{"id":82122,"date":"2025-08-03T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82122"},"modified":"2025-08-03T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:53:47","slug":"south-africa-crowned-legends-championship-with-dominant-win-over-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-africa-crowned-legends-championship-with-dominant-win-over-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa crowned legends championship with dominant win over Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: South Africa defeated Pakistan by nine wickets in the final of the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/india-triumphs-over-pakistan-in-world-legends-championship\/\"> Legends World Championship<\/a> thanks to a brilliant performance by legend AB de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a tough target of 196, South Africa completed the chase in just 16.5 overs thanks to a brilliant unbeaten century by de Villiers, who scored an unbeaten 120 off 60 balls. His explosive innings included 12 fours and 7 sixes, to which Pakistan\u2019s bowlers had no answer.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting de Villiers at the other end was JP Duminy, who played a key role by scoring an unbeaten 50 off 28 balls, as the two put on a match-winning partnership to secure the title.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan had scored 195 for 5 in the allotted 20 overs. Sharjeel Khan provided a strong start by playing a brilliant innings of 76 runs while Umar Amin played an innings of 36 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Pakistan&#8217;s strong batting efforts, it was not enough to stop the South African team led by its experienced stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: South Africa defeated Pakistan by nine wickets in the final of the Legends World Championship thanks to a brilliant performance by legend AB de Villiers. Chasing a tough target of 196, South Africa completed the chase in just 16.5 overs thanks to a brilliant unbeaten century by de Villiers, who scored an unbeaten 120 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":82123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2599,30490],"class_list":["post-82122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-south-africa","tag-legends-world-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82122","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82124,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82122\/revisions\/82124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}