MLC 2024: San Francisco Unicorns beat MI New York to achieve playoffs | Cricket Information – Instances of India

MLC 2024: San Francisco Unicorns beat MI New York to achieve playoffs | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: San Francisco Unicorns held their nerves to defeat MI New York by three runs in an exciting Main League Cricket 2024 encounter that went right down to the wire on the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas on Thursday.
With a victory within the cliffhanger towards defending champions, San Francisco Unicorns grew to become the second crew after the Washington Freedom to ebook a spot within the playoffs.
Batting first after successful the toss, San Francisco Unicorns have been restricted to 148/7 of their 20 overs.

The Unicorns have been reeling at 33/5 however the 87-run stand between skipper Corey Anderson and Hassan Khan (44 off 35) introduced them again within the sport.
Anderson remained unbeaten on 59 off 37 balls and performed a vital hand to get his facet out of hassle.
Nosthush Kenjige and Trent Boult took two wickets every for the MI New York facet whereas Romario Shepherd and Rashid Khan chipped in with one apiece.
MI New York Ruben Clinton for a duck of their run chase. However Dewald Brevis and Nicholas Pooran added 77 for the second wicket.
Brevis made an attacking fifty and departed on 56 off 36. The wicket of Brevis put the brakes on scoring for MI New York they usually stored dropping wickets at common intervals.

Brody Sofa and Matthew Brief shared 5 wickets amongst them whereas Haris Rauf and Hassan Khan chipped with one apiece.
Rashid Khan and Heath Richards swung their bats on the backend however did not take their crew over the road.
It boiled right down to MI New York needing 20 runs off the final over bowled by Haris Rauf.
Heath Richards hit the penultimate ball of the match for a six to make it four wanted off the final ball.
However Haris Rauf dismissed Heath Richards trapped plumb in entrance with a full-length supply, on off. Richards went for the reverse sweep however missed and it clipped off the pad, to undergo to the keeper.

Richards didn’t evaluate and the Unicorns gained by three runs.
The Unicorns moved to second place within the factors desk, whereas MI New York slumped to their fourth lack of the season and have only a sport in hand.
On the verge of elimination, MI New York won’t solely must beat the Knight Riders in a must-win sport for each, they’re going to must do it by a good margin as properly.