World Champions Of Legends 2025: The first match of WCL 2025 is being played between Pakistan and England. Batting first, Pakistan has set a target of 161 runs in front of England.

England vs Pakistan: World Championship of Legends 2025 has begun. The first match of this league is being played between the England Champions and Pakistan Champions. In this match being played at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. Pakistan's team came out to bat first. In this match, Pakistan did not play star cricketer Shahid Afridi. Captain Mohammad Hafeez's half-century and Aamer Yamin's rapid batting have set a target of 161 runs in front of England.

Pakistan scored 160 runs.

Kamran Akmal and Sharjeel Khan came to bat as openers for Pakistan Champions. Pakistan lost the first two wickets at a score of 27 runs. In this match, star player Shoaib Malik was out after scoring just one run. But captain Mohammad Hafeez played a blistering innings of 54 runs in 34 balls. Hafeez hit 8 fours in this innings.

Pakistan's innings could have been wrapped up under 150 runs, but Sohail Khan and Amer Yamin's brilliant batting added 22 runs in the last over. Sohail Khan hit a six on the first ball of the 20th over. Yamin hit sixes on the third and fourth balls and took the team's score to 160.

England's strong bowling

England completely controlled the match for 19 overs of the first innings. The bowlers took 9 wickets of Pakistan. Chris Tremlett and Liam Plunkett took the most wickets for England. Both these bowlers took 2-2 wickets. Stuart Meaker, Ryan Sidebottom, James Vince and Dimitrios Mascarenhas took 1-1 wickets. Now England has to chase a target of 161 runs to win.

Shahid Afridi was not fed

Pakistan champions did not play their star player Shahid Afridi in the match against England. This player was out of Pakistan's playing eleven.