2022 Legends League Cricket Masters
The 2022 Legends League Cricket Masters or LLC Masters was the first season of Legends League Cricket, a Twenty20 cricket tournament featuring retired players, many of them former internationals.
| Dates | 20 January 2022 – 29 January 2022 |
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| Administrator(s) | Absolute Legends Sports Pvt. Ltd. |
| Cricket format | T20 |
| Tournament format(s) | Double Round robin, Eliminators and Finals |
| Host(s) | Oman |
| Champions | World Giants |
| Runners-up | Asia Lions |
| Participants | 3 |
| Matches | 7 |
| Player of the series | Morne Morkel (World Giants) |
| Most runs | Naman Ojha (India Maharajas) (259) |
| Most wickets | Nuwan Kulasekara (8) (Asia Lions) Morne Morkel (World Giants) (8) |
| Official website | https://www.llct20.com |
For the first edition of the league Virender Sehwag,[1] Misbah ul Haq, and Darren Sammy were announced as the captains of the three teams.[2] The league featured former international players such as Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mohammad Kaif, Sanath Jayasuriya, and Mohammad Yousuf.[3]
Venue
The season was hosted by Oman Cricket at the Oman Cricket Academy Ground.[5][6]
Squads
| India Maharajas | Asia Lions | World Giants |
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Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh missed all matches after testing positive for COVID-19 before the tournament started. Mohammed Kaif led India Maharajas in Sehwag's absence.[7] Daniel Vettori missed the tournament due to COVID-related travel restrictions whilst Yuvraj Singh did not play due to the birth of his child.[8]
The scheduling of the competition clashed with the 2022 Pakistan Super League, resulting in a number of cricketers from Pakistan only playing one or two matches.[9][10]
Points table
Each team played the others twice during the round-robin stage with the top two teams qualifying for the final.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | World Giants | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1.008 |
| 2 | Asia Lions | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.452 |
| 3 | India Maharajas | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −0.437 |
Advanced to the final
Matches
Six group stage matches were played with the two teams with the most points advancing to the final.
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20 January 2022 |
Asia Lions 175/7 (20 overs) |
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India Maharajas 179/4 (19.1 overs) |
India Maharajas won by 6 wickets |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) and Humaira Farah (Pak) Player of the match: Yusuf Pathan (India Maharajas) | ||||
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21 January 2022 |
World Giants 205/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Asia Lions 209/4 (19.2 overs) |
Asia Lions won by 6 wickets |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Humaira Farah (Pak) and Lauren Agenbag (SA) Player of the match: Kevin O'Brien (World Giants) | ||||
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22 January 2022 |
India Maharajas 209/3 (20 overs) |
v |
World Giants 210/7 (19.3 overs) |
World Giants won by 3 wickets |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Lauren Agenbag (SA) and Shubhda Bhosale (Ind) Player of the match: Naman Ojha (India Maharajas) | ||||
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24 January 2022 |
Asia Lions 193/4 (20 overs) |
v |
India Maharajas 157/8 (20 overs) |
Asia Lions won by 36 runs |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Shubhda Bhosle (Ind) and Humaira Farah (Pak) Player of the match: Asghar Afghan (Asia Lions) | ||||
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26 January 2022 |
Asia Lions 149/7 (20 overs) |
v |
World Giants 152/3 (13 overs) |
World Giants won by 7 wickets |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Lauren Agenbag (SA) and Shubhda Bhosale (Ind) Player of the match: Kevin Pietersen (World Giants) | ||||
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27 January 2022 |
World Giants 228/5 (20 overs) |
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India Maharajas 223/7 (20 overs) |
World Giants won by 5 runs |
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18:30 Scorecard |
Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Muscat Umpires: Humaira Farah (Pak) and Lauren Agenbag (SA) Player of the match: Herschelle Gibbs (World Giants) | ||||
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Final
World Giants 256/5 (20 overs) |
v |
Asia Lions 231/8 (20 overs) |
- Asia Lions won the toss and elected to field.
Statistics
- Player of the tournament: Morne Morkel (World Giants)
- Most Runs: Naman Ojha (India Maharajas) (259)
- Most Wickets: Nuwan Kulasekara (Asia Lions) and Morne Morkel (World Giants) (8)
Broadcasters
The competition was broadcast on Sony Pictures Sports Network and Sony Liv in India,[11] on Geo Sports in Pakistan, and Supreme TV in Sri Lanka. Global Audio & Video streaming rights were acquired by Crictracker.[12]
References
- "Sehwag to lead India Maharajas". 18 January 2022.
- "Sehwag, Misbah & Sammy to lead". 18 January 2022.
- "Akhtar, Afridi, Jayasuriya named in Asia Lions". 23 December 2021.
- Staff, CricTracker (3 January 2022). "Legends League Cricket 2022 set to start on January 20, final to be played on January 29". CricTracker. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- "Former Cricket Legends back on the grounds with LLC". The Hindu. 21 January 2022.
- "Legends League Cricket 2022: All You need to know". News 18.
- "Sehwag to miss initial matches of Indian Maharajas, Kaif to lead". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 Jan 2022.
- "Yuvraj, Hazel welcome their first child". Crictracker. 25 January 2022.
- Kumar, P. K. Ajith (22 January 2022). "LLC is a wonderful initiative". The Hindu.
- "Legends League Cricket 2022: Imran Tahir to miss remainder of tournament to take part in PSL 2022". Crictracker. 23 January 2022. Retrieved 24 Jan 2022.
- "Sony Sports Networks acquires India rights for Legends League Cricket". The Mint. 31 December 2021.
- "Crictracker acquires global Audio & Video streaming rights for Legends League Cricket". The Mint. 22 January 2022.