Can he finish the job in this over? Yes, he can. Curling it back after hitting a shorter length at 90mph and gets the seam movement, inside-edge to the keeper, his feet got stuck. Haris has been the star of the show, regaled us with his pace and aggressive bowling
SF vs Washington, 1st Match at Oakland, MLC, Jun 12 2025 - Match Result
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Finn Allen, MVP: I reckon good bats (smiles), nice to star the tournament strong. Think they did a really good job preparing the wicket. We have got firepower and guys chipped in as well. Was special and good stint. Crowd was electric and (tournament) is shaping up well
After posting a mammoth 269, thanks to Finn Allen's pyrotechnics, scoring 151 at a blistering strike rate of 296.07 - Unicorns left Washington Freedom reeling. WSF began their chase brightly, racing to 50 in just 3.2 overs and maintaining momentum through the powerplay. But the introduction of Haris Rauf turned the tide. His spell slowed things down and wickets began to tumble at regular intervals as batters tried to keep up with the asking rate and manufacture big shots but the efforts consistently misfired. Haris Rauf and Hassan Khan claimed three wickets each. Liam Plunkett delivered a superb one over while Carmi le Roux applied smart tactics to bag two crucial wickets of Mukhtar Ahmed and AJ Pienaar. A sensational performance from the Unicorns and a chance for Washington Freedom to reflect particularly on refining their bowling strategies moving forward
Lobbed up on off, pace-on, attacks and shanks it away to long-on for a single
Dropped short and outside off, ball sticks into the surface, never really arrives at him, jabbed away to deep extra cover
Moves leg-side to access the area at cover, crunched away to cover
Fuller and wicket to wicket, goes down on one knee to slog sweep, misses it and mistimes to third man region
Lands it on a fuller length on middle, clears front leg and forces it to long-on
Around the wicket, drops short and gets it to spin wide of off, deposited outside the park over long-off, was very wide
Slower length ball on off, mistimed a pull to deep square, bowled a tremendous spell tonight, used slow balls, bouncers and cranked up the pace when needed, using all his experience and bag of tricks
Bit short and outside off, pacy stuff, defended down the pitch
Banged in short on middle, takes it on and rolls his wrists, sending it away to deep backward square for a couple, Krishna does well in the deep, slips but doesn't leak a boundary
Length ball floating outside off, sends it bobbling over to deep third for a run
Length ball just outside off, went hard and a late drive ends up taking an outside edge that goes between keeper and first slip, elicits a smile from both batter and bowler
Over the wicket, one slip in place, hard length and attacks off-stump, hacks it to the right of deep midwicket
Stays rooted deep in crease, tries to pull it and misses it completely, was fired in on off, and was close to hitting the stumps
Runs out of his luck. Drags short and spins it across him, goes down for a slog sweep, in the air for a while and then gobbled by the fielder at wide long-on, it's been a procession
Misfield and goes to the rope at cover, deep extra cover to be precise
Another drop, Anderson drops a soda at mid-off region, was in the air for a long while, lights could be an issue here. It was a very slow delivery and he went downtown with no timing, gets one life
guided to short fine leg for a run
Around, length and drifting in at leg, helped towards fine leg and non-striker was struggling a bit, makes it home comfortably in the end as confirmed by the replay
Shorter in length and just outside off, crunched on the up to cover
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Oakland Coliseum,Oakland | |
Toss | Washington Freedom, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2025 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 12 June 2025 - night (20-over match) |
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Points | San Francisco Unicorns 2, Washington Freedom 0 |
Over 14 • WSF 146/10