By Admin 
WCL 2025: Despite saying goodbye to international cricket, the bat of AB de Villiers is still spewing fire. On Tuesday, in the World Championship of Legends 2025, he scored a stormy innings of 63 runs against India and won his team South Africa Champions by 88 runs. With this crushing defeat, the team of India Champions has slipped to the bottom of the point table.
The match was played in Birmingham, where Indian captain Yuvraj Singh won the toss and decided to bowl first, which was completely upside down. The South African team set a huge target of 208 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs.
De Villiers’ brilliant innings
De Villiers, batting in his famous 360 degree style, scored 63 runs off just 30 balls. During this, he hit a brilliant 3 fours and 4 sixes. In the 19th over, he put 2 sixes and 2 fours against Vinay Kumar and took the team to a big score.
JJ Smats also scored 30 runs in 17 balls, while Van Vik scored 18 runs in just 5 balls in the last over. In this over of Mithun, he hit 1 six and 3 fours. Amla (22), Rudolf (24) and Duminy (16) also contributed significantly to the creation of this goal.
India’s batting collapsed
The India Champions started to chase the target of 209 runs. Shikhar Dhawan continued to run after scoring 1 run, Robin Uthappa returned to the pavilion after scoring 2 runs and Ambati Rayudu was also dismissed on zero. Yusuf Pathan (5), Irfan Pathan (20) and Suresh Raina (16) also failed to get the team closer to victory.
For India, Stuart Binny scored the most runs by scoring 37 runs and somehow took the team to a respectable score across 100 runs. In the middle match, the rain disrupted, after which India’s new target was reduced to 200 runs, but still the entire team of India collapsed for just 111 runs in 18.2 overs and lost the match by 88 runs.
Point table condition
This was India’s second match in the tournament. The first match was to be against Pakistan, but due to the dispute, the match was canceled and both teams got 1-1 points. South Africa won both their matches and made it to the top in the point table with 4 points. At the same time, India is sixth and last position with 1 point.