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Match Details
LAKR vs SFU 8th Match, MLC 2023
LAKR
191-520.0
San Francisco Unicorns won by 21 runs 🏆
SFU
20.0212-7
Player of the Match
Matthew Wade
San Francisco Unicorns78(41)
LAKR - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 54 | 60 | 10 Over | 94 | 89 | 15 Over | 146 | 127 |
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SFU - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 50 | 75 | 10 Over | 111 | 125 | 15 Over | 172 | 158 | 20 Over | 208 | 212 |
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So, that’s all the action from this encounter. The caravan will now move to Church Street Park in Morrisville where the remaining of the league stage would be contested. Stay tuned for more cricketing action from around the world. For now, this is Megh Mandaliya, signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Harsh Shukla and Prince Suman alongside our scorer/analyst Zeeshan Naiyer. Cheers!
Aaron Finch (San Francisco Unicorns Captain): "It's a great win. Right from the inning Wade got us to a great start, Stoinis going next and Corey in the end. They all batted aggressively. I think we batted as per our plan and batted smartly. In the bowling also we stuck to our plans of bowling according to the batter. The boys stood up to the plans and nailed every bit of it. We want to continue the momentum of winning the games. The tournament is now going towards the crucial moment and we thrive to continue our streak of winning the matches."
Sunil Narine( Knight Riders Captain): "We had a good start with the ball, but we subsequently allowed it to go away. We needed a strong start to our 200-run chase on this wicket, and we got it. Then, in the middle of the overs, we compromised. We could have had a greater chance of catching them if 170-180 was par. We were slightly strangled by the middle wickets. You still have to try to reset. You must devise tactics that, hopefully, will be successful. They are decent guys who care about doing things well. You will be able to tell how talented our team is when that occurs."
Matthew Wade (Player of the Match): "Yeah, I did mishit a few there. The breeze towards the shorter side helped me today. It was good batting with a few new faces. I have enjoyed it. It was really tough at the backend with those cutters but Andre Russell doesn't make it look hard work on many pitches. I think the wicket has been really good here and I have enjoyed my three games here. It's really good to come over here and see good cricket on good grounds. We are all pretty relaxed and starting to get some momentum in that batting unit. I feel Corey Anderson has been huge for us at the bottom of the order."
9:52 AM IST, 11:22 PM Local Time | Time for the presentation ceremony...
Corey Anderson: "I don't know if it was too much. Great start by the openers which gave us a good platform to come and express ourselves. The shorter boundaries are the target and hitting it in the gaps makes it easier for middle-lower order batters to bat on. The credit must go to Finch, I tried to owl him a short length and ask him to play on the longer side of the boundaries and I got lucky enough to get his wicket. Massive, great to have him(Harish Rauf) on our side. A guy like him can bowl with serious pace and at the same time can mix up with deliveries. It's always to great have bowlers like him. Yaa, looking forward to more games. A good win here but much more to come."
9:43 AM IST, 11:13 PM Local Time | The San Francisco Unicorns get back to winning ways despite a late blitz by Andre Russell. It was an all-round performance from the Aaron Finch-led side that has helped them overpower the Knight Riders by 21 runs. It was another disappointing batting performance from the Los Angeles Knight Riders. They have lost three games on the bounce and a play-off qualification for them is starting to look bleak now.
Chasing a mammoth total of 213, Jason Roy propelled the Knight Riders to a blistering start. The English opener exploited the field restrictions and batted with an aggressive approach. Unmukt Chand played the second fiddle to him and ensured the runs keep flowing at a brisk rate. Roy and Chand stitched a quick 55-run opening partnership before Haris Rauf outwitted the right-hander Roy with a slower delivery. Nonetheless, Roy’s belligerent innings of 45(21) set the tempo of the innings. San Francisco were able to stem the flow of runs following the departure of Roy.
The right-handed Chand succumbed to pressure and threw away his wicket at 20(17). Nitish Kumar 31(23) pushed the pedal again but departed in the acceleration process. The Knight Riders could never really recover from the early blows and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Shadab Khan bowled superbly in the middle overs and bagged two massive wickets of Rilee Rossouw 8(8) and Jaskaran Malhotra 7(8) to push the Knight Riders on the backfoot. They were suddenly reeling on 116/5 and the onus was upon the Caribbean duo of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine to resurrect the innings.
Andre Russell broke free in the 17th over and swatted Liam Plunkett for 21 runs. Sunil Narine also played the supporting role to him and dragged the game to the last over. Both Russell 42*(26) and Narine 28*(17) showcased their pyrotechnic abilities and added 75 runs for the 6th wicket but they were always behind the asking rate. Shadab was the pick of the bowlers for the Unicorns and finished his stint with the figures of 2/26.
Sunil Narine broke the 88-run opening partnership by removing Allen 20(19) but that did not cease the carnage. Marcus Stoinis joined his Australian counterpart and went all guns blazing straightaway. The right-handed Stoinis took on the spin of Zampa and swatted the right-arm leggie for 24 runs in the 9th over. That over included 3 maximums and 1 four. Both Wade and Stoinis were scoring with a strike rate above 200 for most of their partnership. They added 55 runs for the 2nd wicket before Stoinis 37(18) holed out in the deep. That was soon followed by the departure of Wade 78(41) as Knight Riders attained two wickets in quick succession.
Los Angeles did dry up the boundaries after two wickets but Corey Anderson broke the shackles in the 18th over and once again gathered momentum for Unicorns. The left-handed Anderson played a breezy knock of 39(20) before Adam Zampa had the better of him. Zampa was the most successful bowler for Knight Riders and finished the stint with the figures of 3/41. Stick around for the post-match presentation!
OVER 20
Los Angeles Knight Riders
191/5
Andre Russell
42(26)
Sunil Narine
28(17)
Marcus Stoinis
0-39(4.0)
19.6 M Stoinis to A Russell
0 Yorker length delivery right on the block hole. Russell manages to dig it out. And that's it for the match. San Francisco Unicorns beats Los Angeles Knight Riders by 21 runs.
19.5 M Stoinis to S Narine
1 Fuller length delivery on the off side. Narine hits it down the ground for a single.
19.4 M Stoinis to S Narine
6 This time goes on the leg side. Short of a length delivery angling on the shoulder of Narine. Goes on the back foot and pulls it over deep mid-wicket region and gets the boundary.
19.4 M Stoinis to S Narine
WD Length delivery angling wide of off. Umpire signals a wide.
19.3 M Stoinis to S Narine
6 SIX!!!!! This time skipper goes big and straight down the ground. Fuller-length delivery angling outside off. Narine goes on the line of the ball and hits it over bowlers head down the ground for the maximum.
19.2 M Stoinis to A Russell
1 Short of a length delivery on the shoulder height. Russell pulls it to long-on for a single.
In the air and dropped! Again Finch dropped at deep mid-wicket.
19.1 M Stoinis to A Russell
0 Fuller-length delivery angling on the pads. Russell clears the front foot and plays an unconventional shot. Ball goes right up in the air and Finch drops it down to mid-on.
Los Angeles Knight Riders need 37 runs runs off the last over. Six maximums here would take us to a Super Over.
OVER 19
Los Angeles Knight Riders
176/5
Sunil Narine
15(14)
Andre Russell
41(23)
Haris Rauf
1-40(4.0)
18.6 H Rauf to A Russell
1 Fuller length delivery wide of off. Russell goes inside out to deep cover for the single.
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