San Francisco Unicorns vs Los Angeles Knight Riders: The second match of Major League Cricket was played between San Francisco Unicorns and Los Angeles Knight Riders. This was the first match of both the teams in the fourth season of the league. In this match played in 14-14 overs, Los Angeles Knight Riders defeated San Francisco Unicorns by 7 wickets. San Francisco Unicorns is the same team, which has signed former Indian off-spinner Ashwin. However, Ashwin was not a part of this match. Colin Munro and Andre Fletcher showed tremendous style in the victory of Los Angeles Knight Riders. While chasing the target of scoring 151 runs in 14 overs against San Francisco Unicorns, both of them made their team’s job easy in the first 34 balls of the innings. During this period the record of sixes was also broken.
Munro-Fletcher created havoc in 36 balls
Munro and in the chase of 151 runs Fletcher The pair created a stir from the very first over. This pair of Los Angeles Knight Riders, who came to open the innings, broke on the 34th ball of the innings but by then they had done their job. Munro and Fletcher together took the opening wicket and added 70 runs in 6 overs i.e. 36 balls, which made the chase of 151 runs easy. In this partnership, Andre Fletcher scored 34 runs in 17 balls while Munro scored 32 runs in 19 balls.
Andre Fletcher broke Russell’s record of sixes
The first wicket of Los Angeles Knight Riders fell in the form of Andre Fletcher, who, playing at a strike rate of 200, hit only 2 sixes in this match, but with the help of those 2 sixes, he broke Andre Russell’s record of hitting the maximum number of 16 sixes for Los Angeles Knight Riders. Andre Fletcher is now the batsman with the most number of sixes for Los Angeles Knight Riders with 17 sixes.
Munro remained unbeaten till the end, became player of the match
After Andre Fletcher was out, Colin Munro played till the end and returned only after leading the team to victory. He scored 64 unbeaten runs in 40 balls at a strike rate of 160. His innings included 6 fours and 4 sixes. He was chosen player of the match for this strong innings.
Ashwin’s team San Francisco Unicorns batted first
Earlier, Los Angeles Knight Riders won the toss and put San Francisco Unicorns to bat first. This team, which signed a deal with Ashwin, batted first in its opening match of the fourth season and scored 150 runs for 7 wickets in 14 overs.
Haris Rauf failed miserably, team lost
Defending 150 runs in 14 overs was not a difficult task but their bowlers could not do so. Pakistan’s Haris Rauf was the most experienced fast bowler of this team but he neither took any wicket nor gave away runs at an economy of 14.25. Haris Rauf gave 38 runs in 2.4 overs.
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