Nicholas Pooran: Nicholas Pooran lit up Major League Cricket(MLC) by smashing an unbeaten 137 against Seattle Orcas (SOR) which helped Mumbai Indians New York (MINY) thrash SOR by seven wickets. Pooran, who snubbed the ODI series against India saved his best for the last as the southpaw completely demolished the SOR attack by scoring 137 off just 55 balls.
The MINY captain struck a mind-boggling 13 sixes and 10 fours and made a mockery of 183 run target. MINY were crowned champions of the inaugural edition of MLC due to Pooran’s brilliance. For the uninitiated, Pooran skipped the three-match ODI series against India as he had to step up as the leader of the side due to Kieron Pollard’s absence due to injury.
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Coming back to match, MINY inserted SOR in. As usual, Trent Boult and Rashid Khan were right on money managing to not let SOR batters run away with the total. However, Quinton de Kock mixed caution with aggression and enabled SOR to post a competitive total of 183. The South African wicketkeeper scored 87.
The southpaw was well supported by Shubham Ranjane, who chipped in with 29 runs. For MINY Rashid Khan and Trent Boult shared six wickets between them. The Afghan spinner was at his miserly best conceding just nine runs per over. Boults and Rashid’s heroics did not let Orcas batters run away with a daunting total.
Speaking about the run-chase, there were only one respite for SOR bowlers as they managed to MINY openers Stevan Taylor and Shayan Jahangir for 0 and 10 respectively. But once Pooran came to the crease, it was one-way traffic, as the southpaw seemed a man on a mission.
He carted Imad Wasim, Parnell, Pretorius, and Harmeet Singh to all parts of Dallas Stadium and gave USA crowds a fitting gift.
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