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The County Ground in Northampton hosted a doubleheader on Wednesday, July 10, to conclude the 2024 World Championship of Legends (WLC) league stage. In the first match of the day and 14th of the tournament, Australia Champions outflanked West Indies by 55 runs in a high-scoring encounter.
Batting first, Australian opener Aaron Finch departed for seven in the third over before number three Ben Dunk shared gutsy partnerships with Shaun Marsh and Callum Ferguson. Dunk himself tonked a 35-ball 100 to blaze his team to 144 in less than 12 overs. Following Dunk’s opening hour of batting bombardment, Daniel Christian walloped 11 boundaries and eight sixes to make 99 from just 35 deliveries to take the Australia Champions to a monumental 274/7.
In response, West Indies Champions opener Dwayne Smith and number six Ashley Nurse bashed dazzling half-centuries. However, tight bowling from Brett Lee (2/30), Peter Siddle (1/32), Nathan Coulter-Nile (1/13), and Daniel Christian (1/20) restricted them to 219/6.
In the final league match of the competition, South Africa Champions amassed 210/8, courtesy of a 43-ball 73 from opener Jacques Snyman and a 25-ball 60 from Richard Levi. Among the Indians, only Harbhajan Singh’s performance stood out as the off-spinner claimed figures of 4/25 in the high-scoring innings.
Vernon Philander (2/17), Imran Tahir (1/18), and Charl Langeveldt (1/22) restricted the Indian response to just 156/6 as the aging Proteas group secured a 54-run win to cap the league stage of the competition.
World Championship of Legends Most Runs List
Ben Dunk broke into the top 10 through his 100-run knock against the West Indies on July 10. Among the leading run-getters of the 2024 World Championship of Legends, Dunk (210 runs) finds himself just 20 short of table-topping Englishman Ian Bell (230 runs).
Pakistan batters Sharjeel Khan (209 runs) and Shoaib Malik (204 runs) lost a rung each to slip to number three and four respectively, while Daniel Christian doubled his tally to 197 through his 99-run blistering act.
Aaron Finch, with 187 runs, broke out of the top five to be ranked sixth on the list. Sohaib Maqsood is seventh with 182 runs and Dwayne Smith blazed his way to number eight through his 64-run knock against Australia Champions. Shaun Marsh and Chadwick Walton round up the remainder of the top 10 with 170 and 162 runs, respectively.
World Championship of Legends Most Wickets List
Australian fast bowlers Brett Lee and Nathan Coulter-Nile sit at the top of the wickets ladder at the end of the league stage with nine and eight scalps, respectively. India Champions off-spinner Harbhajan Singh (seven wickets) shot himself up to number three by adding four wickets to his tally on July 10.
Englishman Chris Schofield (seven wickets) slipped to number four while Sohail Tanvir, Ravi Bopara, Wahab Riyaz, and Shoaib Malik occupy the next four slots with six wickets each to their names. Indian fast bowler Dhawal Kulkarni and West Indies Champions’ Ashley Nurse are placed at number nine and 10, respectively.
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