LLC 2024 Final: Konark Surya won the final by defeating Odisha in the Super Over, Southern Superstars became the champion of Legends League Cricket, Video

Cricket News Desk. In a thrilling finale, the southern superstars lifted the Legends League Cricket 2024 title. They defeated Konark Surya Odisha in the Super Over at the Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on Thursday. Konark Surya Odisha won the toss and decided to bowl first.

Southern Superstars scored 164 runs

Srivatsa Goswami and Martin Guptill started the innings for Southern Superstars. He soon suffered a blow when Goswami was out to Divesh Pathania without scoring any runs. After this, Guptill got the support of Hamilton Masakadza in the middle. Both added 76 runs for the second wicket. After which Guptill was out after scoring 27 runs in 25 balls. Masakadja and Pawan Negi added 68 runs for the third wicket. Masakadja scored 83 runs on 58 balls while Pawan Negi scored 33 runs on 24 balls.

Chaturanga de Silva scored 9 runs in 8 balls. At the end of the innings they scored 164/6 runs in 20 overs. Dilshan Munaweera was the most effective bowler for Konark Sun Odisha, registering figures of 4/9 in 3 overs. Divesh Pathania (1/19) and Irfan Pathan (1/22) took one wicket each.

Yusuf Pathan played explosive innings like old days

Richard Levi and Dilshan Munaweera opened the innings for Konark Surya Odisha while chasing the target of 165 runs. Munaweera scored 11 runs on 9 balls while Levi added 16 runs on 11 balls. Kevin O'Brien added 17 runs in 24 balls. Then the magic of Yusuf Pathan was seen in the match. He single-handedly took the game to the last ball by scoring 85 runs in 38 balls.
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2 runs were needed on the last ball, Yusuf could score only one run and was run out. Konark Surya Odisha scored 164 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. For Southern Superstars, Hamid Hasan (2/28), Abdur Razak (2/31), Chaturanga de Silva (2/19) and Pawan Negi (2/32) took two wickets each in the innings.

What happened in the super over?

When the match was tied and went into super over, Konark Surya Odisha batted first. Yusuf Pathan and Irfan Pathan batted for Konark Surya Odisha. He scored 14 runs off 6 balls, which included a six from Yusuf and a four off the bat of Richard Levi.

Martin Guptill and Pawan Negi came to bat for Southern Superstars chasing the target of 14 runs. Guptill won the match by hitting two consecutive sixes on the first two balls. However, Divesh Pathania took the wicket of Guptill. But Southern Superstars achieved the target 5 balls earlier.