In the ongoing Major Cricket League 2023, Pakistan pacemaker Haris Rauf dismantled Glenn Phillips for a duck with a deadly yorker during the Washington Freedom vs. San Francisco Unicorns game. Playing for San Francisco, Haris Rauf launched a ferocious yorker that castled the New Zealand batter.
Haris Rauf also came up with an impressive bowling show in his spell. The right-arm pacer grabbed 3 wickets in his 4 overs after conceding just 20 runs. He grabbed 3 wickets in his first three over himself.
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After San Francisco Unicorns losing his first wicket, Haris Rauf hunted down the next three batsmen to blow up his top order entirely. Rauf dismissed Andries Gous for 23, Glenn Phillips for a duck and Mukhtar Ahmed for just 1 run.
Watch- Haris Rauf dismantles Glenn Phillips for a duck with Deadly Yorker
Of his three wickets, the most striking dismissal of Haris Rauf was that of glenn phillips. Rauf dismissed him in his first delivery of the 6 over. He threw a lethal yorker that ripped Glenn’s stump off before he could reach the ball with the bat.
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The video went viral on social media. San Francisco Unicorns also shared the video on their Twitter account. Take a look at the video below.
A lightning bolt from Haris!#MajorLeagueCricket #MLC2023 #SFOUnicorns pic.twitter.com/P2MiIHLifb
— San Francisco Unicorns (@SFOUnicorns) July 22, 2023
In the same over, Rauf also fired Mukhtar Ahmed with a Marcus Stonis catch up the middle. As a result, the Washington Freedom lost 4 wickets for 33 runs on the board after the powerful play.
Later, the San Francisco Unicorns were shut out for just 103 in the second inning, trailing by 30 runs. Corey Anderson scored a team-high 34 runs. However, left-arm pacer Saurabh Netravalkar searched for 6 wickets to crush the San Francisco Unicorns batsmen in the match.
After the defeat against washington liberty, San Francisco Unicorns rank fourth in the points table. With 2 wins and 2 losses in 4 games, they have 4 points.
They won their first game against MI New York by 22 runs, but then lost to the Seattle Orcas in the next clash. Later, they crushed the Los Angeles Knight Riders by 21 runs, but lost to the Washington Freedom by 30 runs in their previous match.
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