Cognizant Major League Cricket 2025 Match Highlights _ Texas Super Kings vs San Francisco Unicorns

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00:00And we enter the Lions then, the home of the Texas Super Kings.

00:04He was to open the bowling in Xavier Bartlett.

00:07This should be a wonderful matchup.

00:13And runs immediately and they run down towards the rope.

00:18One of the changes, Karima Gore, who is such a fantastic fielder.

00:25Lovely shot, really nicely guided.

00:30As Faf goes down the ground, does he get enough of it?

00:35It's gone all the way.

00:37It's going to be the first maximum of this season here in Texas.

00:41And the Fireworks fly, thanks to Faf.

00:46Repeats the dose.

00:48Bang, bang, goes Faf Duplessis.

00:54Change of pace and putt down.

00:56Match short, new captain.

01:00Not the ideal way to start your journey.

01:06The guy has so many options.

01:10In the power play, especially with the field.

01:13And Faf is on.

01:17And he will attack, even if it's the new bowler who's bowling the first ball.

01:24Oh, yes.

01:26That is excellent.

01:27I think that stayed a bit low.

01:35But Conway seizes his opportunity.

01:41Mid-off was up.

01:42So, very good awareness from the captain.

01:45A boundary to take him into his 87th.

01:4750-plus score in T20 cricket.

01:51Fifth in the MLC.

01:53He is a T20 legend.

01:57Because Faf Duplessis has found the form of his life.

02:02Oh, right out the middle.

02:08Short pulled away, man.

02:09Right there.

02:11And Kareem Agor.

02:13He's a fine fielder.

02:14He's not going to drop that.

02:15And this is a good matchup.

02:17But he's got a high strike rate against Haros Ralf,

02:20which tells you he probably goes after him.

02:22And very often gets himself out.

02:24He hasn't scored a lot of runs against Haros Ralf.

02:27Saitesha Mukamala.

02:29A slight shift of the order.

02:31The talk was maybe Darrell Mitchell.

02:34There's a full toss.

02:35He's cut away.

02:37Fantastic piece of adjustment from Faf Duplessis.

02:42Just like this.

02:43Hitting with the wind.

02:44You're going to get good reward.

02:46And it's another maximum.

02:47The first now for Saitesha Mukamala.

02:51Carmay Leroux is back.

02:54Mid-off is up.

02:55So, Matt Short has some running to do.

02:58Got there in the end.

03:00Had a second try.

03:02And it's the second chance he's put down for the day.

03:07Trying to ball wide with the wind in play.

03:11But Faf Duplessis has done very little wrong.

03:19That is an audacious stroke.

03:21From a young player who's making the MLC his own.

03:28A T20 great.

03:30Faf Duplessis has conquered another continent.

03:36Only the second man in the MLC to score multiple hundreds.

03:41A seventh in T20 cricket.

03:43And the second fastest of his career.

03:45He'll check the height on that.

03:51There's a fielder under it.

03:52He'll take the catch.

03:54Jake Fraser McGirt.

03:55But Wayne Knights is making his way over to Jermaine Lindell.

04:00He's crouched.

04:01So, that'll be fair delivery.

04:03The batter, Mukamala, was crouched when he hit it.

04:07Unfortunately, he departs.

04:09Doesn't quite get it out of the middle of the bat.

04:11Knew it straight away as well.

04:13Jake Fraser McGirt.

04:15Comfortably under the high ball.

04:16And Mukamala goes for 38.

04:18It's 166 for two.

04:20Marcus Stoinis walks to the crease with four overs to go.

04:27Faf Duplessis is not done quite yet.

04:30Although it's holding up in the wind.

04:32He went after it yet again.

04:36A little byplay as well between Faf Duplessis and Horace Ralph as he departs.

04:41Eyes right on it.

04:42Made sure to keep a hold of it.

04:44Faf Duplessis with a century.

04:46Daryl Mitchell now walks to the crease.

04:51They're in one over.

04:52How many balls are in an over?

04:54Six.

04:54There you go.

04:55He's got it.

04:55He's got six balls.

04:56There you go.

04:56Well done.

04:57All right.

04:57Texas is cooking.

04:58They're one for two at the moment.

05:00This could be yet another big moment.

05:04It's a low full toss.

05:06Doesn't get hold of it at all.

05:07And Marcus Stoinis has fallen to Xavier Bartlett in T20s four times now.

05:16Placement's good.

05:18Horace Ralph can't stop it.

05:23Goes into the surface.

05:25And a drop.

05:26Yet another one.

05:29Krishnamurti puts it down.

