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(Introduction)
This is Major League cricket in 2025. Hello everyone and welcome to T20 to beat with your co-hosts Jit Shetty and Toby Amodeo.

(Jit)
Hello and welcome back to T20 to beat with me, your host Jit Shetty and my great friend and co-host Toby Amodeo. We are continuing our venture in the league so far, now into probably the mid stages or the latter stages of the tournament. How quickly time flies as the tournament approaches the end of its second leg in Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

What awesome action we've seen so far. Just want to welcome my co-host online today. Toby, how's it going, dude?

(Toby)
It's going great. Just so you know, I am locked in on this tournament. We've been watching this tournament every single night. This week I am ready to talk about some MLC, how about you?

(Jit)
Honestly, I have been locked in as well. This has been such a fun tone. You know, if you see who the leading run scorers in the leading wicket takers are, the guys who do really well on the T20 circuit and for the respective countries. But at the same time, it's been so good to see these relative unknowns actually, that's kind of been the surprise package for me.

You know, seeing guys from the renowned cricket nations who probably are up and coming and are just they're just flourishing, particularly a few opening batters that will go onto as we talk about this a bit more. And on top of that, obviously it's been great to see more and more American talent duo, the people involved in the teams, they want to.

Obviously they want their teams to win, but I think if you like, a good way to judge and measure the success of the tournament is also how the homegrown talent is doing. So I think we've seen that all in good measure. Yeah, absolutely. We've been talking offline about the people that we've been trying to push through to watch this tournament.

Have you been able to kind of convince people that you know anyone close to you to get involved and follow the action this year?

(Toby)
I've been doing my darndest to, my friends Bethany and Richie told me that they had picked some teams, Bethany picked the unicorns, and Richie picked the orcas. And, you know, I feel great for Bethany and maybe not so great for Richie.

Sorry, Richie, for a preview show Let You Astray. I think one of the challenges of this tournament is you have to have a sling subscription, or you have to live in the right city and have a local news network covering the matches. I think that's one of the hardest parts about breaking the market, is that cricket is kind of famously bad at TV rights, but there are people that are excited about it.

I know that there's a contingent of people out there that are watching this tournament. I am really curious what that looks like here in Raleigh, but I haven't had a chance to really dig into any sort of conversations about that here.

(Jit)
No, that sounds great. I think the more, even if it's just a few people, it's it's cool to see that impact. Right? I feel like even if it's just one person or a couple of people, that via word of mouth were able to kind of spread, you know, how we feel about just the sport of, you know, T20 cricket and, you know, the passion we both of just to see American cricket grow and to see the product of this domestic competition grow.

And I think that's great, people just to reach you. For me, that's, kind of unfortunate, isn't it?

(Toby)
I mean, they're falling apart completely. It's, Well, we'll come on to it. Maybe we'll get into some of these episodes and then we'll chat about that a little bit more.

(Jit)
So we're going to start with game one of the Dallas leg. Dude, do you want to run us through what happened between the Texas Super Kings and San Francisco Unicorns a week ago?

(Toby)
Yeah, absolutely. This was a top of the table clash at the time. Texas Super Kings were number two in the table and the unicorns being unbeaten were at number one. Texas Super Kings started off very, very strong.
Faf du Plessis scored a really, really wonderful century and then got out. You know, as you do at the tail end of an innings, he made his contribution for the side as the captain. He was dismissed by Harris Rauf, which, of course, he was dismissed by Harris Rauf for the unicorns. But after that Texas kind of lost their way a little bit.

And even though they ended up with a score of 198 for five wickets, they seemed to kind of leave some runs on the table in the last 3 to 4 overs. And San Francisco, they came out strong, man. They they made that total look easy, finishing on a score of 202 for the loss of three wickets, and it only took them 16.1 overs.

It was a clinical batting performance and really made Faf beautiful century go in vain. What do you say to Faf du Plessis after that game?

(Jit)
Well, can you say it doesn't do it justice, does it? Does it? I mean, you can't say, oh, you know, I'm more happy that I scored 100 even though we lost. Oh, I would hope that's not the case because I mean I watched it was beautiful innings from Faf.

