San Francisco Unicorns vs Seattle Orcas Match Prediction & Betting Tips – MLC 2024
San Francisco Unicorns will take on Seattle Orcas at the Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas in Match 18 of the 2024 Major League Cricket. This game gets underway at 20:30 local time on Saturday 20th July 2024.
SFU vs SOR, Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas Pitch Report
This looks like being another pitch in Dallas which provides more assistance for the bowlers than for the batters. Whoever bats first will feel they are very much in the contest if they post 150+.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for San Francisco Unicorns vs Seattle Orcas, Major League Cricket 2024
San Francisco Unicorns Team News & Playing 11
SFU Team News
Victories over Seattle Orcas and MI New York in their last two games have seen San Francisco Unicorns move up the table and they are now unbeaten from their last three matches. They will be relishing the chance to lockhorns with the Orcas again who they beat by 23 runs only five days before this fixture.
SFU Team Batting
Even with their top four batters producing just eight runs and seeing the team struggle on 19/4 in the last game, San Francisco Unicorns showed that they have depth in their batting order by going onto win that match. In this fixture, Seattle Orcas will know there is batting ability all the way through the side.
SFU Team Bowling
With the ball, Brody Couch and Matthew Short opened the bowling in their win over MI New York and took five wickets between them. Seven bowlers were used by captain Corey Anderson in that game and we expect a similar number to be called upon in this fixture.
SFU Team Form
Another win for San Francisco Unicorns will mean they have won three successive games in the tournament.
San Francisco Unicorns Predicted Playing 11
Finn Allen, Matthew Short, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Josh Inglis (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Hassan Khan, Corey Anderson (c), Pat Cummins, Haris Rauf, Liam Plunkett, Brody Couch
Seattle Orcas Team News & Playing 11
SOR Team News
One point adrift at the bottom of the table, it has not been a happy 2024 MLC for Seattle Orcas who have won just one of their five matches so far in the campaign. They come into this match after a four wicket defeat against Los Angeles Knight Riders in Match 15.
SOR Team Batting
Although most observers would probably pick out the likes of Aaron Jones or Quinton de Kock and Heinrich Klaasen as Seattle Orcas’ best batters, there can be no doubt that opener Ryan Rickelton has been their standout player. He comes into this game after hitting seven fours and six sixes in the last match.
SOR Team Bowling
Seattle Orcas’ bowling unit took six wickets in their last game and they will need to improve on that if they are to stop the strong batting line up of San Francisco Unicorns in this fixture. Cameron Gannon and Harmeet Singh both took two wickets for the Orcas in their last match.
SOR Team Form
Seattle Orcas come into this match hoping to avoid their fourth successive defeat.
Seattle Orcas Predicted Playing 11
Ryan Rickelton, Shehan Jayasuriya, Quinton de Kock (wk), Heinrich Klaasen (c), Aaron Jones, Michael Bracewell, Keemo Paul, Harmeet Singh, Cameron Gannon, Lungi Ngidi, Ali Sheikh
🏆 San Francisco Unicorns vs Seattle Orcas Prediction
With Seattle Orcas at the bottom of the table with only one win so far in the competition, they would be likely to struggle against any opposition. As it is, they are up against one of the in-form teams and we are backing San Francisco Unicorns to win this fixture.
