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India Maharajas vs Asia Lions Highlights: Afghan stars as Indian legends lose 2nd match
Legends League Cricket: Asia Lions beat India Maharajas by 36 runs as Asghar Afghan starred with bat and ball.
Mohammad Kaif's India Maharajas lost by 36 runs against the Asia Lions led by Misbah ul Haq in the Legends League Cricket match on Monday. The India Maharajas have lost top spot in the table and will need to win their last group match against World Lions to reach the final.
READ | Legends League Cricket 2022 Points Table, Most Runs, Wickets
Upul Tharanga (72) and Asghar Afghan (69*) starred as Asia Lions scored 193/4 in 20 overs. India finished with 157/8 in reply.
As it happened:
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- 24 Jan 2022 2:58 PM GMT
Tharanga anchors innings
India Review to get a wicket. The first decision by Shubhda Bhosale overturned. 6 Reviews have been taken at LLC T20, this is the first time the umpire loses. Aavishkar Salvi gets a wicket.
Nikhil Chopra, who was stingy in his first over, continues in the Powerplay. Mohammad Yousuf joins Tharanga, who continues to drive the innings.
Asia 37/2 after 6
- 24 Jan 2022 2:46 PM GMT
Asia Lions get a move on
Kaluwitharana gets the first boundary of the match in Gony's over. Tharanga has joined him. Singles the order of the day. Nikhil Chopra into the attack in the 4th over - Tharanga sweeps for four comfortably. The run rate rises above 6 for the first time.
Asia 21/1 after 3.1
- 24 Jan 2022 2:32 PM GMT
Binny gets 1st ball wicket
Dilshan, Kaluwitharana open the Asia innings. Stuart Binny bowls. And it's a first ball wicket! Dilshan gone for a duck, c & b Binny.
Asia 0/1 after 0.1
- 24 Jan 2022 2:17 PM GMT
India Maharajas vs Asia Lions: Playing XIs
India Maharajas (Playing XI): Naman Ojha(w), Wasim Jaffer, S Badrinath, Mohammad Kaif(c), Yusuf Pathan, Stuart Binny, Nikhil Chopra, Manpreet Gony, Amit Bhandari, Aavishkar Salvi, Munaf Patel
Asia Lions (Playing XI): Upul Tharanga, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mohammad Yousuf, Asghar Afghan, Misbah-ul-Haq(c), Romesh Kaluwitharana(w), Nuwan Kulasekara, Mohammad Rafique, Dilhara Fernando, Shoaib Akhtar, Muttiah Muralitharan
- 24 Jan 2022 2:14 PM GMT
India Maharajas vs Asia Lions: Points Table, Schedule
As it stands before the second round of league matches begin.
- 24 Jan 2022 2:11 PM GMT
Wasim Jaffer responds to Vaughan tweet
"He gets on to me, I get to him when I get a chance. Everyone enjoys it," Wasim Jaffer says on Michael Vaughan, saying every run he scores today is dedicated to the England captain.
15 minutes to match.
- 24 Jan 2022 2:08 PM GMT
India to bowl first
India Maharajas win toss, opt to field first. 2 changes for the Indian team. Venugopal Rao and RP Singh out, Avishkar Salvi and Nikhil Chopra in.
Many changes to the Asia Lions team. Shoaib Akhtar is back in the XI
- 24 Jan 2022 1:38 PM GMT
India Maharajas vs Asia Lions: Match to be played with no spectators
Team news set to be out in 20 minutes but in some breaking news, ticket sales have been been stopped at the venue because of a rise in Covid cases.
- 24 Jan 2022 1:24 PM GMT
India Maharajas vs Asia Lions: Teams
The fourth match of the Legends League. Today's big news could be the return of Sehwag to lead the Indian team. Kaif was captain after it was announced that Sehwag would miss the first two games.
India Maharajas Squad: Naman Ojha(w), Wasim Jaffer, S Badrinath, Mohammad Kaif(c), Yusuf Pathan, Stuart Binny, Hemang Badani, Venugopal Rao, RP Singh, Manpreet Gony, Munaf Patel, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Sanjay Bangar, Nayan Mongia, Amit Bhandari
Asia Lions Squad: Kamran Akmal(w), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Mohammad Hafeez, Asghar Afghan, Misbah-ul-Haq(c), Azhar Mahmood, Umar Gul, Nuwan Kulasekara, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Yousuf, Sanath Jayasuriya, Shahid Afridi, Ajantha Mendis, Romesh Kaluwitharana