In the World Championship of Legends, it seemed that the army of retired Indian players would wear the winning cloak against the Australian Champions after their defeat against the Pakistani Champions. But this could not happen. Just one Australian player ruined all their planning. He created havoc by hitting with the bat. In his innings of just 33 balls, he hit so many sixes that all the batsmen of the Indian Champions together could not hit even half of it. The difference in the number of sixes between the two teams became the reason for the defeat of the Indian Champions at the hands of the Australian Champions in WCL 2024.

In the match played on 8th July in Northampton, Australia Champions batting first scored 199 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. The all-rounder who has previously been a part of RCB's team in IPL played a big role in helping Australia Champions reach such a big target. We are talking about Daniel Christian, who rained runs in 33 balls. And, this rain of runs was not possible without boundaries, in which he hit fewer fours and more than twice as many sixes.

33 ball innings, more sixes than fours

Daniel Christian scored 69 runs in 33 balls at a strike rate of 209.09 for Australia Champions.

During this, he hit 7 sixes, while he hit only 3 fours. This stormy innings of Daniel Christian was ended by Dhawal Kulkarni, who got him caught by Harbhajan. Apart from Christian, 3 more sixes were seen from the bat of Ben Cutting in the Australian innings. He scored an unbeaten 24 runs in 13 balls. It is only due to such explosive innings that the platoon of retired Australian players was able to set a target of 200 runs in front of India Champions.

Yusuf Pathan also tried to explode but it did not work!

Now, after facing such a big target, India Champions were bound to explode.

So, Irfan Pathan did not open the innings in this match but his elder brother Yusuf Pathan definitely performed in the middle order. Yusuf Pathan left behind the failure of the last 3 innings in the tournament and scored 78 runs in 48 balls at a strike rate of 162.50 against Australia Champions. The elder Pathan's innings included 11 fours and 1 six. Apart from Yusuf Pathan, another six was seen in the Indian innings from the bat of Pawan Negi.

Where are 10 sixes and where are just 2, we were bound to lose!

Now Australia had hit 10 sixes and India Champions hit only 2.

This number of sixes drew the line of victory and defeat between the two teams. However, if India could not hit a six, then the role of Australia Champions' bowlers cannot be denied in this. Not only this, they put such a rein that India Champions' car could not go beyond 176 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In this way India lost the match by 23 runs. This is India Champions' second consecutive defeat in WCL 2024.

Daniel Christian alone was the burden!

Daniel Christian had already played an explosive innings with the bat.

With the ball too, he took a big wicket of India Champions captain Yuvraj Singh. Daniel Christian was chosen as the Player of the Match for his brilliant performance in the match and leading the team to victory.