Английская Википедия:2020–21 Road Safety World Series

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The 2020–21 Road Safety World Series was the inaugural season of the Road Safety World Series, a Twenty20 cricket league featuring retired international cricketers. It was organised by the Road Safety World Series to raise awareness about road safety. The 2020–21 edition of the series featured players from India, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, Australia and Bangladesh. Sunil Gavaskar, former India captain, was the commissioner of the series, while Sachin Tendulkar was its brand ambassador.

Background

The Road Safety World Series was founded by Ravi Gaikwad and approved by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The first edition of the tournament began in March 2020, with the tournament taking place at venues in Mumbai and Pune in India. The tournament was to be played in a round-robin format with the top two finishers playing the final.

Only four matches were played in 2020 and on 13 March, as a result of an advisory by Indian Government following the COVID-19 pandemic, the remaining seven matches were rescheduled to a later date. Initially it was decided that the remaining matches would be played behind closed doors at DY Patil Stadium; but the tournament was later indefinitely postponed.

Instead of starting afresh in 2021, the organisers opted to resume the previous edition. Bangladesh Legends and England Legends were added to the tournament after Australia Legends opted out due to COVID-19 restrictions making overseas travel impossible for Australians.

Venues

The 11 matches were initially scheduled to be played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, and MCA Stadium in Pune with the final initially scheduled for 22 March 2020 in Pune. In 2021 the remaining matches were held at Raipur.

Squads

Australia Legends	Bangladesh Legends	England Legends	India Legends
Brett Lee (c) Travis Birt Mark Cosgrove Xavier Doherty Brett Geeves Brad Haddin (wk) Brad Hodge Michael Klinger Jason Krejza Ben Laughlin Shane Lee Clint McKay Nathan Reardon Patrick Richards	Mohammad Rafique (c) Abdur Razzak Aftab Ahmed Alamgir Kabir Hannan Sarkar Javed Omar Khaled Mahmud Khaled Mashud (wk) Mehrab Hossain Mushfiqur Rahman Nafees Iqbal Nazimuddin Niamur Rashid Rajin Saleh Mohammad Sharif	Kevin Pietersen (c) Nick Compton Gavin Hamilton Matthew Hoggard Kabir Ali Darren Maddy Philip Mustard (wk) Owais Shah Monty Panesar Sajid Mahmood Chris Schofield Ryan Sidebottom James Tindall James Tredwell Chris Tremlett Jonathan Trott Jim Troughton Usman Afzaal	Sachin Tendulkar (c) Noel David Manpreet Gony Mohammad Kaif Pragyan Ojha Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Virender Sehwag Yuvraj Singh Players replaced: Ajit Agarkar Sairaj Bahutule Sanjay Bangar Sameer Dighe (wk) Abey Kuruvilla Zaheer Khan Replacements: Subramaniam Badrinath Ravi Gaikwad Vinay Kumar Naman Ojha (wk) Yusuf Pathan Rajesh Pawar
Sri Lanka Legends	South Africa Legends	West Indies Legends
Tillakaratne Dilshan (c) Dilhara Fernando Rangana Herath Chinthaka Jayasinghe Chamara Kapugedera Farveez Maharoof Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Dulanjana Wijensinghe Players replaced: Marvan Atapattu Upul Chandana Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Muttiah Muralitharan Sachithra Senanayake Chaminda Vaas Malinda Warnapura Replacements: Russel Arnold Sanath Jayasuriya Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Dhammika Prasad Upul Tharanga (wk) Kaushalya Weeraratne	Jonty Rhodes (c) Garnett Kruger Lloyd Norris-Jones Roger Telemachus Morné van Wyk (wk) Players replaced: Herschelle Gibbs Andrew Hall Paul Harris Lance Klusener Ryan McLaren Albie Morkel Jacques Rudolph Johan van der Wath Martin van Jaarsveld Replacements: Loots Bosman Zander de Bruyn Nantie Hayward Justin Kemp Makhaya Ntini Alviro Petersen Andrew Puttick (wk) Thandi Tshabalala Monde Zondeki	Brian Lara (c) Sulieman Benn Tino Best Pedro Collins Kirk Edwards Carl Hooper Ridley Jacobs (wk) Renford Pinnock Dinanath Ramnarine Adam Sanford Players replaced: Samuel Badree Shivnarine Chanderpaul Daren Ganga Danza Hyatt Ricardo Powell Ramnaresh Sarwan Replacements: Ryan Austin Narsingh Deonarine Mahendra Nagamootoo William Perkins (wk) Dwayne Smith

Points table

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• Шаблон:Color box Qualified to the semi-finals
• Шаблон:Color box Opted out of the tournament
  • Australia Legends played 1 match against Sri Lanka Legends and forfeited their remaining matches as they could not travel to India due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Tie-break criteria

1. Number of wins
2. Head to head results
3. Net run rate.

League stage

All times are in to Indian Standard Time (IST).

