Seattle Orcas vs Los Angeles Knight Riders: In the 15th match of MLC 2024, Los Angeles Knight Riders defeated Seattle Orcas by 4 wickets to register their second win in the current season.

Playing first, Seattle Orcas scored 142/6 in 20 overs, in response to which Los Angeles Knight Riders scored 143/6 in 19.1 overs to win the match. Despite the defeat of Seattle Orcas, Ryan Rickelton (89 runs and 2 catches) was named Player of the Match.

Seattle Orcas won the toss and decided to bat first but had a bad start. Opener Shehan Jayasuriya got out on a score of 24 in the fourth over after scoring 2 runs.

At the same time, Quinton de Kock could not even open his account. However, Ryan Rickelton's explosive batting continued from one end and he along with captain Heinrich Klaasen added 64 runs to take the score to 90. Klaasen played a very slow innings and scored 23 runs in 23 balls.

Ryan Rickelton did not get support from other batsmen

However, after his dismissal, Rickelton continued to score runs alone from one end and the batsmen from the other end could not do much. Rickelton scored 89 runs in 52 balls, which included 7 fours and 6 sixes.

Spencer Johnson, Andre Russell, Corny Dry and Sunil Narine took 1-1 wickets for Los Angeles Knight Riders.

Unmukt Chand played an important role in his team's victory

Chasing the target, Seattle Orcas' start was also not very good and captain Sunil Narine returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs. The other opener Jason Roy shared a half-century partnership with Unmukt Chand and took the score to 71. Roy scored 27 runs in 24 balls. David Miller (2) and Nitish Kumar (12) got out cheaply but Unmukt completed his half-century and scored 62 runs in 47 balls.

Andre Russell also contributed 10 runs. Saif Badar remained unbeaten after scoring 18 runs and led the team to victory in the 20th over. Cameron Gannon and Harmeet Singh took 2-2 wickets for Los Angeles Knight Riders.