Sachin Tendulkar reminded us of the old times while Yuvraj Singh played a brilliant innings, India Masters won their second consecutive match

When old cricket stars gathered under the milky light of DY Patil Stadium, a battle of skills and strategy as well as cricket memories was seen. In this battle held on Tuesday, India Masters tasted their second consecutive victory in the International Masters League 2025 by defeating England Masters by 9 wickets due to their all-round game. Tendulkar refreshed memories India started chasing the target of runs and Little Master Sachin Tendulkar started it with a brilliant innings. Sachin hit five fours and a six in his innings of 34 runs off 21 balls. He shared an opening partnership of 75 runs in just 7 overs with Gurkeerat Singh Mann. Mann also scored an unbeaten 63 off 35 balls in an aggressive manner, which is his second consecutive half-century. The excitement in the stadium subsided for a while after Sachin returned to the pavilion after being caught by Tim Ambrose off Chris Schofield's bowling, and silence descended on the spectators who were excited moments earlier.

Yuvraj Singh changed the mood

However, the arrival of Yuvraj Singh, who was in dangerous form, changed the mood again as he again made the spectators happy by hitting a big six over midwicket off the second ball of the English leg-spinner. The left-hander was in a hurry to finish the match. He scored an unbeaten 27 off 14 balls and shared an unbeaten 57-run partnership with Gurkeerat to take India Masters to victory in just 11.4 overs.

Sachin Tendulkar's accurate decision

Earlier, in the third match of the first edition of the IML, Sachin Tendulkar-led India Masters won the toss and invited Eoin Morgan's England Masters to bat.

This decision proved to be effective for the host team when Abhimanyu Mithun took the wicket of stumper Phil Mustard (8) in the third over and then Dhawal Kulkarni dismissed Morgan for 14 runs off 13 balls to put the visiting team in trouble within the powerplay.

Negi gave strong shocks

After the opening pair got out early, Tim Ambrose and Darren Maddy took charge of the innings and both of them shared 43 runs for the third wicket. After this, however, left-arm spinner Pawan Negi took two wickets in the gap of two overs and kept India ahead in the match.

Ambrose scored 23 runs off 22 balls, while Maddy scored 25 runs off 24 balls. Tim Bresnan hit two fours during his innings of 16 runs off 19 balls, but Kulkarni dismissed him.

England surrender to Indian bowling

With half the team back in the dugout at 89, England needed good knocks from the bottom order batsmen but India's disciplined bowling attack didn't give any chance. Vinay Kumar dismissed the dangerous Dimitri Mascarenhas cheaply.

Mithun and Kulkarni then dismissed Chris Tremlett who made 16 runs. Dhawal then dismissed Steven Finn (1) cheaply as well. In the end, Chris Schofield scored an unbeaten 18 off 8 balls to give the visitors the much-needed lead.

For India, Dhawal Kulkarni was the best bowler with impressive figures of 3/21 while Abhimanyu Mithun and Pawan Negi took two wickets each. Vinay Kumar picked up a wicket for the hosts.