2022 Legends League Cricket

2022 Legends League Cricket

Dates	16 September – 5 October 2022
Administrator(s)	Absolute Legends Sports Pvt. Ltd.
Cricket format	T20
Tournament format(s)	Double round-robin, Eliminator, and Final
Host(s)	India
Champions	India Capitals
Runners-up	Bhilwara Kings
Participants	4
Matches	16
Player of the series	Yusuf Pathan (Bhilwara Kings)
Most runs	William Porterfield (267) (Bhilwara Kings)
Most wickets	Pravin Tambe (11) (India Capitals)
Official website	llct20.com
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The 2022 Legends League Cricket, or LLC Season 1, was the inaugural season of the Legends League Cricket Franchise event, hosted in India. The tournament was exclusively for retired cricket players. It brought together former international and domestic cricket players to step on the field. ^[1]

The season was held in India between 16 September to 5 October 2022. The League featured four teams - India Capitals, Gujarat Giants, Bhilwara Kings, and Manipal Tigers. ^[2]

The tournament was won by India Capitals, who beat the Bhilwara Kings in the final. ^[3]

Venue

The matches were played in six different cities - Kolkata, Lucknow, Delhi, Cuttack, Jodhpur, and Jaipur. ^[4]

The qualifiers were played in Jodhpur, and the final match was played in Jaipur.

Kolkata	Lucknow	Delhi	Cuttack	Jodhpur	Jaipur
Eden Gardens Capacity: 66,000 Matches: 2	Ekana Stadium Capacity: 50,000 Matches: 3	Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium Capacity: 41,842 Matches: 3	Barabati Stadium Capacity: 45,000 Matches: 3	Barkatullah Khan Stadium Capacity: 30,000 Matches: 4	Sawai Mansingh Stadium Capacity: 30,000 Matches: 1 (Final)

Special match

A special commemorative match was played between India Maharajas and World Giants to honor the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration marking the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. ^[5] The match was played on September 16, 2022, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. ^[6]

Teams

The following teams and their owners were announced as taking part in the tournament:

Team	Owner	Captain	Coach
Bhilwara Kings	LNJ Bhilwara Group [7]	Irfan Pathan	Lalchand Rajput [8]
Gujarat Giants	Adani Sportsline	Virender Sehwag	Venkatesh Prasad [9]
India Capitals	GMR Group	Gautam Gambhir	Pravin Amre [10]
Manipal Tigers	Manipal Education and Medical Group	Harbhajan Singh	John Buchanan [11]

Squads

Squads for the main tournament were selected through a draft which took place on 2 September 2022. ^{[12] [13]}

Bhilwara Kings	India Capitals	Gujarat Giants	Manipal Tigers
Irfan Pathan (c) Yusuf Pathan Monty Panesar Naman Ojha (wk) William Porterfield Fidel Edwards Samit Patel Matt Prior (wk) Nick Compton S. Sreesanth Shane Watson Tim Bresnan Owais Shah Tino Best Sudeep Tyagi Tanmay Srivastava Dinesh Salunkhe Rajesh Bishnoi Jesal Karia Rahul Sharma Dhammika Prasad Morné van Wyk	Gautam Gambhir (c) Dwayne Smith Pravin Tambe Denesh Ramdin (wk) Asghar Afghan Mitchell Johnson Liam Plunkett Rajat Bhatia Hamilton Masakadza Mashrafe Mortaza John Mooney Prosper Utseya Ross Taylor Jacques Kallis Farveez Maharoof Pankaj Singh Solomon Mire Ashley Nurse Suhail Sharma Praveen Gupta Pawan Suyal	Virender Sehwag (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Chris Gayle Parthiv Patel (wk) Ajantha Mendis Manvinder Bisla Lendl Simmons Mitchell McClenaghan Stuart Binny Kevin O'Brien Daniel Vettori Ashok Dinda Joginder Sharma Graeme Swann Richard Levi Chris Tremlett Elton Chigumbura K. P. Appanna Yashpal Singh Rayad Emrit Sreenath Aravind	Harbhajan Singh (c) Brett Lee Daren Sammy Imran Tahir Corey Anderson Phil Mustard (wk) Mohammad Kaif Ryan Sidebottom Lance Klusener Dimitri Mascarenhas Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Reetinder Sodhi Parvinder Awana VRV Singh Swapnil Asnodkar Ravikant Shukla Pardeep Sahu Ricardo Powell Tatenda Taibu Christopher Mpofu

