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Best performances - Batsmen

Aaron Jones
73(38) 10x4 - 2x6
Control %76%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 19 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
8 8 4 5 11 11 0 26
AD Russell
AD Russell
65(39) 6x4 - 4x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 25 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
4 0 0 4 20 18 5 14

Best performances - Bowlers

Waqar Salamkheil
O4
M0
R29
W2
Eco7.25
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
JO Holder
JO Holder
O4
M0
R36
W2
Eco9
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

11:13pm That will be a wrap from us for tonight. We will be back with more MLC action tomorrow, and would love your company for that as well. Until then, from everyone here at ESPNcricinfo, it is goodbye!

Shimron Hetmyer, Player of the Match: (On how he is feeling) Tired. Very, very tired. Thankful we could get across the line. Hopefully we can continue doing this. Once we have a decent enough start, it makes it easier for the guys lower down, and I can just go out and bat with a clear mind. Really happy with where my game is at. Leg? Little bit of a worry. Will get it looked at (in a couple of days' time).

Sikandar Raza, Seattle Orcas captain: The win yesterday did a lot of good for us. We ended up chasing 200 again on a slightly slowish and tricky track (tonight). Hopefully we can take it one game at a time and continue the momentum. The beauty of cricket is you will never have a perfect game. As a leader, you have to understand there will be mistakes. I try to keep emotions in check and think about what I am going to do next and ask the bowlers to do next. (On using just five bowlers) I thought the time of when I could have bowled, when Dre first came in
in my head, we could bowl Waqar and be even more aggressive. He (Russell) batted well (as well). (On Jones batting at three) It was down to Kyle getting a blow to the hand (and needed the physio to take a look at him). Jones took his chance (at number three). That batting order shift was mainly because Kyle got injured during fielding.

Jason Holder, Los Angeles Knight Riders captain: Felt we had a pretty decent batting effort. In hindsight, maybe 10-15 short but that is the game of cricket. It was a close game, could not get over the line. At night, the ball comes on a little bit better and batting gets easier. You have to find ways to execute and get over the line. We have come close but have not gotten over the line. We did not execute as well as we would have liked (towards the back end). One or two overs at the start probably gave away momentum. (How they intend to turn things around) We need to win - as simple as that. we need to find a way. We have not put together a complete game and the onus is on us (to produce it).

10:59pm A slightly nervy ending to a run-chase that was defined by two brisk and belligerent fifties. Jones was the one to get the party underway, riding his luck a bit at times, but smashing the ball to all parts otherwise. He perished in 12th over, though, and there was a brief period where the Knight Riders threatened to storm back. Thankfully for the Orcas, they had Hetmyer around and he produced an innings of exceptional quality, glittered with several breath-taking strokes.

The Knight Riders, as good as Hetmyer's hitting was, will feel they probably lacked on the execution front, especially towards the end. There were a few full tosses and a few loose balls, and once they started travelling, it became a game LAKR kept chasing continuously, eventually falling short with a ball left.

19.5
6
van Schalkwyk to Hetmyer, SIX, tension? Pressure? What pressure and tension, asks Shimron Hetmyer! A stunning straight six, and that's it and that's all for tonight! SvS goes for the yorker outside off, which is not the worst ploy in the world given how he had been nailing them all over. This time, though, he just errs on the fuller side and that is all Hetmyer needs. He bends his back knee to get under it and clubs it over the bowler's head. Hetmyer finishes with a 26-ball unbeaten 64, and the Orcas, who could not buy a win until yesterday, now have two in succession, and they have done it in some style - chasing 200-plus on both occasions!

3 off 2. You can cut the tension with a knife here

19.4
0
van Schalkwyk to Hetmyer, no run, oh my my! Another pin-point yorker. Hetmyer cannot get under it and he cannot nudge it past the bowler either. Straight back at SvS, who fields it and ensures it is a dot!

3 off 3. Hetmyer, you'd assume, still in charge of the situation. But if he were to be dismissed now...

19.3
1
van Schalkwyk to Mayers, 1 run, safe! Low full toss outside off. Mayers shuffles across and then cloths it off the toe-end. Mistimes it so badly that it falls well short of Holder at long on

4 off 4 now

19.2
0
van Schalkwyk to Mayers, no run, excellent yorker outside off, and this is a massive dot ball. Mayers cannot squeeze it out and only grabs a chunk of the turf in his pursuit

Mayers on strike. Can LAKR squeeze in a couple of dot balls here?

19.1
1
van Schalkwyk to Hetmyer, 1 run, full and wide outside off. Hetmyer drills it out towards deep cover and calls two. Realizes mid-way that that is not on and settles for a single

Just five more needed, and the Orcas have six balls to get there. SvS, going at more than 15 runs per over tonight, will bowl

END OF OVER:
19 | 8 Runs | SEO: 198/5 (5 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 10.42, RRR: 5.00)

  • Shimron Hetmyer57 (23b)
  • Kyle Mayers8 (10b)
  • Andre Russell4-0-29-1
  • Ali Khan4-0-46-0
18.6
1
Russell to Hetmyer, 1 run, full toss on leg stump. Hetmyer gives it all he has and drags it towards deep backward square leg. Good work on the fence by Badar to keep it to a single

Orcas one hit away from their second successive win

Seattle 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0Shayan JahangirJ Brown
2nd119Shayan JahangirAaron Jones
3rd7H KlaasenShayan Jahangir
4th1H KlaasenSO Hetmyer
5th33Sikandar RazaSO Hetmyer
6th46KR MayersSO Hetmyer