WCL 2025: The 14th match of the World Championship of Legends 2025 will be remembered for a unique incident in cricket history. In this match played between Pakistan Champion vs Australia Champion in Grace Road, Lester, Pakistan Champion defeated Australia Champion by 10 wickets. However, Australia Champion’s fast bowler John Hastings, who was in more discussion than the match, over 18 balls, which he could not complete because the match ended in the middle.

18 balls, yet over incomplete

John Hastings, who came to put the 8th over from Australia Champion, bowled such a bowling, which will be remembered for a long time in the history of cricket. He threw 12 wide and 1 no ball in this over, ie 13 extra balls. Overall, he bowled 18 balls, but during this time Hastings could put only 5 legal balls. Before the over was completed, the Pakistan Champion achieved the goal of victory easily. Hastings spent 20 runs in this over and the match was also over.

Australia champion’s embarrassing batting

In the match, Pakistan champion captain Shoaib Malik won the toss and decided to bowl first and his decision proved to be perfect. The entire team of Australia Champion could score only 74 runs. The entire team returned to the pavilion in 11.5 overs. Former Pakistan veteran spinner Saeed Ajmal took 6 wickets with his deadly bowling, while Imad Wasim took 2 wickets. Ben Dunk scored 26 runs for the Kangaroo champion team.

Pakistan champion achieved easy win

In response, the openers of Pakistan Champion made no mistake. The team achieved the target in 7.5 overs. Sharjil Khan scored 32 runs in 23 balls and Shoaib Maqsood gave the team a one -sided victory by scoring 28 runs in 26 balls. Saeed Ajmal was also adjudged Player of the Match for his brilliant performance.

While this match will be remembered for Pakistan’s strong victory, John Hastings’s 18 -ball over has joined the most strange moments in cricket history.

Pakistan defeated Australia by 10 wickets in their last match of the league stage on Tuesday at the World Championship of Legends. Batting first, Australia was piled up for 74 runs, after which Pakistan openers won a big win by achieving the target in 7.5 overs. Now Pakistan’s match in the semi -finals is with India Champions on Thursday.

Pakistan Champions captain Shoaib Malik won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sohail Tanveer got a good start and dismissed both openers Sean Marsh (7), Chris Lynn (6) cheaply. After this, 47 -year -old Saeed Ajmal’s brilliant bowling was seen.

Saeed Ajmal took 6 wickets for 16 runs in his spell of 3.5 overs. He dismissed Darcy Short, Ben Dunk, Dan Christian, Ben Cutting, Peter Siddal and Steve O’Kif. Ben Dunk scored the most runs for Australia, scoring 26 runs in 14 balls.

Pakistan Champions won the match in 47 balls

Pakistan did not have any problem in achieving a small target of 75 runs. Both openers remained unbeaten and achieved the target in 7.5 overs. Sharjil Khan scored 32 and Shoaib Maqsud scored 28 runs. After the league stage, Pakistan topped the points table. He won 4 out of 5 matches while a match with India Champions was canceled. That is, the Pakistan team has not lost any match in this tournament.

Ind vs pak match in semi -finals

India and Pakistan will be face to face in the semi -finals of the World Championship of Legends. But the big question remains whether India Champions will decide not to play with Pakistan in the semi -finals like the league stage, because if this happens, Pakistan can get the final ticket without playing and India can be out.

India Champions vs Pakistan Champions semi -final match is to be played on 31 August at Edgbaston. According to Indian time, this match will start from 5 pm. Till the news is written, no information has been received about the cancellation of this match. The second semi -finals will also be played between South Africa and Australia on 31 August. This match will start at 9 pm.

The Indian team’s journey in the World Championship of Legends 2025 (WCL 2025) has been disappointing so far. Now India Champions team has suffered a 4 -wicket defeat to Australia Champions (India Champions vs Australia Champions). The Indian team, captained by Yuvraj Singh, has not been able to register a single win in 3 matches so far. In this WCL match, India scored 203 runs in the first play, but Indian bowling failed in front of Calum Furigyan’s 70 -run stormy innings.

India scored 203 runs, Dhawan’s 91

In this match played in Leeds, India scored a huge score of 203 runs while playing first. Opener Shikhar Dhawan returned unbeaten after scoring 91 runs in 60 balls, in this innings he hit 12 fours and a six. Robin Uthappa also contributed 37 runs in 21 balls. Ambati Rayudu could not open the account, while Suresh Raina and captain Yuvraj Singh were dismissed by scoring 11 and 3 respectively. Yusuf Pathan’s bat rose such a fire that he made a big contribution in bringing India’s score to 200 in just 23 balls.

India won the match lost India

When Australia went off to chase the target of 204 runs, the team started very poorly. Piyush Chawla and Harbhajan Singh implicated the Kangaroo batsmen in their spin that Australia had lost 4 wickets on a score of 65. Daniel Christian and Calum Furiganuson’s 90 -run partnership made Australia a return to the match. Christian scored 39 runs, while Ben Cutting scored 15 runs and Rob Queeni scored 1 6 runs in 8 balls.

In the last over, Australia had to score 13 runs to win and Irfan Pathan was in front. Captain Yuvraj Singh’s decision to hand over bowling to Irfan was shocking because he had not done a single over in the match earlier. Australia had to score 3 runs on the last ball, on which Furganuson hit a skyscraper six and ensured his team’s win by 4 wickets.

Bowlers drown lootia

Vinay Kumar took one wicket from India, but looted 47 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Siddharth Kaul was also not behind in looting runs, who gave 37 runs in just 2 overs. Piyush Chawla took 3 wickets on the basis of deadly bowling, but Irfan Pathan could not defend 13 runs in the last over.

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