- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR11.3 Ravindra has Munro holing out to long-off! Ravindra darts it wide of off from left-arm around. Hides it away from Munro's swinging arc. Munro goes for a lofted hit but ends up slicing it in the air to Owen 109/37.3 Chaudhary rattles the stumps of Fletcher! Seems like a wrong'un from Chaudhary. Much quicker and fuller. Certainly not short enough for another pull. Fletcher does not connect with the ball while the bowler connects with the stumps. Fletcher falls three shy of a half-century 66/17.5 Chaudhary wheels away in celebration! He gets Dre Russ for a duck with a big legbreak! Wide on the crease, drifts in from over the wicket, pitches on middle. Russell prods at it but the ball turns away sharply to hit the top of off. Terrific delivery from Chaudhary - genuine contender for the ball of the tournament 66/214.2 picked up and picks out the outfielder! Six and out. Might have been a slower cutter, or it does not come onto the bat. Tromp short-arm jabs it in the air. Finds Ferguson at deep midwicket. Tromp throws his head back in utter disappointment 135/511.5 Ravindra has Narine dragging on for a duck. 93.2ks back of a length and speared across off from left-arm around. Narine has a lazy swing at it with no feet and ends up sending an inside edge back onto his own stumps 111/414.6 on a length and ducks back in to beat the inside edge and strike the pad. Given out lbw on the field. Is this heading down the leg side? Powell thinks so and calls for a review. Don't think Powell hit this, though. Flat line on UltraEdge. Ball-tracking indicates that it would've crashed into leg stump. Powell has to depart 136/617.4 The ball sticks in the hands of Dwarshuis! These chances just have to stick. Fiercely drilled back to the bowler. Dwarshuis was shaping to take evasive action, but the ball hits his upper body and sticks in his hands. Holder goes and with it LAKR's hopes? 152/718.1 Netravalkar goes for the yorker and narrowly misses his length, but does enough to have Hamilton holing out to long-on. Pretty full on middle, Hamilton gets more height as opposed to distance. Owen completes a simple catch at long-on 154/819.3 full-toss, pushed across off from round the stumps. Badar can't middle it. Ends up slicing it in the air to sweeper cover, where Ferguson completes the catch. LAKR are in danger of being bowled out 164/919.4 And LAKR have been dismissed for 164 in the final. Pretty full and angling across off from round the stumps. Owen keeps hugging these wide lines. Ali Khan drives hard at it and edges it behind. Gous dives across to his right and snaffles the catch 164/10Extras5 (lb 1, w 4)TOTAL164 all out (19.4 Overs, RR: 8.33)Fall of wickets: 1-66 (Andre Fletcher, 7.3 ov), 2-66 (Andre Russell, 7.5 ov), 3-109 (Colin Munro, 11.3 ov), 4-111 (Sunil Narine, 11.5 ov), 5-135 (Matthew Tromp, 14.2 ov), 6-136 (Rovman Powell, 14.6 ov), 7-152 (Jason Holder, 17.4 ov), 8-154 (Jahmar Hamilton, 18.1 ov), 9-164 (Saif Badar, 19.3 ov), 10-164 (Ali Khan, 19.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SN Netravalkar 4 0 23 1 5.75 10 1 1 1 0 BJ Dwarshuis 4 0 31 3 7.75 9 3 1 0 0 LH Ferguson 4 0 32 0 8 7 3 1 1 0 MJ Owen 1.4 0 14 2 8.4 4 1 1 0 0 N Chaudhary 2 0 32 2 16 3 1 4 0 0 R Ravindra 3 0 23 2 7.66 8 2 1 2 0 IG Holland 1 0 8 0 8 1 1 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.2 No seeing off, it'll be walking off. Owen looks to force the issue and floats a catch to mid-off. 58ks shortish ball just outside off, there to be hit, Owen went hard with the flat-bat, got it too high. Bounce was his undoing. The canny Narine has gotten him three times this season 12/14.5 Genius cometh in many forms. Bowling and captaincy in this case. Such a big moment even Narine lets go a 'come on' and raises his fists. That's like a cartwheel in Narine's books. Smith done for pace and lack of room. 93ks back of lengther on off. He was standing with an open stance and went for the cut. Ball fires under the bat and splays the stumps. Front-of-the-hand release, may have straightened a touch. Top of off. 2.69 degrees of turn in, Hawk-Eye confirms 29/34.2 And that's why Narine's brought back. Thought it was a bad ball at first but no. It wasn't too straight, Ravindra just tried to sweep it off a length from just outside off. 93ks, good bonce again. Takes the top edge, shot wasn't all that powerful. Short fine leg runs back and takes it neatly 27/215.4 Skewered to point and look at LAKR celebrate! Holder runs to cover, Russell at cover point, mimicked biting the ball after taking it and slams the ball into the turf. Narine is flooded by team-mates, it's a party for them. Gous, Freedom's main main, got across and looked to reverse-scoop a fullish ball angling away. Toed it off the outer-half. Is that the game?! 109/613.3 Low full toss does the trick. Holder's pumped. Looked like the ball slipped out of the hand, finished shin-high just outside off. Driven flat and high to cover. Bat opened up in the hand. Narine doesn't get a wicket in his final over, but one falls from the other end anyway. 