I mean, I think if you're hitting the ball that nicely, then I feel like you deserve to feel good about yourself. You know, even though obviously it's it really sucks when you have a few guys from the opposition just make it look like a cakewalk. They made one nine to look like probably like 158 almost. I mean, you know, the way Finn Allen played against Corey Anderson being, you know, that designated captain, you know, out injured in the last few games.

but Matt Short stepped into the role as the stand in beautifully. Hey, man. Finn Allen's examples of, you know, two guys that we mentioned earlier who are probably fringe players for their countries, you know, much more for Australia and then Finland for New Zealand, but have both made such. They've just left such a long lasting impression on cricket matches this tournament.

Feel sorry for Faf, but I guess what would you rather, would you rather score 100 or would you rather school an impact for, you know, 60 or 70 and your team wins? And I think I know which one I'd probably prefer.

(Toby)
Yeah. Well and you know, you say that I think Texas, they looked in it for most of their innings until the tail end of it. once they started losing wickets, they lost some kind of in a clump. I mean, they lost their first wicket on 97. They lost Devon Conway. They didn't really ever seem to lose their way. But once Faf departed, you know they lost Faf. They were 166 runs for the loss of three wickets. And just for those who might not understand, wickets in cricket is basically like an out in baseball, but way more costly because you only bat once.

once Faf got out, they still had plenty of batting to come, but they lost Stoinis you know, two runs later essentially. So after that it just kind of seemed all over. But like you say Jit, I think the unicorns, they've kind of got this all round batting performance going where Matt Short came in and really put his hand up and made a case for having to include him in the team.

I mean, when Corey Anderson gets healthy, where does he fit into this lineup? I mean, you bring in Matt Short and Finland to open. Good luck. They both score a pile of runs. You've got Jake Fraser McGurk who's also having really an incredible season. on the bowling side of things for the unicorns, It really is a tale of Harris Rauf

(Jit)
Dial Harris Rauf for a wicket really I mean, on demand he delivers.
You know your predictions come true about him really enjoying pictures in America. He clearly loves bowling. The ultimate fast bowler is a point of difference bowler. And this is this is proof living proof of it. Those guys that just have that little bit of, you know, extra speed on the ball, the reaction time just has to be that much quicker.

You know, when you're challenged with the short ball or even the length ball, even when the slow one comes, it just seems like a huge surprise. And, you know, your bearings are just they just have to be that little bit off to then cut you off. God. And I think that is a huge gift that horror show us. They just need to look at him and say, please change the game, get me a wicket. And he delivers. So yeah, he's done. He's done a great job.

(Toby)
Another team that's done a great job selecting, We'll move on to this next game here. Match 11 with the Washington Freedom going against Mumbai Indians New York. This game was a bit nervy. Did you watch this one live.

(Jit)
Yeah a great game. Yeah.

(Toby)
This one had me on the edge of my seat after Mumbai set that score.
It was the second game in Dallas. We weren't really sure how the pitches were going to go. They ended up scoring 188 for four, which you felt like was a pretty good total. Washington Freedom seemed to be on track for it, but then they lost wickets regularly, so they never really seemed like definite. This one swung back and forth like a pendulum the whole time.

I didn't feel comfortable predicting anything that was going to happen, but eventually Washington Freedom got over the line. With just four balls remaining, they scored 189 runs for the loss of eight wickets. Credit to Mumbai. They kept themselves in the game with some great bowling performances, but they just ultimately weren't able to, to get over the line.

(Jit)
You know, they got a bit of a stinker with these last over finishes of the day, whether it was the first two, you know, two lost over finishes in Oakland. You know both of them went against them. And now this one they're also up against it. MI New York in this tournament. It's interesting the way the table is because I think in a way they've actually benefited from the fact that the top three teams have run away with it and the bottom three teams have had had really poor seasons.

So like, if they just I think all they really need to do is just get 1 or 2 wins and they can still in fought because of how much the other teams have run away with, you know, San Francisco being six from six, you know, Texas and Washington having won four games. Each of them I need to do really is to just find a way, probably to win, you know, 1 or 2 more games then you never know.

Maybe if they just scrape in to that fourth spot, we might be able to see them do or at least draw them in what Indians do, which is to flourish in playoffs. But yeah, they're having a tough time this year man.

(Toby)
you kind of look at this scorecard from this game against the freedom that they had.

Monank Patel 32 off 20 I mean that's a nice quick opening. Quinton de Kock 55 off 34 balls. It's not like they don't have batting and they're not scoring runs. It's just that they can't seem to score quite enough runs. And one other thing that we've seen in this tournament, the fielding in this tournament, has been, I think you'd say relatively poor.

