Lahore
South Africa Champions defeated the Pakistan Champions to win the World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025 tournament. The South African team won by 9 wickets in the final played at Edgbaston ground in Birmingham on 2 August (Sunday). South Africa Champions had a target of 196 runs to win, which he achieved in 16.5 overs.
South Africa Champions was the hero veteran batsman AB de Villiers of the winning win. AB de Villiers scored an unbeaten 120, facing 60 balls, including 12 fours and seven sixes. De Villiers was elected ‘Player of the Match’ and ‘Player of the Series’.
After the defeat of Pakistan Champions in the final, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken a big decision. The PCB has now banned the participation of the Pakistani team in the World Championship of Legends tournament in the near future. The board says that the attitude of the organizers of the tournament remained biased and double standard, especially the way WCL reacted after being removed from the semi -finals of India Champions.
What else was said by the board?
The statement issued by the board said, “PCB reviewed the condemnable functioning of WCL in its 79th Governing Board meeting held under the chairmanship of Mosin Naqvi. In the tournament, the tournament deliberately gave points to the team, which was against the basic principles of sports and fairness. The WCL’s behalf was against the public and the ‘Sports’ in the press releases in the press releases and the ‘sports through the play’ Was distorted. “
Let us know that the controversy in the WCL started when India Legends refused to play the league against Pakistan at Edgbaston ground in Birmingham. After this, in the semi-finals, India Champions and Pakistan Champions were scheduled to face face to face, but the Indian team withdrew its name from the match. Due to this, the Pakistani team reached the final.
Several members of the board were involved in the meeting held by PCB. These included the names of Sumair Ahmed Syed, Salman Naseer, Zaheer Abbas, Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Sajjad Ali Khokhar, Zafarullah Jadgal, Tanveer Ahmed, Tariq Sarwar, Mohammad Ismail Qureshi, Anwar Ahmed Khan, Adnan Malik, Usman Wahala and Mir Hasan Naqvi.
