Former Team India all-rounder Yusuf Pathan, who quit international cricket many years ago and has now entered politics and become an MP, is still as explosive a batsman as ever. In Legends League Cricket, he presented a similar example of his explosive batting in front of the fans, leading his team out of defeat, but then met with an accident. Konark Surya Odisha star Yusuf Pathan hit fours and sixes in this final against Southern Super Stars. Yusuf scored 85 runs off just 38 balls but his heart broke on the last ball of the match.
52 runs in 2 overs, rain of sixes
In this final played at the Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, Konark’s batting completely collapsed in response to the target of 165 runs given by the Southern Super Stars. The team lost 6 wickets for just 91 runs in 14.1 overs and soon the score was 118 for 8 with 17 overs remaining. At such a time the team’s hopes rested entirely on Yusuf Pathan and the 41-year-old East Indian batsman did not disappoint. He hit sixes to bring his team closer to victory.
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When Yusuf came to bat in the 10th over, the team had lost 4 wickets. After this he showed his explosive style. In the first 16th over, Yusuf hit 2 sixes and 3 fours in Subodh Bhati’s over and scored a total of 24 runs. Which includes 2 sixes and 2 fours in 4 consecutive balls. The team then needed 35 runs in the last 2 overs and after that Yusuf’s bat rumbled. He hit 4 sixes and 1 four off spinner Pawan Negi in the 19th over, with 3 consecutive sixes coming off the fourth, fifth and sixth balls. In this way, a total of 28 runs were scored in the over. In this way he scored 52 runs in 2 overs.
Out on the last ball, heartbroken in the super over.
Now only 7 runs were needed in the last over but Chaturanga De Silva didn’t let that happen and didn’t even give any boundaries. 2 runs needed off the last ball and Pathan was on strike but could only take 1 run and was run out while trying to take the second run. Thus the match was tied. Yusuf hit 6 fours and 8 sixes in his innings. This was followed by the super over and here too Yusuf hit a six which was his 9th six of the match but he was dismissed here and his team scored 13 runs in the super over. In reply, for the Southern Super Stars, Martin Guptill hit consecutive sixes on the first and second balls of the over and then the team won the match on the fifth ball and won the title for the first time.
