Greater Noida, May 30 (H.S): The African Lions defeated the Asian Kings by 6 wickets in an easy victory on Thursday night at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida during the ongoing Intercontinental Legend League. Winning the toss and opting to bat first, the Asian Kings faced their first blow in the third over with opener Parvez Aziz (8) getting out. However, one end was held up by former Sri Lankan batsman and Lions captain Tillakaratne Dilshan, while wickets continued to fall from the other side. Umang Sharma (31) tried to support him, but under pressure, Dilshan also had to return to the pavilion on a personal score of 26 in the sixth over.

After that, the whole team collapsed, and in the end, Imtiaz managed to score a valuable 35 runs to take the team to a respectable score of 138 runs. Chasing the target under the captaincy of former African great Herschelle Gibbs, African Lions opener Rahul Yadav played a blistering innings of 54 runs, making the match one-sided early on. Following this, Shekhar Sirohi (22), Shivam Sharma (21), and finally Ali Murtaza scored 18 runs in 5 balls, leading the team to an easy win by 6 wickets in 16.4 overs. Chris Mpofu was awarded the Man of the Match for taking 3 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs.

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