Road Safety World Series: Sachin's India Legends beat Jonty's South Africa Legends

The Road Safety World Series kicked off on Saturday here between India Legends and South Africa Legends. The India Legends team led by Sachin Tendulkar defeated South Africa Legends led by Jonty Rhodes by 61 runs. Sunday will see a doubleheader between Bangladesh Legends and West indies Legend the second match will be between Australia Legends and Sri Lanka Legends, here.

India Legends won the toss and elected to bat. Got off to a great start with little master rolling back years. Showed why he is the god of cricket. Having set a massive target of 217/4 in their 20 years, the South Africa Legends started their innings strongly with both their openers Andrew Puttick and Morne van Wyk playing steadily and carefully.

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But the star of the innings was Stuart Bunny. The Player is a blinder of an innings scoring 82 runs off just 42 balls. Binny was well supported by Yusuf Pathan, who scored a quickfire 35 runs off 15 balls. Rahul Sharma provided the first breakthrough with Morne van Wyk’s wicket and post that no one could make a dent with their batting apart from the captain Jonty Rhodes, who stood not out at 38 at the end of the innings.

Having set a massive target of 217/4 in their 20 years, the South Africa Legends started their innings strongly with both their openers Andrew Puttick and Morne van Wyk playing steadily and carefully.

The India Legends bowl well restricting South Africa Legends to 156/9. Rahul Sharma was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets and gave only 17 runs in his 4 overs. Munaf Patel and Pragyan Ojha both ended with 2 wickets each. India legends won the game convincingly and Stuart Binny was the player of the match.