The match played on Sunday in Major League Cricket was incredibly exciting, with the Texas Super Kings defeating MI New York by 39 runs. In the match played in Dallas, Texas Super Kings captain Faf du Plessis scored a spectacular century.
SPORTS NEWS: The match played on Sunday in Major League Cricket (MLC) 2025 became memorable for the audience. In this high-voltage match in Dallas, the Texas Super Kings defeated MI New York by 39 runs and secured their place in the playoffs. The hero of the Super Kings' victory was captain Faf du Plessis, who demolished the opposition's every strategy with an unbeaten century.
Batting first, Texas Super Kings scored a massive 223 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the MI New York team could only score 184 runs by losing nine wickets in 20 overs. From MI's side, Kieron Pollard played a blistering innings of 70 runs in 39 balls, but failed to win the match for the team.
Faf du Plessis's brilliant innings
After losing the toss and coming to bat first, the start of Texas Super Kings was not as expected. Opener Smit Patel was out after scoring only 3 runs. But after this, Faf du Plessis took charge. A partnership of 81 runs with Saiteja Mukkamalla for the second wicket gave the team a b base. Saiteja scored 25 runs in 18 balls.
After this, du Plessis also shared a 57-run partnership with Marcus Stoinis. Stoinis contributed 25 runs in 22 balls. In the final overs, du Plessis and Donovan Ferreira further accelerated the run rate. Both shared an 81-run partnership in which Ferreira hit 53 runs in 20 balls. Du Plessis scored an unbeaten 103 runs in 53 balls with the help of five fours and nine sixes, and took the team to a big score of 223. George Linde and Rusheel Ugarkar took two wickets each for MI New York.
MI New York's faltering innings
Chasing a target of 224 runs, MI New York's start was very poor. The team lost four important wickets for 75 runs. Quinton de Kock scored 35 runs, while captain Nicholas Pooran returned to the pavilion for only 8 runs. Monank Patel (6 runs) and Tajinder Dhillon (15 runs) also got out early.
After that, Pollard shared an important 88-run partnership with Michael Bracewell for the fifth wicket. Bracewell scored 26 runs but the team faltered again after his dismissal. Pollard played a smashing innings of 70 runs in 39 balls with the help of five fours and five sixes, but MI's hopes were shattered as soon as he was out. In the final overs, George Linde (6 runs), Trent Boult (6 runs) and Rusheel (0) could not do anything special and the MI New York team could only reach 184 runs by losing nine wickets in 20 overs.
Texas's brilliant bowling
Talking about the bowling of Texas Super Kings, Akeal Hosein bowled brilliantly, taking 3 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs and became the 'Player of the Match'. Apart from this, Nandre Burger and Marcus Stoinis also took two wickets each and broke the back of MI New York's batting. This is du Plessis's second century of the season. Earlier, he had scored a century of 100 runs against San Francisco Unicorns. By scoring 317 runs in seven innings, he has become the highest run-scorer this season. After him are Finn Allen (305 runs) and Monank Patel (293 runs).
