Steve-Smith: Former Australian captain and legendary batsman Steve Smith is currently a part of America's Major League Cricket. Steve Smith, who is playing the role of captain for Major League Cricket franchise Washington Freedom, has played many brilliant innings this season. However, in the final of Major League Cricket, Steve Smith played a brilliant captaincy innings for his team and led his team to victory.

Steve Smith created havoc in the MLC Final

The final match of Major League Cricket, played on the lines of IPL in America, was played between Washington Freedom and San Francisco Unicorns. In this match, Washington Freedom captain Steve Smith played a brilliant captaincy innings for his team and scored 88 runs. During this, Steve Smith hit 6 sixes and 7 fours. If the runs scored by Steve Smith from boundaries are added, then he scored 64 runs from boundaries only which came in just 13 balls. However, Smith faced a total of 52 balls to score 88 runs.

Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell crossed 200

Australia's Steve Smith and his Australian teammate and star all-rounder Glenn Maxwell together took Washington Freedom past 200. Smith scored 88 runs and Glenn Maxwell scored 40 runs in 22 balls with the help of 4 sixes and a four and took the team's score to 207 runs. However, apart from Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell, no other player could play a big innings for the team. In such a situation, if any one of these players had flopped, the team's boat could have sunk.

Washington Freedom became the champion of MLC 2024

In the final match of Major League Cricket, Steve Smith-led Washington Freedom defeated San Francisco Unicorns by a huge margin of 96 runs to win the MLC 2024 trophy. Chasing a target of 208 runs, San Francisco Unicorns did not have a good start and lost three wickets at a score of 30 runs. By this score their openers had returned to the pavilion and then the team could not recover and was all out for 111.