WSF vs SEO Review | Maxwell-led bowling attack helps Washington Freedom outmuscle Seattle Orcas

Washington Freedom skipper Glenn Maxwell won the toss and asked the Orcas to bat first; batting first, SEO failed to survive against WSF’s lethal spin-pace duo of skipper Maxwell and star pacer Saurabh Netravalkar. Maxwell scalped 3 wickets at just 12 runs in his four overs, alongside Netravalkar’s 3 wickets at just 13 runs in his three overs. Besides these two, Jack Edwards also picked 3 wickets, alongside the wicket claimed by Rachin Ravindra.

On the back of these brilliant bowling performances, WSF bundled out the Seattle Orcas at the score of just 82 runs in 17.4 overs. It was only the veteran middle-order batter Heinrich Klaasen who could play an individual knock with a double-digit score of 48 runs off 39 balls, with four sixes.

While chasing the target, WSF’s Rachin Ravindra and Mukhtar Ahmed played the blistering and match-winning knocks of 32 and 36 runs off just 23 and 21 balls to help their side win the game by a massive margin of 8 wickets. Washington Freedom crossed the line in just 9.2 overs, scoring 86/2. Skipper Sikandar Raza and pacer Jasdeep Singh were the only two bowlers to scalp a wicket each for Seattle Orcas in this game.

The Washington skipper, Glenn Maxwell, won the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his match-winning bowling performance of 3 wickets at just 12 runs in his quota of 4 overs, with an outstanding economy rate of just 3.00.