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India Champions’ performance has been quite a struggle so far in the World Championship of Legends 2025. They have played 2 matches so far in which one match had a no result due to rain and in the second match they had to face defeat at the hands of South Africa Champions by 88 runs. Their batting line-up was completely scattered in the first match – the top order was out early and only Stuart Binny showed some fight by scoring 37* runs. Piyush Chawla showed some control in bowling but the team lost the match in front of AB de Villiers’ destructive innings. India Champions are still in search of their first win.
Australia Champions have performed very well in this tournament. So far one of their matches has been no result, but in the second match they defeated West Indies Champions by 8 wickets. Their star batsman Chris Lynn played a brilliant innings of 81 runs in just 27 balls and the team chased the target of 143 in just 9.3 overs. Bowling was also tremendous – Peter Siddle took 3 wickets and Coulter-Nile also made 2 important breakthroughs. With this win Australia Champions have become the top contenders of the tournament.
The Headingley pitch is considered quite balanced for T20 matches. Batting is also good here and fast bowlers also get some help. In recent matches, 180+ scores have been made here many times, which shows that this pitch is quite helpful for batting. As the game progresses, the pitch becomes more flat, which makes chasing a little easier. This is why the team winning the toss mostly chooses to bowl first.
Fast bowlers get wickets here, but their economy rate is a little high. Spinners do not get much help here, but can get some grip at the end of the match. Batting is easy in the powerplay and wickets fall in the last overs. It has been seen in both Test matches and T20 that the chasing team has a little advantage.
India Champions and Australia Champions have clashed twice in Legends League so far, in which both have won one match each. Both the teams are quite strong and balanced and both have a good mix of match-winning players. This rivalry is old and whenever these two teams clash, fans get to witness an amazing match.
The last time when these two teams clashed in the semi-final, India Champions defeated Australia Champions by 94 runs. India had scored 220 runs while batting first, in which Yuvraj played a good innings of 59 runs and Rayudu played an innings of 58 runs. For Australia, Watson scored 54 and Cutting scored 39 runs, but the whole team was all out for 126. Nadeem took 3 wickets giving only 15 runs in 4 overs and became the Player of the Match.
Robin Uthappa (wk), Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh (c), Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Stuart Binny, Pawan Negi, Abhimanyu Mithun, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar
Injury Update: None
Shaun Marsh, Chris Lynn, D Arcy Short, Ben Dunk(w), Callum Ferguson, Ben Cutting, Daniel Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Steve O'Keefe, Brett Lee(c), Peter Siddle
Injury Updates: None
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