T10 League: Northern Warriors vs Punjabi Legends Live Score, Match Updates & Commentary

Welcome to the Live coverage of the eighth match of the 2018 T10 league between Warriors and Legends

Updated: 23 November 2018 23:48 IST - Published: 23 November 2018 12:54 IST

So that's it from us today. The Warriors move to the second position in the points table. Do join us tomorrow at 8:00 PM IST for the live coverage of Sindhis vs Pakhtoons. Until then, see ya goodbye.

Nicholas Pooran is the Man of the Match for his brilliant 77 off 25 balls.

Presentation in a few minutes.

Dream outing for Northern Warriors and an embarassing performance from Punjabi Legends. The bowlers from the Punjabi Legends team looked clueless against some unbelievable power hitting from the Carribean duo of Andre Russell and Nicholas Pooran. On the other hand, the Northern Warriors bowler's used their variations to good effect and never allowed the Legends to run away with the chase.

Northern warriors defeat Punjabi Legends by 99 runs.

8 off the last over and Bopara finishes with incredible figures of 2-0-15-4.
Legends 84-7 after 10 overs.

Bopara to bowl the last over. The Legends are staring at a humiliating defeat.

9 off that over. Anwar Ali managed a four off the last ball. 108 required off 6 balls.
Legends 76-6 after 9 overs.

Viljoen to bowl the penultimate over.

Riaz dismisses the last ball of the over to the fine leg boundary. Legends will be looking to lower the defeat margin with a few late blows.
Legends 63-6 after 8 overs.

Legends are just falling apart here. Three wickets from that over and the highlight was Russell's magnificent leap to dismiss Shaiman Anwar.
Legends 54-6 after 7 overs.

Out! Umar Akmal tries to hit one over midwicket but did not get the desired timing on that shot and holes out to the fielder at the boundary.
Umar Akmal C Chris Green B Bopara 3(7).

Another quite over. It looks like the Legends will try to play out the 10 overs and salvage some pride.
Legends 47-3 after 6 overs.

No boundaries for the second consecutive over. How rare is that in this format of the game?Warriors looking at an easy victory here.
Legends 39-3 after 5 overs

Out! Viljoen strikes. This match just keeps getting worse for Legends. Another one gone and it will take an absolute miracle from here for the Legends to win this match.
Tom Moores B Viljoen 2(6).

Just 3 off that over. This chase is going nowhere and Warriors have completely dominated this match upto this moment.
Legends 33-2 after 4 overs.

OUT! uncharacteristic knock from Ronchi. Never really got going throught his innings and finally holes out to the deep point fielder.
Luke Ronchi C Amitoze Singh B Wahab Riaz 14(14)

12 runs from that over. Green was once again spot on with his line and length.He ends his quota with great figures of 2-0-15-1.
Punjabi Legends 30-1 after 3 overs.

Out! bizarre dismissal. Lewis misses a yorker and the ball ricochets onto the stumps after hitting the keeper's pad. Replays showed that Lewis was off balance and his leg was hanging in the air.
Evin Lewis St Pooran B Chris Green 10(5).

Six! Lewis spoils a great over from Russell with a superb pickup shot. Still only 9 runs off it.
Punjabi Legends 18-0 after 2 overs.

Andre Russell comes into the attack.

Great over from Chris Green. Bowled a beautiful stump to stump line and conceded just 8 runs.
Punjabi Legends 8-0 after 1 over.

Right the chase begins. Evin Lewis and Luke Ronchi to open the batting. Warriors start with a spinner. Chris green to operate from round the wicket.

Phew! 19 sixes in that innings. Pooran played an absolute blinder up front and Russell applied the final touch nicely. Punjabi Legends face an uphill task here. They need to be relentless from ball one to win this match. Back in a few minutes for the chase.

Six! My word! Russell ends the innings with a mighty slog to the cow corner. If you are a fan of power hitting, It can't get better than this.
Warriors 183-2 after 10 overs

SIX!Now Rovman Powell joins the party with a powerful flick over the Square leg fielder.

Chris Jordan to bowl the final over.

Three sixes from that over and the 150 mark has already been breached with an over to go. Russell looking unstoppable.
Warriors 159-2 after 9 overs.

Ah! commentator's curse.Out! Pooran gone. Tries a reverse sweep and ends up giving a simple chance to Sami at Third Man.
Nicholas Pooran C Sami B Mcclenaghan 77(25)

Ends the over with a dot.17 runs off it. Pooran might be eying a hundred here.
Warriors 130-1 after 8 overs.

Six! Humongous hit. The Fielders are just spectators here. Legends badly need a wicket.

Russell smashes one over deep midwicket and cheekily does a warm up in the middle of the pitch. Seat belt on folks! This is going to be fun.
Warriors 113-1 after 7 overs

OUT! Zahir Khan strikes. Good catch near the edge of the boundary from Mcclenaghan.
Lendl Simmons C Mcclenaghan B Zahir Khan 36(21)

Back to back sixes again and both are Out of the ground! Just no respite for the bowler.
Warriors 97-0 after 6 overs.

Back to back sixes! Fifty for Pooran. Wonderful display of power hitting from Pooran.

Dropped! off the last ball of the over. This is unbelievable. Another simple chance put down. And Pooran gets another life
Warriors 71-0 after 5 overs

Chris Jordan comes into the attack. He has got a lot of variations up his sleeve. Let's see if he can stop Pooran.

Not a bad over from Zahir khan. Did not give the batsmen any room to hit the ball. Just 10 runs off it.
Warriors 61-0 after 4 overs

Pooran is putting on a show here. Races to 31 off just 9 balls.
Warriors 51-0 after 3 overs.

Six! again the bottom hand of Pooran comes into play. Clears the front leg and dismisses the ball to the long off boundary.

Anwar Ali replaces Mohammad Sami.

19 Runs from that over. Poor fielding from Punjabi Legends. Let's see if that dropped catch by Akmal proves to be costly.
Warriors 32-0 after 2 overs

Dropped! by Umar Akmal. Pretty straightforward chance. Might have misjudged it under the lights.

Perfect start for Northern Warriors.
Warriors 13-0 after 1 over
Mcclenaghan into the attack

Six! Carved over cover by Pooran. Lot of muscle power on that shot.

Four! Simmons is off the mark by a powerful hit over the head of the mid off fielder.

The Punjabi Legends stride out to the middle led by their captain Ronchi. Nicholas Pooran and Lendl Simmons to open the batting. Mohammad Sami to start the proceedings.

Northern Warriors (Playing XI): Ravi Bopara, Rovman Powell, Lendl Simmons, Amitoze Singh, Andre Russell, Daren Sammy(c), Nicholas Pooran(w), Hardus Viljoen, Imran Haider, Chris Green, Wahab Riaz.
Punjabi Legends (Playing XI): Luke Ronchi(c), Evin Lewis, Umar Akmal, Shaiman Anwar, Tom Moores(w), Mitchell McClenaghan, Mohammad Sami, Liam Plunkett, Anwar Ali, Chris Jordan, Zahir Khan.

Punjabi Legends have won the toss and they have decided to bowl first.

Toss in a few minutes.