Points table

A total of 12 league matches were played in a double round robin format with each team playing against every other team twice. Of the four teams, the top three teams that qualified for the playoffs. ^[14]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India Capitals	6	3	2	1	7	1.001
2	Bhilwara Kings	6	3	2	1	7	−0.142
3	Gujarat Giants	6	2	3	1	5	−0.366
4	Manipal Tigers	6	2	3	1	5	−0.467

Source: ESPNcricinfo

•   Qualified for the playoffs

Matches

League stage

Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration special match

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16 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

World Giants 170/8 (20 overs)	v	India Maharajas 175/4 (18.4 overs)
Kevin O'Brien 52 (31) Pankaj Singh 5/26 (4 overs)		Tanmay Srivastava 54 (39) Tim Bresnan 3/21 (3 overs)

India Maharajas won by 6 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Gayatri Venugopalan (Ind) and Kim Cotton (NZ) Player of the match: Pankaj Singh (India Maharajas)

• World Giants won the toss and elected to bat.

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Round 1

Match 1 17 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

India Capitals 179/7 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Giants 180/7 (18.4 overs)
Ashley Nurse 103* (43) Thisara Perera 2/16 (3 overs)		Kevin O'Brien 107 (61) Liam Plunkett 2/23 (3 overs)

Gujarat Giants won by 3 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) and Kim Cotton (NZ) Player of the match: Ashley Nurse (India Capitals)

• Gujarat Giants won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 2 18 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Manipal Tigers 153/7 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 156/7 (19.4 overs)
Mohammad Kaif 73 (59) Fidel Edwards 4/30 (4 overs)		Yusuf Pathan 44 (28) Ryan Sidebottom 3/38 (4 overs)

Bhilwara Kings won by 3 wickets Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Shivani Mishra (Qat) and Gayathrii Venugopal (Ind) Player of the match: Fidel Edwards (Bhilwara Kings)

• Bhilwara Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 3 19 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Manipal Tigers 120/8 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Giants 121/8 (17.2 overs)
Ravikant Shukla 32 (32) Tillakaratne Dilshan 2/18 (2 overs)		Parthiv Patel 34 (17) Muthiah Muralidaran 2/10 (2.2 overs)

Gujarat Giants won by 2 wickets Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) Player of the match: Parthiv Patel (Gujarat Giants)

• Gujarat Giants won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 4 21 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

India Capitals 198/5 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 120 (19.2 overs)
Solomon Mire 82 (38) Yusuf Pathan 3/28 (4 overs)		Tanmay Srivastava 27* (30) Rajat Bhatia 2/6 (1.2 overs)

India Capitals won by 78 runs Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Shivani Mishra (Qat) and Gayathrii Venugopal (Ind) Player of the match: Solomon Mire (India Capitals)

• Bhilwara Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 5 22 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Gujarat Giants	v	Manipal Tigers

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) and Kim Cotton (NZ)

• No toss.

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Match 6 24 September 2022 19:30 Scorecard

India Capitals	v	Bhilwara Kings

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Shivani Mishra (Qat) and Gayathrii Venugopal (Ind)

• No toss.

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Round 2

Match 7 25 September 2022 16:00 Scorecard

Gujarat Giants 152/7 (20 overs)	v	India Capitals 153/4 (18.5 overs)
Tillakaratne Dilshan 75* (59) Ashley Nurse 2/28 (4 overs)		Hamilton Masakadza 50 (34) Ajantha Mendis 2/26 (4 overs)

India Capitals won by 6 wickets Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) Player of the match: Hamilton Masakadza (India Capitals)

• India Capitals won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 8 26 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Manipal Tigers 175/8 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 172/9 (20 overs)
Tatenda Taibu 54 (30) Tino Best 3/20 (3 overs)		Yusuf Pathan 42 (21) Dilhara Fernando 4/31 (4 overs)

Manipal Tigers won by 3 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Shivani Mishra (Qat) and Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) Player of the match: Dilhara Fernando (Manipal Tigers)

