MLC 2024: Washington Freedom wins Major League Cricket title

Washington Freedom, captained by Steve Smith, has won the final match of the second season of Major League Cricket. They won this match by 96 runs.

MLC 2024: Washington Freedom wins Major League Cricket title

Major League Cricket has got a new champion. The final match of this league was played between the teams of Washington Freedom and San Francisco Unicorns. Washington Freedom, captained by Steve Smith, won the final match in a one-sided manner and won the title. In the title match, Freedom defeated San Francisco Unicorns by 96 runs. The heroes of Washington Freedom's victory were captain Steve Smith and Marco Jensen.

Steve Smith's captaincy innings

Washington Freedom batted first in the match played at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. Travis Head's performance was not good in the final match, but captain Steve Smith batted brilliantly. Due to which Washington Freedom, batting first, scored 207 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Steve Smith scored 88 runs in just 52 balls, which included 6 sixes and 7 fours. During this, his strike rate was 169.23. Apart from this, Glenn Maxwell scored 40 runs in 22 balls. Smith, along with Glenn Maxwell, took the innings to 169 runs. Mukhtar Ahmed scored 19 runs in 9 balls and Obas Pinar scored 13 runs in 9 balls to end the innings.

While chasing the target of 208 runs given by Washington Freedom, the team of San Francisco Unicorns collapsed cheaply. The entire team was all out for 111 runs in 16 overs. Carmi Le Roux contributed the highest 20 runs for San Francisco Unicorns and returned not out. At the same time, Marco Jensen took three wickets for 28 runs in four overs for Freedom. At the same time, Rachin Ravindra took three wickets for 23 runs in four overs. Andrew Tye took two wickets for 12 runs in two overs. While Saurabh Netravkar and Glenn Maxwell took one wicket each. Steve Smith was named Player of the Match in the final for his brilliant and explosive innings.

Strong performance by Steve Smith and Travis Head

This season was very good for Steve Smith. With the 6 sixes hit in the final of MLC 2024, Steve Smith's total number of sixes in the tournament became 21. During this, he scored 336 runs in 9 innings and became the third most successful batsman of the league. At the same time, Travis Head was chosen as the Player of the Tournament. Travis Head scored 336 runs in 9 matches at an average of 48 and during this his strike rate was 173.2.