In the 17th match of the Major League Cricket Tournament 2024 (MLC 2024), Washington Freedom defeated Texas Super Kings by 42 runs. In this match, Travis Head and Steve Smith scored half-centuries for the Freedom team and then Rachin Ravindra bowled brilliantly and took 4 wickets to give his team a one-sided victory.

Travis Head, Steve Smith and Rachin Ravindra shined

In this match, Texas Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be completely wrong. This is because as soon as he came on the field, Travis Head started playing stormy shots and scored a half-century of 53 runs in just 22 balls.

Apart from this, Steve Smith also scored 57 runs by hitting 2 fours and 3 sixes in 40 balls. Glenn Maxwell scored 34 runs in 23 balls and Obas Pienaar scored 33 runs in 21 balls. On the basis of these innings, the Washington Freedom team put a huge target of 207 runs on the scoreboard in 20 overs.

After this, Rachin Ravindra's magic was seen on the field. He scored just one run while batting for the team, but when he came to bowl, he made up for it completely. Rachin took 4 wickets for just 16 runs in 3.5 overs. Apart from this, Jasdeep Singh and Glenn Maxwell also took 3-3 wickets.

Faf's hard work went waste

In response, once again captain Faf du Plessis hit a half-century for Texas Super Kings. He scored 55 runs in 32 balls by hitting 5 fours and 5 sixes, but he did not get much support from any player on the field, after which the Texas team was able to score only 164 runs in 19.5 overs and lost the match by a huge margin of 42 runs.