There's been a lot of dropped catches from pretty much every team.

(Jit)
Yeah. It's it's left a bit to be desired hasn't it. Yeah. At least to Oakland I thought maybe it can perhaps be quite hard to get to. It can be quite difficult to get used to new ground dimensions because it's a baseball ground or stadium that's been converted into a cricket stadium.

(Toby)
You can definitely lose a cricket ball in these really high rise giant seats. I guess it's easier to lose a ball in that. But yeah, in Dallas there's there's honestly no excuse. The fielding in Dallas has surprised me because they should know about now here's a you know this is a new to them. You know this is the third season that, you know, they've been playing on this ground.

So surprised me a bit. As the saying goes, catches win matches. And there's been a lot of games this tournament where if the catching was better or if just the general fielding was better and not. I'm not even talking about field placement. They're not doing a good job of even keeping it in front of them. It'll sail behind them or they'll go through somebody's legs and often go towards the boundary and give four runs away cheaply, when it should have been 1 or 2.

I think that a lot of teams are really at that, are at the bottom of the table and really struggling with that. But at the same time, I don't want to take too much away from the Washington freedom here because they did a great job managing this chase, even if they lost some wickets regularly. One guy I just want to make sure we bring up two guys actually out of this team.

One is Mitchell Owen. He scored 60 runs off of 26 balls. And he also, took a wicket and made two catches. So he had a fantastic game for the freedom. And then another guy to bring up is Mark Chapman. He's a he's a great little find for them. I mean he's 30 years old. He's been playing for a while.

He was born in Hong Kong. Kind of an odd pathway into cricket. But he's been doing a really great job batting. And just like his presence out at the crease, whenever the freedom or batting.

I think we're going to talk about match number 12 Seattle Acres and the LA Knight Riders. Yeah man it's hard right? Like I it yeah just not a good performance all around. Seattle scored 177 for the loss of six. And they allowed the Knight Riders to beat them in 18.2 overs 178 for the loss of four. I mean, you know, I think that the LA Knight Riders should feel a lot better about themselves now that they've got some points, because it seemed like they were starting to get a few things to kind of go their way, particularly, Unmukt Chand.

He came out and scored 86 runs for them off of just 58 deliveries. That is a lot of intent. And gee, that's an American batsman right there.

(Jit)
Did you know he was the he's actually an under 19 World Cup winning captain with India in 2012. I don't know if he was touted as like the next Virat Kohli or something. But he was definitely seen as you know, one of the next really promising big bodies coming through the Indian system as I said, this is where a tournament like major league has been superb because it's given players like Unmukt Chant the new lease of life. Right. You know, almost a second coming in cricket. and just, just to extend that point a bit further, but I think it's really nice to see him have that partnership with another under 19 World Cup player, Saif Bhadar, who was born in Sialkot in Pakistan and is now, you know, playing in the US.

(Toby)
And moving right along here to, the next match, number 13 Texas Super Kings in Washington. Freedom. This promised to be a good game and it delivered. when the Washington Freedom win it, It's the highest ever run chase in Major League cricket. And they did it with just two balls remaining. Texas Super Kings batting first most improved batting performance here.

They scored 220 for six because this time when they lost, Faf on 69, the rest of their batting showed up. They had a couple guys lower down the order who scored some quick, easy runs and made an impact and got them to a very, very respectable total. However, Washington Freedom seemed to chase it with relative ease, finishing it with two balls remaining, but they scored 223 for three wickets.

(Jit)
Yeah, Mitch Owen again. That is two, clutch all round performances from Toby. We just talked about his performance in the game you know earlier. And now here he took A34 you know took three wickets and three really important wickets I mean he dismissed you know Faf when Faf was going ballistic. he dismissed Faf slamming partner Smith but told that wicket keeper Texas's wicket keeper.

And he also dismissed the dangerous Donovan Ferreira. You know in the back end of the innings it doesn't strike you as probably as effective as he's made it out to be. You know, I think he's made the most of his the resources at his disposal. And he's found a way to just do a job as a bowler. You can credit Glenn Maxwell, probably for using him in a smart way in, you know, setting, setting some clever fields and for trusting in him.

Then on the back of those three wickets come out, score 89. Seem so unhurried. Unhurried is probably the wrong word because I remember we were messaging about this, while the match was going on. He did take some time to set himself in. What did you make of the way Mitchell and paced his innings? Did you feel that he was a bit too slow and he was able to catch up?

