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San Francisco Unicorns overwhelmed Texas Super Kings in a high-scoring Challenger of the Major League Cricket (MLC) 2024 on Friday, July 26, in Dallas.
Batting first, San Francisco Unicorns opener Finn Allen shared a 79-run stand with Jake Fraser-McGurk (18 off 14 balls) and another 70 runs with number four Josh Inglis (37 off 25 balls). Allen himself went on to smack an imposing 101 from 53 balls to register his third T20 hundred and first outside the T20I arena. Hasan Khan at number six added 27 unbeaten from 15 deliveries at the death to take San Francisco Unicorns to 200/6 from 20 overs.
From the six wickets to fall in the high-scoring innings, Texas Super Kings’ Afghanistan import Noor Ahmad seized three at the expense of just 27 runs. Marcus Stoinis and Ottneil Baartman also picked up a wicket each, though they were expensive. Mohammad Mohsin cleaned up a rampaging Finn Allen in the 14th over.
Chasing 201, the Texas Super Kings could gather 190/4 from 20 overs to fall 10 runs short of a spot in the final. Captain Faf du Plessis punched out 45 off 22 while his opening partner Devon Conway (62* off 38 balls) and number six Joshua Tromp (56* off 36 balls) smacked unbeaten half-centuries.
Following a swift 55-run opening stand, bowlers Carmi le Roux (1/39) and Hasan Khan (1/25) tiled the tide back in Unicorns' favor. Juanoy Drysdale also dismissed dangermen Aaron Hardie and Marcus Stoinis in succession to plummet the TSK further.
MLC 2024 Most Runs List
Faf du Plessis scored 45 in the Challenger to scale the 400-run mark in the Major League Cricket 2024 season. Topping the run-scoring charts of the competition, he is followed by Washington Freedom opener Travis Head with 327 runs at number two. Devon Conway and Finn Allen occupy number three and number four, respectively with 293 runs each.
Steve Smith takes the fifth spot on the top 10 charts with 248 runs. Ryan Rickelton (225 runs), Hassan Khan (191 runs), and Nicholas Pooran (180 runs) take the subsequent three slots to be ranked as the sixth, seventh, and eighth most successful batters of the season so far. Matthew Short and Quinton de Kock occupy the final two slots on the list with 170 runs each to their credit.
MLC 2024 Most Wickets List
Saurabh Netravalkar continues to top the wicket-taking list of the Major League Cricket 2024 with 14 scalps from just six innings. The speedster is followed by Seattle Orcas fast bowler Cameron Gannon with 11 wickets. MI New York’s Rashid Khan and Washington Freedom’s Lockie Ferguson have picked up 10 wickets each in the tournament to be ranked third and fourth, respectively, on the top 10 charts.
Rachin Ravindra, Hassan Khan, Noor Ahmad, Glenn Maxwell, Spencer Johnson, and Marcus Stoinis have all snapped nine wickets to round up the table by taking the subsequent six slots.
