In the first match of The Hundred League 2026, MI London defeated Sunrisers Leeds by 7 wickets. Nicholas Pooran and Sam Curran played explosive innings, while Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed's debut proved costly.
In the thrilling first match of The Hundred League 2026, MI London defeated Sunrisers Leeds by 7 wickets. In this match, Sunrisers batted first and scored 143 runs in 99 balls.
In response, MI London achieved the target in just 84 balls, losing only 3 wickets, thanks to the explosive innings of captain Sam Curran and Nicholas Pooran.
Chasing the target, MI London had a poor start. Will Jacks (2) and James Vince (0) returned to the pavilion early.
After that, captain Sam Curran played a brilliant innings of 60 runs. Meanwhile, Nicholas Pooran turned the match around by scoring 58 runs off just 22 balls, leading the team to victory with 16 balls to spare.
In this match, Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed made his debut for Kavya Maran's team, Sunrisers Leeds. However, his debut was not a memorable one.
Abrar conceded 30 runs in his 10 balls. With the bat, he scored 7 runs off 3 balls with the help of one six.
During MI London's innings, when Abrar Ahmed came to bowl, he was hit for three sixes in one of his sets.
On his first ball, Sam Curran hit a six over mid-wicket. Later, Nicholas Pooran sealed the victory for his team by hitting two consecutive sixes on the 74th and 75th balls.
After losing the toss and batting first, Sunrisers Leeds got a good start from Mitchell Marsh (41) and Ryan Rickelton (25).
Later, Zak Crawley scored 29 runs off 11 balls and Tom Alsop scored 31 runs off 18 balls to take the team to a score of 143. Harry Brook could only manage 8 runs.
For MI London, fast bowler Richard Gleeson bowled brilliantly, taking 4 wickets in 19 balls. Captain Sam Curran got 2 wickets, while Rashid Khan took 1 wicket. Rohit Sharma was also present in the stadium to watch the match.
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