Or do you think that, you know, sometimes in a chase like this, having wickets in hand helps. And he actually timed it right, especially with his colleague at the other end, the USA wicketkeeper Andreis Gous, playing a outstanding innings. Do you feel like he got do you feel he got the game plan right? Mitchell Owen?

(Toby)
I think it's easy to say that he got it right because they won. I think if they had been, you know, five runs short we'd probably be saying it differently. And that's all sport right. But I do think that in this tournament there does seem to be a role for a guy who is able to anchor an innings in T20, which I know I sound like I'm talking about 2011 here. for those who've been watching T20 for a while, you know, anchoring an innings in a T20 is not really in vogue right now.

But it seems like in this tournament, I think with a lot of guys who have not had a lot of playing time together, I think he made the right call in going a bit slow. I do think he could probably could have sped up a little bit earlier on, but I think if I were Mitchell Owen, I'd probably keep doing what I'm doing.

(Jit)
You know, I have a slightly different point of view, which is I think, you know, I'm not so sure about the, you know, I don't know where the probably the end, you know, always justifies the means because I guess it could be true. The you know, he his innings was an excellent one, which it was. And he probably needed to go through the gears, which he did.

But in the final analysis he was on 89 or 52 balls, which in a 220 Chase is, you know, terrific innings, you know, up at the asking rate. At one stage he was 36 of 30 balls. So you're essentially talking five overs of this 20 overs in an innings. And so out of five of those he is batted for five of those and scored 36 runs.

Don't know, on another day. Well, maybe because he's put that pressure on himself to hit out where he then got so you have a guy like Glenn Maxwell, you know, you've got Glenn Maxwell, you've got, you know, Glenn Phillips, both powerful middle order strikers in T20 cricket. There is batting there to cover, you know, someone who doesn't play a big innings but you know, plays an innings, an impactful innings at a certain strike rate.

It's often a game within a game with things like this. You know, some a batter could really be struggling and is able to he sometimes is not. He doesn't top out. He stays in and turn things around. which in its own way, I do acknowledge is also a pretty cool narrative. You know, the it's a cool come back with it again.

(Toby)
Speaking of, you know, wondering whether or not you have enough runs quick enough. This next game, this is another classic all round performance by the San Francisco Unicorns that never really looked in doubt. San Francisco Unicorns top of the table batting first scored 246 runs, only for the loss of four wickets on a day that Finn Allen was out sick.

MI New York, They made an effort of it, but they eventually finished their 20 overs, 199 for the loss of six. Matt Short captained the side again did a great job and scored 91 off of 43 balls. He was bowled by Kieron Pollard, playing in his 700th T20. But you know, milestones aside, not a result that Pollard probably wants to remember.

(Jit)
You know, I mean, that's an incredible milestone. 700 T20s. And for one of the, you know, great T20 players of all time, of all time the way San Francisco batted watching in some ways it was a good ode to Pollard. Wasn't this this game? Some of the 6 hitting we saw was just amazing wasn't it? As you mentioned Matt Short, but then of course Jake Frasier McGurk again, seven sixes in a 26 ball innings.

I think it's just wild. I mean 64 runs. It's innings like that which just kill a game off. You know the impact that that creates is just, you know it goes through the roof. Lest we forget Hassan Khan's innings again. Dude, this kid is something really special. I feel, you know, the consistency that he's shown for a middle order battle for a finish for this tournament.

I think it's been, you know, I'm really impressed by him, you know, to be able to have that skill from the first ball, he can hit boundaries from the start. That's really impressive. I hope to, you know, going forward if possible San Francisco give him maybe more talent just about a bit up the order honestly because I just think this kid's got so much potential.

(Toby)
He's played a good number of T20s. I don't think we've heard of them a ton because they're not leagues that we're super familiar with. But in the Pakistan Super League, he's played a total of 28 matches and he's taken 16 wickets in those. That's not too bad. You know, his best season was in 2016, 2017, in the PSL where he took nine of those wickets.

So maybe a decline in performance over a few years.

(Jit)
Maybe. He seems to be refining himself here a little bit and maybe reinventing himself a touch, bringing that batting really into the equation. I should say he did have a good season last year with the San Francisco Unicorns as well. So this is him backing it up this year, I think, is batting.