400 T20 wickets for Holder 94/413.6 It's a day of doube-wicket overs! Slow short ball has been pulled straight to the fielder. Holder finger-pistols his celebrations, going boom boom x 10, having turned the game again. The height, at the head, was what Dwarshuis had to control. 96/519.2 Too far across and Schalkwyk blasts through the back door! That's hit middle stump, would you that's how far across Pienaar had gotten. Scrambled-seam yorker, beat the flick as the batter wasn't behind it 157/719.6 ONE BUT NOT TWO, LAKR WIN THEIR MAIDEN MLC TITLE IN THEIR FIRST FINAL! The entire team is running on adrenaline, Bravo's beating them all. Now he's dancing with the team, fireworks go off. Ponting's stoic but you can feel the dismay. It was that close. This looked like two when Milantha reached forward and got the yorker towards the vacant mid-on area despite being early into the shot. He had to cover a greater distance than the non-striker, who started early. Schalkwyk ran back towards the ball like his life depended on it. Throw was wide to the keeper, the fielder at the non-striker's took off the bails in sheer adrenaline. Hamilton, in front of the stumps, reached out and took out the stumps like Buttler did in the 2019 WC final. 163/919.3 Goodness! Thought that was six at first but that's gone to Holder, miles inside the long-off boundary. Holland got across, Schalkwyk went wide and fullish. Finished on the tramline, Holland was off-balance but did well to slap it. Off the bottom of the bat, Holder takes it and is as charged as he was at the first ball. TWO IN TWO FOR SCHALKWYK 157/8Extras11 (lb 2, w 9)TOTAL163/9 (20 Overs, RR: 8.15)Did not bat: SN NetravalkarFall of wickets: 1-12 (Mitchell Owen, 2.2 ov), 2-27 (Rachin Ravindra, 4.2 ov), 3-29 (Steven Smith, 4.5 ov), 4-94 (Nikhil Chaudhary, 13.3 ov), 5-96 (Ben Dwarshuis, 13.6 ov), 6-109 (Andries Gous, 15.4 ov), 7-157 (Obus Pienaar, 19.2 ov), 8-157 (Ian Holland, 19.3 ov), 9-163 (Lahiru Milantha, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB SP Narine 4 0 13 3 3.25 13 0 0 1 0 JO Holder 4 0 31 3 7.75 10 2 2 1 0 Ali Khan 4 0 40 0 10 8 6 1 1 0 AD Russell 4 0 27 0 6.75 8 1 1 0 0 SC van Schalkwyk 4 0 50 2 12.5 7 2 4 2 0
Match Details
Toss
Washington Freedom , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Player Of The Series
Series result
Los Angeles Knight Riders won the 2026 Major League Cricket
Season
Hours of play (local time)
16.30 start, First Session 16.30-18.00, Interval 18.00-18.20, Second Session 18.20-19.50
Match days
18 July 2026 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 54 runs, 0 wicket)
- Over 3.6: Review by Washington Freedom (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - GO Brathwaite, Batter - C Munro (Struck down)
- Los Angeles Knight Riders: 50 runs in 5.5 overs (35 balls), Extras 2
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (C Munro 14, ADS Fletcher 38, Ex 2)
- Los Angeles Knight Riders: 100 runs in 9.5 overs (59 balls), Extras 2
- Over 14.6: Review by Los Angeles Knight Riders (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - WR Knights, Batter - R Powell (Struck down)
- Los Angeles Knight Riders: 150 runs in 17.1 overs (103 balls), Extras 5
- Innings Break: Los Angeles Knight Riders - 164/10 in 19.4 overs (SC van Schalkwyk 3)
- Over 0.1: Review by Washington Freedom (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - GO Brathwaite, Batter - MJ Owen (Upheld)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 35 runs, 3 wickets)
- Washington Freedom: 50 runs in 8.3 overs (51 balls), Extras 4
- Drinks: Washington Freedom - 65/3 in 10.0 overs (AGS Gous 22, N Chaudhary 15)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 38 balls (AGS Gous 24, N Chaudhary 21, Ex 6)
- Washington Freedom: 100 runs in 14.3 overs (87 balls), Extras 10
- Washington Freedom: 150 runs in 18.4 overs (112 balls), Extras 11
- AJ Pienaar: 50 off 23 balls (3 x 4, 5 x 6)
Match Coverage
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