Mitch Owen and Andries Gous’ knocks has helped the side to post a comfortable victory in the 13th match of the MLC 2025 at Dallas. Despite chasing a mammoth total, the duo’s knock has powered Washington Freedom seven wicket victory to secure their fourth straight win.
Batting first, Smith Patel and du Plessis opened the innings while Netravalkar opened the bowling attack. Making a decent start, Patel scored 24 runs before being dismissed by Mitchell Owen.
With Mukkamalla’s dismissal for 6 runs, Faf du Plessis went on to score 69 runs. Marcus Stoinis and Milind Kumar’s cameo contritbuted 32 and 31 runs in the middle order and Shubham Ranjane 26* runs in the end has helped the side to post 220 runs for 6 wickets in their 20 over innings.
Mitchell Owen picked three wickets while Maxwell has two dismissals. In the pursuit of chasing 221 runs, Mitchell Owen and Rachin Ravindra opened the innings while Nandra Burger opened the bowling attack.
An absolute nail-biter ‼️ The @WSHFreedom squeak this one out with TWO balls to spare 🦅 pic.twitter.com/wWqzKUNRrz
— Cognizant Major League Cricket (@MLCricket) June 23, 2025
Despite Rachin Ravindra got dismissed for 11 runs, Owen and Andries Gous went on to stitch 119 run partnership for the second wicket. Milne got his second dismissal sending back Mitchell Owen for 89 runs.
Milne got his third wicket dismissing Glenn Maxwel for 20 runs, Andries Gous reamined unbeaten with 80 runs off 45 deliveries. Glenn Phillips 12* runs at a strike rate of 300 has helped a comfortable victory in the final over of the game.
Mitch Owen was named as the Player of the Match. Speaking during the post match presentation, “It was good fun, I was slow in the first 20-30 balls and had to catch up. I targeted the short side with the wind and it came off for me.”
“(On the approach to chasing a big score) It’s quite simple because the required run-rate is so high so need to go hard from the beginning. I was extremely lucky tonight, I bowled a couple of half vollies and got two wickets. I want to stick to my process and keep going. I guess it’s about enjoying yourself and keeping it simple,” concluded Mitch Owen.
