{"id":81813,"date":"2025-07-30T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=81813"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:28:19","slug":"wcl-2025-india-to-face-pakistan-in-semi-final-after-skipping-group-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/wcl-2025-india-to-face-pakistan-in-semi-final-after-skipping-group-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"WCL 2025: India to face Pakistan in semi-final after skipping group clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON: The Indian Legends team, which refused to play against the Green Shirts in the first leg of the World Championship of Legends 2025<\/a>, will now face Pakistan in the semi-finals of the event.<\/p>\n

In the crucial match of the World Championship of Legends ongoing in England<\/a> on Tuesday, the Indian champions defeated the West Indies champions to qualify for the semi-finals of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Playing first, the West Indies set a target of 145 runs for the Indian Legends in the allotted 20 overs.<\/p>\n

India needed to complete this target within 14.1 overs so that they could qualify for the semi-finals on the basis of a better run rate.<\/p>\n

However, a brilliant half-century by Stuart Binny led the Indin side to achieve the target in 13.2 overs for the loss of 5 wickets and also became the fourth and last team to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, the Pakistan champions defeated the Australian champions by 10 wickets to take first position on the points table.<\/p>\n

Australia and South Africa had already qualified for the semi-finals. After India’s win, the semi-final lineup was completed.<\/p>\n

Now, in the first semi-final of the event, the top team in the points table, Pakistan, and the fourth-ranked India will face each other on July 31.<\/p>\n

The second semi-final of the event will be between South Africa and Australia on the same day.<\/p>\n

Notably, the Pakistan-India clash in the first phase of the World Championship of Legends 2025 was canceled. Indian players refused to play the match against Pakistan.<\/p>\n

According to sources, Indian cricketers Shikhar Dhawan, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, and Harbhajan Singh opposed playing the match against Pakistan, due to Shahid Afridi’s inclusion in the playing XI.<\/p>\n

Following that, a statement was issued by the tournament organizers, and regret was expressed over the cancellation of the match between Pakistan and India.<\/p>\n

However, it now remains to be seen whether the Indian players will face Pakistan in the semi-finals of the event or refuse to play against the Green Shirts once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON: The Indian Legends team, which refused to play against the Green Shirts in the first leg of the World Championship of Legends 2025, will now face Pakistan in the semi-finals of the event. In the crucial match of the World Championship of Legends ongoing in England on Tuesday, the Indian champions defeated the West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30425],"class_list":["post-81813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-wcl-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81815,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81813\/revisions\/81815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}