The Los Angeles Waves were locked in a losing streak in the first two games. However, the team led by Shakib Al Hasan has recovered from that situation with two consecutive wins. Los Angeles beat Dallas Loonesters by 28 runs in the T-Ten edition of the United States National Cricket League.
Los Angeles gets a big pick by batting first in Dallas on Friday (October 11). They scored 139 runs losing 2 wickets in 10 overs. Shakib didn’t have to bat on this day. Opening batsman George Mansi played a role in bringing the team a big collection.
Mansi remained unbeaten by playing a devastating innings of 80 runs off just 36 balls with 5 fours and 8 sixes. Besides, Adam Rossington scored 26 off 10 balls, Tim David scored 23 off 9 balls. Stephen Eskinazi scored 4 runs off 6 balls and left the field unbeaten.
In reply, the two openers of Dallas Lonestars, Shoaib Maqsood and Colin Munro, were indicating a good start. However, none of the two could increase the innings. Shoaib returned to Sajghar with 10 off 8 balls and Munro 15 off 8 balls. Then Dallas came under pressure.
But Dallas Indian star Dinesh Karthik was dreaming. A storming pairing with Chris Green bodes well. But in the end they could not. Green scored 21 with two four-sixes from 7 balls and Karthik departed with 14 runs from 7 balls with two sixes.
Hayden Walsh scored the last try. His unbeaten innings of 30 off 14 balls reduced the margin of defeat. Finally, at the end of the scheduled 10 overs, Dallas was able to score 111 runs after losing 7 wickets. Los Angeles won by a huge margin of 28 runs.
Shakib spent 25 runs in return for one wicket after bowling 2 overs.
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