It's been a surprise because I was checking in, you know, the Pakistan Super League, the PSL. He's played 28 games, had 17 innings. So 17 chances to bat and has a high score of 24 with a strike rate of 111. So do you see. So I, I guess maybe he's now hitting his, you know, peak year. If not now he's 26 years old.

So he's not as young as I thought he was because I, I thought he was maybe in his early 20s, but he's as you said, he's been around the block. Maybe this is his time to become one of those really well rated, highly reputed T20 finishers.

(Toby)
You know, I feel for, for me in New York here because I think against any other team, maybe apart from the freedom, this would have been a really competitive total and they probably would have went on to win this game.

But unfortunately, the unicorns just, they had set at too high of a bar and it was never really in too much doubt, you know.

(Jit)
Yeah, it was, and to be fair to MI, they did start off really well. I mean, they had 100, 119 run opening partnership. I just wanted to touch on Monank Patel again. We spoke about we spoke about him last time.

Dude, he's having a fantastic tournament, isn't he? And just the consistency. It's been really good to see. You know it's not he's not been a one hit wonder. And now scoring 60 off 33 balls in this game in a big run chase as well. You know when the pressure's on. What is he. You know he's the third leading run scorer in the tournament.

It's really great to see I mean that's great sign. You've got the third and fourth leading run scores in this tournament. Who are both USA players. So great signs.

(Interlude)

(Toby)
Let's chat TSK And the LA Knight Riders. This is another game that felt a little bit more secure. I think if you can ever feel totally secure in a T20, this one was a great game to watch because the Texas Super Kings again scored 196 for the loss of eight wickets. Standout performance by Donovan Ferreira, the L.A. Knight Riders just not really able to bring anything to the table.

They scored 144 for seven. Again, another good performance by an Unmukt Chand, but really, the L.A. Knight Riders are struggling because their top order batsmen are just not showing up when they need them to. I think 196 is a difficult total on this pitch, but it's not ungettable. I feel like they'll think that they missed out because they left some runs on the table, and they could have a much better net run rate if they had scored a little bit quicker.

(Jit)
You can help yourself in a tournament like this where even if you're losing, try and lose by a smaller, a smaller margin as you can when you have really big losses, like, you know, like this, where you lose by over 50 runs. The L.A. Knight Riders have the worst net run rate of all the teams in this, you know, tournament so far.

If they want to stay in contention, they've got to at least try and bowl. They need to win a few more, a few more games that they're doing, but they also need to make sure that they're not losing as badly as they are. So they are 106 for seven after 16.4 overs, which is 100 balls out of the 120.

So you're talking them going around a run a ball I mean, also 83% of their innings. I mean, that's just not good enough, is it? You've got net runs. And then again, well, the two the same two guys who we will have, you know, waxing lyrical about and praising about 15 minutes ago, you can argue the way they played in this case it does.

You know it. They did chew up a lot of balls in there. I mean, you know, Owen worked on scoring 30 of 30 balls, Saif Bhadar scoring 19 of 21 balls. So in between them they faced over 50 balls of the innings and or going at less than or on a ball. That's that really can, you know, dampen your spirits.

(Toby)
Yeah I agree I mean Noor Ahmad, bowling for Texas Super Kings spin phenom from Afghanistan finally found some form in this game. I think that he'll take a lot of confidence from this. But even with him and Marcus Stoinis bowling, well, Ferreira bowling. Well, it it kind of seemed like LA was never really in this from the start.

Just a touch on Noor Ahmad there for a second. Noor was doing great in Oakland. But as soon as they came to Dallas, where we thought he was going to do really well, he struggled for the first couple of games. I think he gave up 22 runs in an over, maybe to Glenn Maxwell, which you're creating in a curve there, depending on which Maxwell shows up.

But here he's been finding some form and he's getting himself back into that highest wicket taker conversation. So just wanted to mention him really quick. but yeah, overall this this game wasn't a fantastic performance, but I had fun watching it. Maybe that's just me.

(Jit)
another member of the bowling attack who did a great job. Akeil Husseinn, who I thought was outstanding.

I mean, wow again, but like a lot of respect for these, you know, spinners, the bowling, the power play, but also can have a day. Would they completely dominate and not a quick loss indeed. I mean three overs two for ten. That is that is an outstanding performance is 11 balls. So 11 balls where he hasn't conceded a run.

I know scorecard can be deceiving sometimes, because there are other guys who have also really contributed. But you know, I think that is a winner, you know, and for the criticism that we're giving the Knight Riders, you've got to also credit the, the bowling, you know, because sometimes the it can be some really high class bowling that restricts and puts that pressure on a batting line up that just doesn't give them that freedom to score.