05:32And it's been going through the team.

05:33They're still going to come back for the second.

05:40It's not going to matter in the end.

05:43These last five overs have been absolutely brilliant from a bowling perspective.

05:47A couple of mischances again in the field.

05:50But the bowlers have been good to pull it back.

05:53Okay.

05:53The Unicorns are going to need 199.

05:56Just one shot of 200 to win this contest.

05:59But the best thing that they've seen so far is their skipper.

06:03Finn Allen.

06:04Strike rate of 173 already.

06:07Danziel Hack will again take the new ball.

06:09Twice this season already we've seen him bowl.

06:13And immediately just a hint of shape.

06:17If you beat it on the leg, you'll get four as well.

06:22That's not a good delivery.

06:24And that soars into the night sky.

06:26How big is that?

06:27Flashed into the offside.

06:33Going to...

06:34Oh, maybe have a boundary check.

06:36Calvin Savage does really well down there.

06:38And will be given as for a great use of the technology.

06:43This goes up.

06:44But it also goes over the shoulder.

06:46And all the way.

06:47And taken.

06:50Again, full toss.

06:52The amount of full tosses we've seen so far.

06:54Keep choking these runs up.

06:59Short is dominating.

07:02Oh, half a chance.

07:04It bursts through though and it races for four more.

07:09Picked up over the head of Mid-On.

07:11And it goes all the way.

07:13Finn Allen's in on the act now.

07:14It's his 50th 6th in cognizant MLC history.

07:19Matt Short, who's looked an impeccable touch after a lengthy return.

07:29And oh dear, that noise.

07:31You don't want to hear it if you're in the fielding side.

07:34That has been smoked.

07:42Matt Short has not played cricket since February, folks.

07:49This is what happens when a baller's under pressure.

07:53Slight missing length.

07:54Pumps the punt.

07:55Wow, 22 from five deliveries.

07:58This is no Ahmad bowling.

08:03Again, almost just checked it.

08:05He's got some power.

08:08Matthew and Finn.

08:11And the power.

08:12Oh, my goodness.

08:19We'll have to go searching for that.

08:22It's gone a mile.

08:24Six runs to finish off the power play.

08:28We'll squeeze it past Short third to get to a 90 T20 50.

08:35To go with two hundreds.

08:36Oh, it's just over.

08:43Mukamala is one of the shorter fielders down at that deep backwards square.

08:50Not from Finn Allen.

08:52He knows one way.

08:56Sixes.

08:59Again, that's smart.

09:02It's hit straight.

09:03And it's a 20-19, 20-50 to go with his 400s.

09:08This is his third 50-plus score in four innings this season.

09:14This is effortless.

09:20Now, there is a deep extra cover fielder who takes the catch.

09:24So, the plan to ball wide eventually works.

09:29But a little something for this home crowd to celebrate.

09:33Excellent by Matt Short in his first innings of the season.

09:3661 for him.

09:371-17 for one.

09:39New man in.

09:40Jake Frazier McGurk.

09:45Oh, no.

09:46No, Nood.

09:47Can't do that.

09:48It's a no ball.

09:49Straight down and add that to the stakes tournament sixes tally.

09:59Finn Allen, he's got a lot of those these days.

10:07Missed field and it will lead to four.

10:09Powered and muscled from Jake Frazier McGurk.

10:17Allen continues.

10:19The boundaries keep flowing.

10:21This is a router, man.

10:23It's a hammering.

10:26Man out a deep backwards square.

10:29Ends the party.

10:30And somehow Finn Allen falls.

10:37Striking at over 220, but he'll strike no more.

10:40He's gone for a marvellous 78 from just 35 deliveries.

10:44Sanjay Krishnamurthy comes in at number four.

10:50Krishnamurthy gets enough of that.

10:51Another full toss.

10:52We've seen so many tonight.

10:53Tsk is trying to throw absolutely everything at this at the moment.

11:04Step and hit and into the night sky.

11:07That's gone a long way.

11:09Sixes and three fours.

11:12Krize of Kachet.

11:14It won't be the winning shot just yet.

11:17The exuberance of youth.

11:19He'll say, right, I'll finish it off in style.

11:22I'll hit it for six, even though we only need two.

11:26And he's gone for 37.

11:28It's just two runs to win.

11:30Hasan Khan makes his way out to the crease at the end of the strategic timeout.

11:36Down the leg side it is.

11:39And they ensure that their winning record stays alive.

11:44And the second highest successful chase in Cognizant MRC comes here at the Grand Prairie Stadium.

12:12.

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