Washington Freedom performed brilliantly in the final of Major League Cricket 2024 played at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas and defeated San Francisco Unicorns by 96 runs to win the MLC 2024 title.

Captain Steve Smith was the hero of victory for Freedom, who played a quick innings of 88 runs in the match and took his team past 200. Unicorns had got a target of 208 runs to win but they could not even reach close to this target and were all out for 111 runs in 16 overs.

In this match, when Freedom was expecting a big innings from their captain, Smith did not disappoint at all and played a brilliant innings of 88 runs in 52 balls. During this innings, he also hit 7 fours and 6 sixes. One of these 6 sixes was so long that the ball fell on the roof of the stadium.

Fortunately, Smith hit this six against a pacer while sitting on his knees. Smith targeted the opposition bowler Carmi Le Roux and when Carmi Le Roux bowled a length ball on the stumps, Smith sent the ball for a long six over the deep mid-wicket region. Smith's shot had a lot of length and the ball fell on the roof of the stadium.

Washington Freedom head coach Ricky Ponting also looked very impressed with his six.

Talking about this match, Unicorns had got a mountainous target of 208 runs to win, chasing which the Unicorns team needed a good start but it did not happen. Unicorns' dangerous opener Jake Fraser McGurk became the victim of Marco Jensen in the third over after scoring just 3 runs. Finn Allen also got out after scoring just 13 runs and after this the story of Aaya Ram Gaya Ram continued and the result was that the Unicorns team could not even play the full 20 overs and the entire team was out after scoring 111 runs in 16 overs.

Rachin Ravindra and Marco Jensen took the maximum 3-3 wickets for Freedom. At the same time, Steve Smith, who played a match-winning innings, was chosen as the Player of the Match.