MINY blitz TSK to make the Finals of the MLC as Pooran and Pollard chase down 166 with consummate ease with 7 balls left.
Pollard and Pooran knock Texas Super Kings out to put MINY in MLC 2025 final.
Pollard, Kieron. a batting coach for the IPL’s Mumbai Indians. Apt, considering that he is older than 38. However, he is a full-fledged all-rounder in other places, such as MLC, where he plays a crucial role for MI New York. On Friday night in Dallas, he demonstrated just how important he is by strolling out with MINY’s asking rate above 12, hammering 47 not out from 22 balls, and advancing his club to the MLC 2025 final at the cost of the Texas Super Kings, who must have thought they were headed to the championship round until Pollard occurred.
At 167, the chase wasn’t that big. However, by the seventh over, Michael Bracewell and Quinton de Kock had been dismissed by MINY for single figures. Monank Patel was mostly responsible for their 43 runs on the board when Bracewell fell, but he was only hitting at a strike rate of about 120. during around a run a ball was Nicholas Pooran, who had left during the fall of Bracewell. Additionally, MINY had only made it to 83 when Monank, despite his best efforts, was dismissed for 49 off 39 in the 13th over.
When Pollard saw the ball in his arc right beyond the off stump while facing his first ball off Noor Ahmad, he went thump-100 meters down the ground.
But TSK continued to play the game somehow. Additionally, the asking rate remained at 12.50 after 16 overs. The ball was then discovered in his hand by Zia-ul-Haq, and from the second ball on, Pollard went 6, 4, 4, 2, 6. The over was scored at 23. TSK must have been dreading the move, which MINY needed.
After that, it was simple until Pooran completed it with his third six off the final ball of the 19th, leaving him with 52 from 36. With him, Pollard walked away, 47 off 22.
And after making a stunning transition after concluding the league stage with three victories from ten games and needing to go through the Eliminator-Qualifier 2 process, MINY are in the final, where they will play Washington Freedom.