On Sunday, July 16 (Monday, July 17 IST), at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, the Major League Cricket 2023 match between the Los Angeles Knight Riders and MI New York will continue. After giving up a defeat in each team’s initial game, both teams are in a similar situation.
MI Los Angeles Knight Riders suffered a 69-run defeat at the hands of Texas Super Kings while New York lost by 22 runs to the San Francisco Unicorns. New York is rated fifth (second last) after their first defeat, while Los Angeles is last in the points standings. Both clubs will be anxious to win the game and earn two crucial points going into it.
LAKR vs MINY Match Details
Los Angeles Knight Riders vs MI New York, Match 6, MLC 2023
Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas
Date & Time: Monday, July 17, 6:00 AM IST
Broadcast & Live Streaming Details: Sports18 and JioCinema
Grand Prairie Stadium pitch report
Teams that bat first have won three games out of the four matches so far at the venue in the event. The highest goal chased is 145, and the average first innings score when batting first is 179. Considering the venue’s past performance, the captain who wins the toss is likely to elect to bat first.
MINY vs. LAKR Potential Starting XI
LAKR, or Los Angeles Knight Riders
Nitish Kumar, Rilee Rossouw, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine (c), Martin Guptill, Unmukt Chand, Jaskaran Malhotra (wk), Lockie Ferguson, Corne Dry, Ali Khan, and Adam Zampa
New York, MI (MINY)
Trent Boult, Dewald Brevis, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Hammad Azam, Steven Taylor, Kieron Pollard (c), Sarabjit Ladda, Ehsan Adil, Monank Patel, and Sarabjit Ladda
Most Likely Best Batter
Nicholas Pooran
The West Indian batsman has been in outstanding form this season, scoring 350 runs in seven innings and 358 runs in IPL 2023, totaling two hundreds. The Southpaw will be ready to go big in the second game after a stellar cameo of 40 (28) in the first game.
Most likely Best Bowler
Trent Boult
One of the deadliest new ball bowlers is the New Zealand seamer. He had an outstanding IPL 2023 season, taking 13 wickets from ten games and even bowling three new ball maidens. Boult will be anxious for another wicket-taking performance in the following game after picking up 2/38 in four overs in the first match.