• Bhilwara Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 9 27 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Bhilwara Kings 222/4 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Giants 165 (19.4 overs)
William Porterfield 64 (33) Graeme Swann 1/34 (4 overs)		Yashpal Singh 57 (29) Sreesanth 3/36 (4 overs)

Bhilwara Kings won by 57 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Shivani Mishra (Qat) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: William Porterfield (Bhilwara KIngs)

• Gujarat Giants won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 10 29 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Manipal Tigers 161/5 (20 overs)	v	India Capitals 162/3 (17.2 overs)
Jesse Ryder 79 (56) Liam Plunkett 2/31 (4 overs)		Hamilton Masakadza 68* (39) Muthiah Muralidaran 1/15 (4 overs)

India Capitals won by 7 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Narayanan Janani (Ind) and Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) Player of the match: Hamilton Masakadza (India Capitals)

• India Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
• India Capitals qualified for the playoffs as a result of this match. ^[15]

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Match 11 30 September 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Gujarat Giants 186/7 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 187/5 (19.4 overs)
Chris Gayle 68 (40) Yusuf Pathan 2/34 (2 overs)		William Porterfield 40 (37) Graeme Swann 2/21 (3 overs)

Bhilwara Kings won by 5 wickets Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: Yusuf Pathan (Bhilwara Kings)

• Bhilwara Kings win toss and elected to field.
• Bhilwara Kings qualified for the playoffs as a result of this match. ^[16]

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Match 12 1 October 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

India Capitals 183/2 (20 overs)	v	Manipal Tigers 186/7 (20 overs)
Denesh Ramdin 64 (51) Corey Anderson 1/11 (2.1 overs)		Ricardo Powell 96 (52) John Mooney 2/39 (4 overs)

Manipal Tigers won by 3 wickets Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: Ricardo Powell (Manipal Tigers)

• Manipal Tigers won the toss and elected to field.
• Gujarat Giants qualified for the playoffs and Manipal Tigers were eliminated as a result of this match.

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Play-offs

Qualifier

Eliminator

Final

1

India Capitals

231/6 (19.3 overs)

1

India Capitals

211/7 (20 overs)

2

Bhilwara Kings

226/5 (20 overs)

2

Bhilwara Kings

107 (18.2 overs)

3

Gujarat Giants

194/9 (20 overs)

2

Bhilwara Kings

195/4 (18.3 overs)

Qualifier 2 October 2022 16:00 Scorecard

Bhilwara Kings 226/5 (20 overs)	v	India Capitals 231/6 (19.3 overs)
Shane Watson 65 (39) Mitchell Johnson 2/51 (4 overs)		Ross Taylor 84 (39) Fidel Edwards 2/54 (4 overs)

India Capitals won by 4 wickets Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (India Capitals)

• Bhilwara Kings won the toss and elected to bat.

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Eliminator 3 October 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Gujarat Giants 194/9 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 195/4 (18.3 overs)
Kevin O'Brien 45 (24) S. Sreesanth 2/28 (4 overs)		William Porterfield 60 (43) Sreenath Arvind 2/48 (4 overs)

Bhilwara Kings won by 6 wickets Barkatullah Khan Stadium, Jodhpur Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: William Porterfield (Bhilwara Kings)

• Gujarat Giants won the toss and chose to bat.

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Final

5 October 2022 19:30 (N) Scorecard

India Capitals 211/7 (20 overs)	v	Bhilwara Kings 107 (18.2 overs)
Ross Taylor 82 (41) Rahul Sharma 4/30 (4 overs)		Shane Watson 27 (19) Pankaj Singh 2/14 (3 overs)

India Capitals won by 104 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Narayanan Janani (Ind) Player of the match: Ross Taylor (India Capitals)

• Bhilwara Kings won the toss and elected to field.
• India Capitals became the champions of the 1st season of Legends League Cricket franchise event.

Statistics

• Player of the tournament: Yusuf Pathan (Bhilwara Kings)
• Leading Run Scorer: William Porterfield (267 runs) (Bhilwara Kings)
• Leading Wicket-Taker: Pravin Tambe (11 wickets) (India Capitals) ^[17]

Broadcasters

The league was broadcast on the leading Star Sports Network, which acquired the rights for the Indian territory. ^[18]

References

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo
• Official website