147/7 (20.0)
CR : 7.35
148/6 (20.0)
CR : 7.40
San Francisco Unicorns won by 1 run 🏆
Player of the Match
Matthew Short
80(63)
SFU won by 1 run
4:46 AM IST, 7:16 PM Local Time: San Francisco Unicorns have won the match by 1 run.
And this is it, the fixture of the Major League Cricket match between Texas Super Kings and San Francisco Unicorns has come to an end. Faf du Plessis, captain of Texas Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first. Unicorns sent out to bat, were off to a very poor start. They lost three wickets in the powerplay and could only notch up 25 runs. Hassan Khan, after the powerplay, took the responsibility to up the scoring rate. Matthew Short on the other hand, was struggling but stood his ground firm. After Hassan Khan departed, Matthew Short looked set and hit sixes to take the score to a competitive total. Matthew Short scored 80 runs off 63 balls, taking his side to 148/6 at the end of 20 overs. Marcus Stoinis was the pick of the bowlers with his 3 wicket haul, giving away 32 runs in 4 overs.
While chasing 149, Texas Super Kings was off to a similar start. Brody Couch was extracting extra bounce from the surface and got the better off both the openers. A partnership between Saiteja Reddy Mukkamalla and Shubham Ranjane took the game deep and then Donovan Ferriera's power hitting brought the game right in the reach of the Texas batters. Romario Shepherd bowling the penultimante over, took the two big wickets of Donovan Ferreira and Shubham Ranjane, against the run of play. After 240 balls of play, when the dust settled, Texas Super Kings found themselves short of just 1 run and the Unicorns will go back with the two points.
Looking at the points table, this win has taken the Unicorns to the top of the table, with a slightly better NRR and 2 extra points. Texas Super Kings are second on the points table, just separated by NRR from the third place team, Washington Freedom who have played a game less.
Faf du Plessis (Texas Super Kings Captain): "Yeah, I thought the guys bowled really well. It was tough to bat in the first six, they batted well after that but it was a good score.
It is the nature of the wicket. You keep wickets in the hand early on. Then it gets easier, we did that well. Probably as a batting unit, we feel like we should have got over the line from the position where we were in the game.
We have another crack tomorrow against the Orcas. We will keep our eyes on this game and come back again tomorrow."
It is the nature of the wicket. You keep wickets in the hand early on. Then it gets easier, we did that well. Probably as a batting unit, we feel like we should have got over the line from the position where we were in the game.
We have another crack tomorrow against the Orcas. We will keep our eyes on this game and come back again tomorrow."
Time for the post-match presentation...
Power Hitter of the Day: Donovan Ferreira
Play of the Day: Akeal Hosein
Most Valuable Player of the Match: Matthew Short
Matthew Short(San Francisco Unicorns Captain & MVP): "It was a bit of a grind out there. The wicket is really tacky. The groundsmen has done a really good job. Couple of partnerships in the middle really helped and got us to a really good total in the end.
After the start, the way the wicket was reacting, I think anything above 130 would have been good. The wicket hardened up a little bit in the second half. Credit to our bowlers, they did a really good job. They took lessons from the last game and executed them well.
Yeah we know how dangerous Romario can be. We probably didn't bowl to the conditions in the last match, we went back to plan a lot better tonight.
Very happy, we have come off two losses in a row, which were winnable matches to be fair. So yeah, nice to get the momentum back and hopefully move to the finals."
After the start, the way the wicket was reacting, I think anything above 130 would have been good. The wicket hardened up a little bit in the second half. Credit to our bowlers, they did a really good job. They took lessons from the last game and executed them well.
Yeah we know how dangerous Romario can be. We probably didn't bowl to the conditions in the last match, we went back to plan a lot better tonight.
Very happy, we have come off two losses in a row, which were winnable matches to be fair. So yeah, nice to get the momentum back and hopefully move to the finals."
This is it from our side, the fixture between San Francisco Unicorns and Texas Super Kings have come to an end. This is Utsav Chandak signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Ajay Singh and the scorer of the fixture Ashok Dayma. Thanks for staying with us till the end. Catch all the cricket updates on the Crickxo app.