Nicholas Puran’s team won the title of MLC 2025, defeated Washington Freedom by 5 runs in the final
2025 Major League Cricket (MLC) MI New York (MINY) won his second title in three years by defeating Washington Freedom by five runs at the Grand Preity Stadium in Dallas on Monday, 14 July 2025 in the exciting final of the 2025 season. Fast bowler Rushil Ugarkar played an important role in this victory of MI.
Batting first, MI New York scored 180 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. For MI, Quinton de Kock played a brilliant innings of 77 runs in 46 balls with the help of six fours and four sixes. Apart from him, Monank Patel also contributed 28 runs in 22 balls. Washington Freedom bowlers made a good comeback in the middle overs, which proved to be the best locket Ferguson. The New Zealand player took 3 wickets for 21 runs, including D. Kock and Kieron Pollard’s important wickets in the same over.
In response, the Washington Freedom started very poorly, Mitchell Owen and Andrees Gaus became a victim of Trent Bolt without scoring any run in the first over. However, after this, Rachin Ravindra and Jack Edwards shared an 84 -run partnership and brought the team back in the match.
Ravindra scored 70 runs in 41 balls with the help of eight fours and two sixes, while Edwards scored a useful innings of 33 runs in 22 balls. The 16th over led to a decisive turn when Ravindra was caught out on an extra cover off Rushil Ugarkar. After his dismissal, Glenn Philips took the front and scored 48* runs off 30 balls. Philips and captain Glenn Maxwell maintained Washington in the match, but both of these players could not win their team when they wanted 12 runs in the final over.
22 -year -old Rushil Ugarkar, who was elected player of the match, was handed over the ball for the final over and performed brilliantly. He gave only 2 runs off the first four balls. In this over, he also took Maxwell’s wicket. Washington had 10 runs on the last ball, in such a situation, Washington’s hopes fade and MI New York won the match by five runs.
