Texas Super Kings beat defending champions MI New York in the Eliminator of the Major League Cricket 2024 at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. Winning the toss and opting to field first, Texas Super Kings pacers Zia-ul-Haq and Marcus Stoinis struck in their opening spells to get rid of Dewald Brewis and Nicholas Pooran, respectively.
At 18/2, Monank Patel led MI New Yorkβs recovery with steady partnerships with opener Shayan Jahangir (26 off 23 balls) and Rashid Khan to take their team past the 100-run mark. While Patel cracked 48 runs before getting knocked over by Noor Ahmed (1/37), Rashid marched on to bash 55 runs from 30 balls with the aid of four boundaries and as many sixes.
Among the Texas Super Kings bowlers, Marcus Stoinis (2/18) and Aaron Hardie (2/22) picked up two wickets each while Dwayne Bravo accounted for the dismissal of Jahangir. Their collective efforts eventually restricted MI New York to 163/8 by the completion of 20 overs.
Chasing 164, Texas Super Kings openers Devon Conway and Faf du Plessis shared over 100 runs in just 12-and-a-half overs. Captain Faf himself amounted to 72 of those runs from just 47 balls until he was dismissed by Nosthush Kenjige at 101/1.
Conway scored an unbeaten half-century and shared another 66 runs with Aaron Hardie (40* off 22 balls) to take Texas Super Kings to a nine-wicket win in the penultimate over.
MLC 2024 Most Runs List
Texas Super Kings captain Faf du Plessis made 72 in the Eliminator to register his fourth 50-plus score of the MLC 2024 season. Finding himself 125 runs ahead of Travis Head, Du Plessis further distanced himself with 375 runs to lead the run-scoring charts.
Washington Freedom openers Travis Head (250 runs) and Steve Smith (247 runs) find themselves at number two and three, respectively, on the top 10 table. Texas Super Kings opener Devon Conway (231 runs) climbed to the fourth spot after scoring 51* against MI New York. He is followed by Ryan Rickelton (225 runs), Finn Allen (186 runs), and Nicholas Pooran (180 runs) as the next three most prolific batters of the season.
Matthew Short and Quinton de Kock, with 170 runs each, are ranked eighth and ninth on the table while Jason Roy finds himself at the bottom of the top 10 charts with 163 runs.
MLC 2024 Most Wickets List
Washington Freedomβs Saurabh Netravalkar remained the MLC 2024 seasonβs undisputed wicket-taking leader with 12 scalps from five innings. The speedster is followed by Cameron Gannon (11 wickets) and Rashid Khan (10 wickets) as the second and third-best bowlers, respectively.
Glenn Maxwell, Lockie Ferguson, Spencer Johnson, and Trent Boult occupy the next four slots on the top 10 charts with nine wickets each to their credit. Harmeet Singh and Marcus Stoinis occupy number eight and nine positions for their eight-wicket tournament hauls, while Zia-ul-Haq rounds up the top 10 standings with seven wickets.
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Edited by Samya Majumdar