2021

The remaining six group matches were rescheduled to 2021. With Australia unable to play their matches, all matches involving the side were ruled as walkovers, with the opposing side gaining four points. With the expansion of the tournament the number of group-stage matches increased.

Knockout stage

The knockout stage started with semi-finals at Raipur, the winners of each progressing to the final at Raipur. If any match ended in a tie, a Super Over would be used to determine the winner. If the scores in the Super Over were also tied, the winner would be determined by another Super Over and continues, until the team wins the Super Over.

On 10 March 2021, Sri Lanka Legends became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals after beating Bangladesh Legends at Raipur. Three days later, saw tournament hosts India Legends, the second team to qualify after they defeated South Africa Legends at Raipur on 13 March 2021. The following day after, South Africa Legends became the third team to qualify after they beat Bangladesh Legends at Raipur on 15 March 2021. The following day, in the final match of the league stage, West Indies Legends and England Legends played for the final spot in the semifinals. Eventually, West Indies Legends became the fourth and final team to qualify for the semi-finals after they beat England Legends in a virtual quarterfinal match.

The first semi-final was played between India Legends and West Indies Legends at Raipur, while the second semi-final was played between Sri Lanka Legends and South Africa Legends at the same venue again.

Semi-finals

The first semi-final between India Legends and West Indies Legends was played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur on 17 March 2021.

Batting first, India Legends got off to a fantastic start, but lost opener Virender Sehwag, after he gave Indians the perfect start, having scored 35 runs. However, the Indians continued their high scoring rate, as Sachin Tendulkar combined with Mohammad Kaif and Yusuf Pathan for partnerships of 53 and a quick 31 respectively. Tendulkar scored 65 runs before he was the third man out in the 14th over. After his dismissal, Yuvraj Singh combined with Yusuf Pathan for an unbeaten partnership of 78 runs, also scoring a quickfire unbeaten 49* from just 20 deliveries, which included 6 sixes, out of which 4 came in 18th over bowled by Mahendra Nagamootoo. The Indian Legends finished with a score of 218/3, after a fantastic display of batting at the end of their 20 overs.

The West Indies Legends saw William Perkins fell to Manpreet Gony in the second over, but the West Indians scored 71/1 in the first six overs, with Dwayne Smith combining with Narsingh Deonarine going berserk after the Indian bowlers. After a partnership of 99 runs for the second wicket between Dwayne Smith and Narsingh Deonarine, Smith was dismissed for 63. After Kirk Edwards was stumped by Naman Ojha off Pragyan Ojha’s bowling, falling for a first-ball duck, Brian Lara was joined by Narsingh Deonarine for a partnership of 80 runs for the fourth wicket that left West Indies Legends needing 32 runs from the final three overs; however, after the dismissal of Brian Lara and Narsingh Deonarine, within a span of 4 runs and good tight bowling by Vinay Kumar, Manpreet Gony and Irfan Pathan, Indians managed to stop West Indies Legends at 206/6, entering into finals of Road Safety World Series.

The second semi-final saw Sri Lanka Legends take on South Africa Legends at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur on 19 March 2021.

Sri Lanka Legends won the toss and chose to field first. South Africa Legends made a steady start to their innings but lost Andrew Puttick in the third over. Alviro Petersen was joined by Morné van Wyk and combined for a 53 runs partnership. Apart from these batsmen, no other batsman could significantly contribute towards the total as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Nuwan Kulasekara ran through the South African batting lineup and took 5 wickets. Somehow, the South African Legends managed to score 125, with Morné van Wyk top-scoring with 53.

Sri Lanka Legends took their time to get going in the run chase but were soon making progress before Tillakaratne Dilshan was dismissed by Makhaya Ntini for the first wicket. Quick-hitting Sanath Jayasuriya with Upul Tharanga had a small partnership of 39 runs before Petersen dismissed Jayasuriya for 18 runs. Chinthaka Jayasinghe promoted up the order, started to smash bowlers all over the park, while Tharanga played the anchor's role in the chase. The Sri Lankan Legends successfully chased the target with more than two overs to spare and saw them entering the finals against India Legends, to be played on 21 March 2021.

Statistics

The top 5 players in each category are listed.

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Runs	High score
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka Legends	8	271	61 not out
Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka Legends	6	237	99 not out
Sachin Tendulkar	India Legends	7	233	65
Morné van Wyk	South Africa Legends	6	228	69 not out
Virender Sehwag	India Legends	7	214	80 not out

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Best bowling
Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka Legends	8	12	4/6
Yusuf Pathan	India Legends	5	9	3/28
Munaf Patel	India Legends	7	9	4/19
Monty Panesar	England Legends	6	8	4/26
Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka Legends	7	8	2/5

• Source: ESPNcricinfo