San Francisco Unicorns vs Washington Freedom, Challenger (Loser of Q v Winner of E), Major League Cricket 2026 - Player HighlightsSFU vs WAF, Challenger (Loser of Q v Winner of E), Major League Cricket 2026 - Player Highlights

Haris Rauf to Nikhil Chaudhary, SIX, full and on the pads, Nikhil gets under it and flicks it over backward square leg for a timely maximum. Haris Rauf goes into the 50s in his spell, poor effort from the senior pro

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, 1 run, swung away, doesn't carry to deep square leg. Full and on the stumps, Gous swings and gets away with it

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, wide, wide yorker, too wide this time

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, FOUR, heyyy! That is absolutely cruel! Haris Rauf thought he nailed a very good yorker. How on earth did Gous manage to get so much power on that shot? In fact he's timed it so well that they had to check if it carried all the way. Long-on didn't have to move much and he still couldn't cut it off to the left

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, FOUR, it's the wide yorker, it's an outside edge this time and it's flown between Lhuan-dre Pretorius and the short third man fielder. Gous reaches out and looks to slap hard, thick edge escapes to the boundary

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, no run, wide yorker outside off stump, Gous toe-ends the squeeze to the right of Lhuan-dre Pretorius, who moves quickly to deny the boundary

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, FOUR, yorker attempted but it's sprayed full on the pads, Gous tickles it fine to the right of short fine leg. Short calls his bowler for a discussion

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, 1 run, driven to long-on and that's another important fifty from Gous. Gently raises the bat to the dugout and the crowd

Haris Rauf to Nikhil Chaudhary, leg byes, 1 run, again some reverse, Nikhil advances to slog, misses, ball rolls to third man off the pad

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, leg byes, thuds the pad, seems like missing leg, long thought for the review and Short takes a review only to chance his arm. He actually didn't want to. Never listen to the bowlers they say. Full and swinging back in, Gous misses the flick, there is reverse swing, ball hits the back pad and it never looked straight enough. Missing leg

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, FOUR, healthy outside edge and lucky for Gous that it splits the keeper and short third to perfection. Short of a length delivery outside off stump, Gous looks to swing hard, gets a thick edge that escapes for four

Haris Rauf to Nikhil Chaudhary, 1 run, short of length delivery on the off stump, wristed to deep mid-wicket

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, 1 run, good length delivery angling in, mistimed slog rolls to deep mid-wicket

Haris Rauf to Rachin Ravindra, no run, good length delivery, Rachin defends. Pretty good comeback from Haris Rauf after the first ball six

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, leg byes, 1 run, full and down the leg-side, Gous misses the flick, ball hits the pad and rolls behind square off the pad

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, no run, thuds the pad but missing leg! Short of a length delivery angling in, Gous misses the flick and wears it on the thigh pad

Haris Rauf to Andries Gous, 2 runs, full delivery on the leg stump, flicked to deep mid-wicket and they get two

Haris Rauf to Rachin Ravindra, 1 run, full delivery outside off stump, drives to deep point

Haris Rauf to Rachin Ravindra, SIX, slogged! Short of a length delivery on the stumps, Rachin waits and smashes it over mid-wicket. Haris Rauf has to get act right here, otherwise the Unicorns will be staring at a big total

Haris Rauf to Mitchell Owen, FOUR, front leg clearance for a big swing, slogged along the ground. Deep mid-wicket dives to the left and the ball still wins the race. 16 off the over and the Freedom finally are able to get going.

Haris Rauf to Steven Smith, 1 run, the hard length now, Smith taps it to mid-on

Haris Rauf to Steven Smith, SIX, if the idea was to bowl short it had to be shorter. This ball sat up for Smith to smash the pull and he obliged. Maybe he just wanted to bowl hard length and missed the mark. Smith stood tall to this short ball and backed himself to clear the man at deep mid-wicket

Haris Rauf to Steven Smith, FOUR, Smith attacks now, doesn't get hold of it but it is still good enough to clear the infield and escape for four over wide mid-on. Length delivery on the stumps, another slot ball, Smith looks to smash it hard, gets a four. Short immediately has a word with his bowler as he's bowled two slot balls already

Haris Rauf to Steven Smith, no run, slogs and misses! Smith lost shape early on the shot as he tried to hit it too hard. Haris Rauf bowled this into the wicket and got it to slightly nip back in to beat the bat

Haris Rauf to Mitchell Owen, 1 run, oh got away with a slot ball, Owen wanted to smash it over mid-wicket, mistimed it along the ground to deep mid-wicket