Major Cricket League (MLC) Season 2 Grand finale between Washington Freedom and San Francisco Unicorns, mighty Washington Freedom were crowned as champions of MLC 2024. Skipper Steve Smith shows his dominance in T20 cricket after a long time.
Steve Smith made the day happening for Washington Freedom
It’s time for one last dance and give it everything, dominating Washington Freedom was invited to bat, and keeping the trophy in mind within no time they started raining boundaries, though Travis Head lost his wicket in the first over skipper Steve Smith took charge of the game from his side. As batters were coming, scoring runs and leaving Steve Smith stood there and he rose to the occasion, he made 88 runs smashing 6 mighty sixes and 7 glorious fours, while Glenn Maxwell supported well and also made 40 runs within 22 balls. Washington Freedom is the only team who played like a team and they dominated every team and lost just one match. In the end, Washington Freedom scored 207 runs.

San Francisco Unicorns shattered
Destiny was written with San Francisco Unicorns that they would play the finals but they didn’t know that they would be shattered like anything, San Francisco Unicorns were in great form after defeating Texas Super Kings but they failed yet once again against Washington Freedom, none of the bowler left who concede fewer runs every bowler was treated equally. Despite giving runs San Francisco Unicorns were able to pick wickets Pat Cummins picked 2 wickets while Hassan Khan, Haris Rauf, and Juanoy Drysdale picked 1 wicket each. San Francisco Unicorns weren’t able to connect with how they were thrashed.

San Francisco Unicorns batters dismantled
After underperforming with the ball batters were the only last hope but they also were helpless, none of the batters were able to contribute well, also when San Francisco Unicorns were thrashed in bowling felt like they lost the match there itself so the intent while batting also was less and they couldn’t perform well, highest were scored by Carmi le Roux 20 runs, while star batters like Finn Allen, Jake Fraser Mc Gurk also turned flop. But San Francisco Unicorns had a great tournament they weren’t fully up to the mark but kept fighting in every match and in the end they failed, but better luck next time. The whole team got all out on 111.

Heroic performance by Washington Freedom bowlers
Dominating Washington Freedom had a smashing day with the bat so it also went with the ball too. As it’s said before Washington Freedom’s bowling unit is the most dangerous unit of the tournament and so they had a blast even with the ball. Marco Jansen and Rachin Ravindra yet once again showed their class and were successful against San Francisco Unicorns, both picked 3 wickets each while Andrew Tye picked 2 wickets, and Saurabh Netravalkar and Glenn Maxwell picked 1 wicket each. Washington Freedom played like a team and so they are crowned as champions. Steve Smith was adjourned as Man Of the Match and Travis Head as Player Of the Series.

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