{"id":81835,"date":"2025-07-30T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=81835"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:33:57","slug":"india-pulls-back-from-facing-pakistan-yet-again-in-wcl-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-pulls-back-from-facing-pakistan-yet-again-in-wcl-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"India pulls back from facing Pakistan yet again in WCL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: India yet again pulls back from facing Pakistan in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-champions-into-final-after-thrashing-west-indies-in-wcl-2024-semi-final\/\">semi-final<\/a> match of the World Championship of Legends 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"428\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Indian opener <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/varun-dhawan-recalls-fun-times-of-having-a-crush-on-tennis-star-sania-mirza\/\">Shikhar Dhawan<\/a> reaffirmed the team&#8217;s stance of not playing against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"428\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Tomorrow, the semi-final is scheduled to take place in Birmingham. Pakistan will go straight to the final if India withdraws.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"428\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Earlier, 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.<\/p>\n<p>In the crucial match of the World Championship of Legends ongoing in\u00a0England\u00a0on Tuesday, the Indian champions defeated the West Indies champions to qualify for the semi-finals of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Playing first, the West Indies set a target of 145 runs for the Indian Legends in the allotted 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: India yet again pulls back from facing Pakistan in the semi-final match of the World Championship of Legends 2025. Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan reaffirmed the team&#8217;s stance of not playing against Pakistan. Tomorrow, the semi-final is scheduled to take place in Birmingham. Pakistan will go straight to the final if India withdraws. Earlier, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30436,30425],"class_list":["post-81835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-semi-finals","tag-wcl-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81835","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=81835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81839,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81835\/revisions\/81839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}