Los Angeles Knight Riders 184 for 7 (Munro 52, Tromp 49, Russell 40, Rauf 3-25) beat San Francisco Unicorns 173 (Hassan 45, Short 43, Hammad 40, Holder 4-40, Russell 3-42) by 11 runs<\/p>\n
Defending 184, LAKR reduced Unicorns to 42 for 4 inside five overs through Holder and Russell before Hassan Khan<\/a> (45), Matthew Short<\/a> (43) and Hammad Azam’<\/a>s 19-ball 40 revived the chase. When Hammad hit Holder for back-to-back fours at the start of the 19th over, Unicorns needed 18 off 10 balls with two wickets in hand.<\/p>\n Holder, though, removed Hammad off the last ball of the over, and Russell claimed the final wicket to bowl Unicorns out with five balls remaining. Holder finished with 4 for 40 to earn the Player-of-the-Match award, while Russell took 3 for 42 after contributing a cameo with the bat.<\/p>\n Earlier, Colin Munro<\/a>‘s 52 and Matthew Tromp<\/a>‘s 49 had laid the foundation for LAKR, with Russell providing the late impetus in a 40 off just 18 balls. They looked set for a total in excess of 200 before Haris Rauf<\/a> (3 for 25) and Xavier Bartlett (2 for 24) pulled things back by triggering a late collapse that saw LAKR lose five wickets for 52 runs.<\/p>\n Unicorns threatened to pull off the chase after recovering from their early collapse, but LAKR held their nerve at the death to register a second successive win and move into second place.<\/p>\n Unicorns, LAKR and MI New York are on 10 points each after nine matches, with Unicorns on top thanks to their net run rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Knight Riders 184 for 7 (Munro 52, Tromp 49, Russell 40, Rauf 3-25) beat San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[15638,158734,158733,146900,30360,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-394744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-articles","tag-lakr-vs-sf","tag-los-angeles-vs-sf-26th-match-cricket-news","tag-major-league-cricket","tag-reports","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}