, Gautam Gambhir’s fight goes in vain

India Maharaja vs Asia Lions: The thrill of Legends League Cricket (LLC 2023) has begun. In the first match of this tournament (March 10), the Asia Lions team defeated India Maharaja by 9 runs. Asia Lions is led by Shahid Afridi while the captain of India Maharaja is Gautam Gambhir. In this match, Asia Lions scored 165 runs in 20 overs while batting first. In response, Bharat Maharaja’s team could score only 156 runs in 20 overs.

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Captain Gautam Gambhir scored 54 runs off 39 balls for Bharat Maharaj. He hit 7 fours. Apart from Gautam Gambhir, no other batsman could do anything special. Gambhir tried to steer the team towards the target from one end, but Bharat Maharaja’s team kept losing wickets from the other end.

Chasing 166 runs, Robin Uthappa returned to the pavilion without opening his account. While Murali Vijay scored 25 runs and Suresh Raina scored 3 runs. Mohammad Kaif scored 22 runs and Yusuf Pathan scored 14 runs. Bharat Maharaja’s team lost 6 important wickets for 122 runs.

In this match, former Pakistan bowler Sohail Tanveer took 3 wickets for Asia Lions while bowling brilliantly. While Isru Udana, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thisara Perera and Abdul Razak took 1 wicket each.

Misbah’s brilliant innings

In this match, former Sri Lanka opener Upul Tharanga and former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq batted brilliantly for Asia Lions. Tharanga played an excellent innings of 40 runs off 39 balls while playing the opener, while Misbah played an innings of 73 runs off 50 balls with the help of 2 fours and 4 sixes.

Apart from these two batsmen, the third highest score in the innings of Asia Lions was that of captain Shahid Afridi, who scored 12 runs. Stuart Binny and Parvinder Awana took 2 wickets each for India Maharaja.