New Delhi. Konark Surya Odisha team, captained by Irfan Pathan, lost the game it had won. The team could not score 2 runs on the last ball. The match reached the super over where Kedar Jadhav's team won. Southern Super Stars won the Legends League Cricket 2024 trophy for the first time by defeating Konark Surya Odisha in the final. The title match was very exciting. Yusuf Pathan played an explosive innings for Konark but he could not lead his team to victory. Yusuf was out on the last ball of the match. As long as Yusuf was at the crease, the victory of Irfan Pathan and Company seemed certain but after losing the wicket on the last ball, Yusuf Pathan tied the score.

While chasing the target of 165 runs set by the Southern Super Stars team captained by Kedar Jadhav, Konark Surya Odisha led by Irfan Pathan tied the match by scoring 164 runs for 9 wickets. For Konark, Yusuf Pathan scored 85 runs in 38 balls. He hit 8 sixes and 6 fours. Konark needed only 7 runs in the last over. But the team could not make it. Chaturanga de Silva bowled the last over of the match for Southern Super Stars. Nadeem got one run in the form of leg bye on the first ball. Yusuf Pathan also scored a run on the second ball as a bye. No run on the third ball while Nadeem ran on the fourth ball and took two runs. Nadeem stole a single on the fifth ball. On the sixth and last ball, Kornak needed two runs to win but got only one run and Yusuf Pathan was out. The scores of both the teams were equal and the match was tied.

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Konark Surya Odisha scored 13 runs in the super over.
Konark Surya Odisha scored 13 runs in the super over. Here also Yusuf Pathan hit a six. This was Pathan's ninth six in this match. In reply, Southern Super Stars scored 12 runs in the first two balls with the help of two consecutive sixes from Martin Guptill. After this, the Super Stars dashed the hopes of Irfan Pathan and Company by registering victory on the fifth ball. Irfan's team had been consistently performing well in the tournament but missed the title in the finals.

Martin Guptill became player of the series
For Southern Super Stars team, Hamilton Masakadza scored 83 runs in 58 balls which included 8 fours and five sixes. He was chosen player of the match. Martin Guptill became the player of the series. Guptill scored 27 runs in 25 balls while Pawan Negi was out after scoring 33 runs. Dilshan Munaweera was the most successful bowler for Konark Surya Odisha, taking 4 wickets while conceding 9 runs in 4 overs.

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Top officials of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), including chairman Richard Thompson, have suggested that staging the Champions Trophy without powerhouse India is not an option and there are “contingencies available” if Rohit Sharma’s team doesn’t travel to host country Pakistan. India have not played in Pakistan since 2008 due to the tense relations between the two countries and their travel to the South Asian nation is solely dependent on government clearance. With the government unlikely to give the BCCI permission to send the team to Lahore, the Champions Trophy in a hybrid model seems the most likely option. Like the Asia Cup last year, India can play their matches in a third country while the other games can be staged in Pakistan.

The tournament will be held in February-March.

“It would not be in cricket’s interests for India not to be playing in the Champions Trophy,” Thompson, who is in Pakistan alongside ECB CEO Richard Gould, was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

The decision on India’s travel to Champions Trophy could be taken before current BCCI secretary Jay Shah takes charge of the International Cricket Council in December. Shah was elected as ICC chairman in August.

“It’s interesting, with Jay Shah – the former secretary of the BCCI and now chair of the ICC – (who) is going to have a big role to play in that. There’s geopolitics, and then there’s cricketing geopolitics. I think they’ll find a way. They have to find a way,” said Thompson.

ECB CEO Gould added: “If you play the Champions Trophy without India, or Pakistan, the broadcast rights aren’t there, and we need to protect them.

“They (Pakistan) are the host nation. We’ve seen the developments going on, and we’re all waiting to understand whether India are going to travel. That’s the key.

“We think there are some discussions and relationships where they need to be. I know Pakistan are expecting India to travel. There are lots of different alternatives and contingencies available if that doesn’t happen.” India and Pakistan play each other in multi team events like the World Cup and Asia Cup.

“There are always security concerns in this part of the world when those two countries play each other. That will probably drive the key decisions. But I know relationships between the two countries are as amicable as they can be at the moment: we saw it play out at the (men’s T20) World Cup in New York,” said Thompson.

Though top teams have visited Pakistan recently, the country last hosted an ICC event in 1996, when it co-hosted the ODI World Cup with India and Sri Lanka.

Thompson expects a decision on India’s participation in the tournament would be taken in the 11th hour.

“That’s between India and Pakistan, and I think they will find a way where India will participate in the Champions Trophy… These things tend to go to the wire, as history has shown us, so I think that in those (last) six months, they’ll find a way,” he said.

The event will feature eight teams including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa.

New Delhi. It is about the year 2019. Australia's cricket team was going through a crisis in those days. In this crisis, he remembered a batsman who had not played a single test match till then. Australia called him for the Test series against Sri Lanka. The batsman also did not disappoint and scored runs at an average of 144.00 in the series. But despite this excellent performance, Kurtis Patterson was forgotten. The 31 year old cricketer is still waiting for his call from the Australian team.

Kurtis Patterson has played only two matches in his Test career. He scored 30 runs in his first Test match played against Sri Lanka in Brisbane. After this, a week later, he played an inning of 114 runs in the second test match and was not out till the end. In this way, Kurtis Patterson scored 144 runs in two innings of two matches at an average of 144. This is the highest average of any batsman in Test history. However, Patterson did not get the respect for this performance that he deserved. Australia did not include Patterson in its team for the next series (Ashes). Since then he has been waiting to return to the team.

Don Bradman has been the standard of batting in Test cricket for almost 100 years. Bradman scored 6996 runs in 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 at an average of 99.94. This is the world record for the highest average (minimum 10 matches) in Test history. But if we remove the condition of minimum matches then Kurtis Patterson surpasses Don Bradman in terms of average. Even Bradman is not at second place. Albert Edwin Trott (102.50) is at second place in this matter. Bradman's number comes only after Patterson and Trott.

After these records, a question may arise in the minds of cricket lovers whether Kurtis Patterson can return in the series between India and Australia. It is difficult to answer this in yes or no. But it can be said that its possibility is negligible. There are two reasons for this. First- Australia's batting order is largely fixed at the moment and Patterson does not see any role in it. The second reason is Patterson's poor form. Patterson has played two first-class matches in October, in which his innings have been 13, 4, and 10 respectively.

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