(Toby)
Maybe the best game of this leg so far, and maybe also one of the most frustrating. Let's chat about the, San Francisco unicorns versus the Seattle Orcas. Now, I just want to make a quick point at the start here. I should have, said this before the game on some sort of social channel, but I knew that this game was going to be a struggle for the unicorns.

I feel like we've seen teams across all of sport go into this exact situation and just drop an absolute terrible game against the worst team in the league and lose. And you know what? For about an innings, I was correct because the San Francisco Unicorns did not look like themselves when they batted first, but then the Seattle Orcas did look like themselves when they added the same.

(Jit)
We've said winning is a habit. So is losing, right? I mean, it's hard to say. I know it's harsh, but you should be doing a lot better from a position of, you know, having a team. What was it, 103 for six. Those are the moments where you really go to seize and they, you know, they just let that game slip.

Really. I mean, of course, huge credit to Romario Shepherd, who is, as we both know, a ferocious T20 finisher. Yeah, I just think that that was a big opportunity missed by the Seattle Orcas. Not just, not just only, with the ball, but you can argue with the bot as well. I mean, they were 66 for one after seven overs when or 66 for non just before seven overs had you know past you know with Shayan Jahangir and David Warner stitching an opening partnership and then even later on, I mean, what would the 124 for five after 15.1 15.2 overs?

I mean they're in the game at every stage. And you know having who did they having at that point they had had Shimron Hetmyer and Gerald Cotzee.

(Toby)
Yeah a lot of opportunities missed. Disappointing. It was the last over of the unicorns innings. I think their score was in the the low one 50s. The Seattle Orcas gave up 20 runs in the final over, and 18 of them came off the bat of Romario Shepherd, who hit three sixes in a row.

I think the Orcas knew that they had let something slip because Shepherd went to hit the fourth six in a row, but didn't quite get all of it. Shimron Hetmyer caught him out on the boundary rope, and when they had the camera on Hetmyer, as he's taking that catch, he does a really remarkable catch, which you can do in cricket, where he catches it, notices that he's going to go over the boundary rope.

So he tosses up in the air, settles himself outside of the boundary, steps back in and takes the catch off of his own throw. He didn't celebrate. Not one bit. Credit to the bowling attack, of course, for the unicorns. But as we said at the start of this podcast, catches win matches and the unicorns. When it counted, they took good regulation catches and I think that's what's made their team.

So all around good is that when they're batting, they're playing to their strengths. When they're bowling, their bowling, their right lines, and they're bowling people when they're doing well in an innings. And their fielding has been top notch.

(Jit)
Two of the teams that have really struggled to show one being, you know, the Seattle Orcas and the other being MI New York.

I think when your captain plays well, it really does fill the whole team with confidence. And I think unfortunately, you know, to outstanding players who we spoke about last time just have had, you know, really poor seasons in, you know, Nicholas Pooran and Heinrich Klaasen. And I think that lack of confidence that maybe they have it's reflective of the entire team now both teams.

(Toby)
Yeah I think that's going to do it there for our seven game review here. But as we go into the rest of this Dallas leg, who do you think's going to come out on top and are there going to be any surprises as we go into the next week of the tournament?

(Jit)
I wouldn't be surprised if we end up seeing a rematch of last year's, you know, final, just given the way the Washington Freedom and particularly the unicorns, I mean, they've really surprised me, just how dominant they've been.

You know, in these first six games, I would still say that hope. No, all hope is not lost, you know, for this year, orcas because as we talked about earlier, because of the very distinct kind of split between the top three teams and the bottom three teams, all it takes is, you know, 1 or 2 wins of Seattle if the orcas can get, you know, just a few wins, just 1 or 2 wins here in the they could just about make it.

You never know. They could just about scrape that fourth that fourth spot. Once you get into knockouts who knows.

(Toby)
Yeah you're exactly right, Jit. Once you get to the knockout stage of a tournament, it is anybody's game. Well, that's going to do it for us. This time. You can catch up with this at T20 to Beat podcast on Instagram.

And if you'd like to share any thoughts or you have any questions, please send those along. DM us. We'll put some more of our handles and stuff into the show notes, but that is going to do it for this time. Catch us next time when we talk about the next few games in Major League cricket, and hope you enjoy the action.