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India Legends vs Bollywood Kings: Azhar's army wins last-ball thriller by 2 runs — Highlights
Friendship Cup T10: India Legends (2 points from 2 matches) will play their final league match against Pakistan Legends on Monday.
Mohammad Azharuddin is the captain of the veteran Indian team, while S Sreesanth is one of the ex-cricketers listed as part of the Bollywood team.
Friendship Cup T10: India Legends, batting first, scored 83/2 in 10 overs. They were driven by a slow partnership between Mohammad Azharuddin (31*) and his son Mohammad Asaduddin (22) before Ajay Sharma (19) gave some impetus at the end. Bollywood Kings took it to the last ball but were 81/6 in their 10 overs, losing by 2 runs.
India Legends XI - Mohammad Azharuddin, Mohammed Asaduddin, Ajay Sharma, Nayan Mongia, Saba Karim, Sanjeev Sharma, JP Yadav, Rajesh Chauhan, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Amit Bhandari, Narendra Hirwani, Dhanraj Singh
Bollywood Kings Squad - Suniel Shetty, Sohail Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Boby Deol, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Saqib Saleem, Kunal Khemu, Sharad Kelkar, Vatsal Seth, Apoorva Lakhia, Varun Badola, Sameer Kochhar, Indraneil Sengupta, Kabir Sadanand, Raja Bherwani, Tushar Jalota, Sahil Chaudhary, Sreesanth, Salil Ankola
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 6 March 2022 1:43 PM GMT
Azhar and Asad struggle to find boundaries
Just four runs in the 6th over as boundaries elude the Mohammads. Six runs, all through singles in the 7th.
IND 52/1 after 7
- 6 March 2022 1:33 PM GMT
Azhar and son bat slow but steady
Azhar now pushes. Literally. Pushes his son to turn a single into a double. A flick for four then by the former great.
India still struggle with the run rate. Asaduddin steps out and chips a four over the infield. Azhar finishes the 5th over with another four.
IND 42/1 after 5
- 6 March 2022 1:21 PM GMT
Shailendra Singh (1/8) bowls a good spell
Shailendra Singh, looking like an upholstered version of Sam Curran, does brilliantly to bowl out his new ball spell with figures of 1/8. Azhar and son batting at a run rate of just about 6. Disastrous in T10 standards.
IND 19/1 after 3
- 6 March 2022 1:14 PM GMT
Azhar and son build partnership
Azharuddin joins his son in the middle at 3. Mudasir Bhat, who was the Bollywood team's star all-rounder yesterday, bowls the 2nd over. Father and son rotate the strike with singles. Asaduddin finally hits a big shot - six down the ground. Azhar approves.
IND 14/1 after 2
Here's a six Azhar hit and his son watched from the other end yesterday.
- 6 March 2022 1:00 PM GMT
Match begins with first-over wicket
India Legends win the toss. Azhar elects to bat first. His son is the opening batsman for India Legends today. Imtiyaz Ahmed is his partner. Here we go!
Asaduddin, married to Sania Mirza's sister, played a few FC matches for Goa a few years ago, but his selection had led to a revolt by senior Goa players. No such anger against his selection as he plays for his father's team today. Shailendra Singh gets the first wicket for Bollywood Kings. Imtiyaz is bowled for a duck.
IND 3/1 after 0.5
The Pakistan team, who India will face tomorrow:
- 6 March 2022 12:36 PM GMT
Friendship Cup points table, schedule
After two matches, here's how the teams stack up.
Pakistan Legends and World Legends have 2 points. India Legends and Bollywood Kings have 0 points. Four more matches are to be played before the final. Whoever wins the later match between Pakistan and World today is almost assured a place in the final. Whoever loses the first match - India vs Bollywood - today is also almost assured to be eliminated.
Of course, the biggest show of #FriendshipCup already happened earlier today - on the balconies of the windy Bay Oval arena.
- 6 March 2022 12:07 PM GMT
India Legends vs Bollywood Kings Team News
Three matches are scheduled in the day today. India Legends will play the first match among those at 6:30 pm IST.
Team News: Still no Ajay Jadeja or Kaif in the Indian legends team. And Sreesanth still misses out too. Though there is one ex-India international in the Bollywood side - Salil Ankola.
