San Francisco Unicorns register largest win in MLC history; beat defending champions Washington Freedom by 123 runs

San Francisco Unicorns earned the biggest triumph successful Major League Cricket (MLC) past erstwhile they trounced Washington Freedom by 123 runs successful what was a record-breaking opening nighttime astatine the Oakland Coliseum.Unicorns, led by Finn Allen's blistering 151 runs, produced plentifulness of fireworks to enthral the Bay Area assemblage arsenic Coliseum hosted its first-ever MLC fixture.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Having been enactment to bat, Unicorns scored a league grounds 269/5 acknowledgment to Allen's 151 which included 19 sixes, besides a record, with useful contributions from section lad Sanjay Krishnamurthi (36 from 20 balls) and Hassan Khan (38* from 18 balls).

Everyone, barroom Jack Edwards - who took 2/39, went for implicit 10 runs an over.

Saurabh Netravalkar, 1 of the stars of USA's T20 World Cup tally successful 2023, was the astir costly bowler - going for 57 runs successful the maximum 4 overs.In reply, Washington Freedom were coasting astatine 80/0 with Mitchell Owen (39 from 20 balls) and Rachin Ravindra (42 from 17 balls) starring the onslaught by the powerplay overs.When some departed, and Freedom were reduced to 97/2, they mislaid the adjacent six wickets successful conscionable 20 runs. Edwards (21 from 7 balls) and Ben Sears (15 from 10) were the lone 2 others who produced a fight, albeit meek, successful going past the 10-run mark.

Seven of Freedom's players departed successful azygous digits.Haris Rauf (3/30), Hassan Khan (3/38) and Carmi le Roux (2/35) were the prime of the bowlers for the Unicorns who were playing their archetypal 'real' location crippled successful MLC.

At the forefont of the Unicorns' amusement was Allen who clobbered 19 sixes arsenic helium brought up his 150 successful 49 balls to grounds the fastest 150 successful T20 cricket history.The Kiwi batter's 19 sixes bushed the grounds held by West Indies' Chris Gayle and Estonia's Sahil Chauhan.

Not truthful surprisingly, helium was named the Player of the Match."Nice to commencement the tourney beardown coming here. I reckon bully bats (smiles, erstwhile asked however helium deed the shot truthful clean)," helium said astatine the post-match ceremony."I acceptable up beauteous good and deed the shot down the ground. Good wickets. Was beauteous special, bully archetypal stint. We got a batch of firepower with the bat. Good win. I deliberation the mode the tourney is going, it's shaping beauteous well.

The lads are enjoying," helium added.

Glenn Maxwell, the Freedom captain, credited Allen for taking the crippled distant from them. "Finn Allen batted beautifully, helium overpowered us, we had acceptable plans, but this was a tiny crushed and a beauteous wicket. The wicket changed a spot nether lights, it held up a bit, but we mislaid excessively galore wickets successful the mediate overs. We thought we had a chance, played good successful the archetypal 7 overs and past it fell apart," helium said.The MLC volition stay successful Oakland time for 2nd of 9 matches astatine the venue with 2023 edition's champions MI New York taking connected Texas Super Kings.Biggest wins successful MLC history