On Day 3 of the Legends Cricket Trophy 2024, Punjab Royals and Dubai Giants came out victorious as both won their respective matches against Rajasthan Kings and Colombo Lions with seven wickets in hand at the Pallekele International Stadium in Kandy.

While Punjab clinched their first win of the tournament Dubai won their second match in succession to go top of the points table.

In the first match of the day, it was Punjab Royals who came out victorious against the Rajasthan Kings who were looking to make it two on the trot after last evening's successful outing against Kandy Samp Army. Rajasthan Kings' Captain Robin Uthappa won the toss and elected to bat looking to carry on with his form.

Uthappa didn't disappoint and came out all guns blazing. Uthappa scored his second half century of the tournament as he scored 53 runs of just 26 balls with the help of five massive sixes and two boundaries before being dismissed by Upul Idrasiri. While Uthappa was going all guns blazing Rajasthan kept losing wickets at the other end and it was again up to former Zimbabwe batter Hamilton Mazakadza to support the Indian star. Mazakadza scored

31 runs of 27 balls before giving away his wicket to Rahat Ali. On the other end, it was the South African Peter Trego who kept the scoreboard ticking for the Rajasthan Kings and scored a quickfire 40 off just 20 balls with the help of six boundaries and one maximum. The cameo from Trego helped Rajasthan to a respectable score of 134-6 from 15 overs.

Punjab Royals playing their first match of the tournament meant business as they approached the chase in a clinical manner. They lost opener Naman Ojha for a single figure score but it was the experience of Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan and Dwayne Smith who made short work of the Rajasthan bowling scoring putting together a 113 run stand.

Dilshan scored 50 off 37 balls whereas Smith scored 62 of 36 balls before getting out leaving only a meagre amount of runs for the following batsmen to chase down. Punjab achieved the target with four balls to spare andseven wickets in hand handing Rajasthan Kings their first defeat of the tournament.