Delhi: In the first match of the World Championship of Legends 2026, India Champions have started their campaign with a bang at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. On the basis of captain Yuvraj Singh's explosive inning of 71 runs and then the brilliant performance of the bowlers led by Dhawal Kulkarni, India Champions defeated Australia Champions by 46 runs and registered their first win in the tournament.

Yuvi-Yusuf created havoc with the bat

Indian Champions, who came to bat first after losing the toss, did not have a good start. In the very first over, Ambati Rayudu returned to the pavilion after scoring 4 runs on the ball of Ben Hilfenhaus. After this, Stuart Binny showed some good hands by scoring 13 runs and Naman Ojha scored 31 runs, but by the score of 75 runs, India had lost 3 wickets.

From here, the old 'Sixer King' style of captain Yuvraj Singh was seen on the field. Taking the Australian bowlers seriously, Yuvi played a stormy inning of 71 runs in just 44 balls with the help of 5 fours and 6 sky-high sixes.

He was well supported by Yusuf Pathan, who scored 37 runs in just 20 balls with the help of 1 four and 4 sixes. There was an aggressive partnership of 83 runs between the two for the fourth wicket.

In the end Rishi Dhawan also gave a brilliant finish. He scored unbeaten 35 runs with the help of 1 four and 4 sixes in just 12 balls. Thanks to this stormy innings of Rishi, India Champions scored a huge score of 196 runs for 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. For Australia, Ben Laughlin, Ben Hilfenhaus and Fawad Ahmed took 2 wickets each.

D'Arcy Short played a stormy innings

The Australian champions, who were chasing the big target of 197 runs, got a shock in the very first over, when captain Usman Khawaja was caught by Ambati Rayudu off the ball of Mohit Sharma without opening the account. After this, D'Arcy Short counter-attacked the Indian bowlers and hit sharp shots in the powerplay.

Short scored 65 runs in just 28 balls with the help of 4 fours and 7 sixes. Along with Joe Burns, he took Australia's score beyond 100 runs. Burns played an innings of 45 runs in 32 balls.

But in the 9th over, as soon as Dhawal Kulkarni showed D'Arcy Short the way to the pavilion, the Australian batting fell apart like a house of cards.

After losing the third wicket for 102 runs, Australia lost its wickets at regular intervals.

Kangaroo team all out for 150 runs, India Champions win by 46 runs

In the middle order, Callum Ferguson and Nathan Coulter-Nile could not even open the account, while Kane Richardson was out after scoring only 4 runs. The Indian bowlers bowled tightly and did not give any opportunity to the Australian batsmen to play freely.

Dhawal Kulkarni bowled lethally and took 4 wickets for 44 runs in 4 overs.

Mohit Sharma also supported him well and took 3 wickets, while Piyush Chawla got 2 wickets and Harbhajan Singh got 1 wicket.

The entire Australian team collapsed for 150 runs in 16.2 overs. In this way, India Champions won the match by a huge margin of 46 runs and started the tournament with victory.