Ashwin’s debut in MLC (Photo: PTI)
Texas Super Kings vs San Francisco Unicorns: The fourth match of the fourth season of Major League Cricket i.e. MLC was played between San Francisco Unicorns and Texas Super Kings. San Francisco Unicorns won this match by 7 wickets. This is the first win for San Francisco Unicorns in the 2 matches played so far in MLC 2026. Earlier, it had lost to Los Angeles Knight Riders in its opening match. Luhan Dre Pretorius, who played with Vaibhav Suryavanshi in IPL, played a big role in giving San Francisco Unicorns their first win, who helped in pushing brother-in-law’s team Texas Super Kings to defeat. The big thing is that Ashwin also made his debut in Major League Cricket in this match.
Brother-in-law and brother-in-law play with Texas Super Kings
Now you might be wondering why we are calling Texas Super Kings a brother-in-law team? So that is because the relationship between the captain of this team, Faf du Plessis and the bowler Hards Villajoon is the same in true sense. Hards Villajoen is married to Faf du Plessis’s sister. This brother-in-law and brother-in-law duo made a record against San Francisco Unicorns but could not lead their team to victory.
Brother-in-law and brother-in-law made a record
As soon as he took the field against San Francisco Unicorns, Faf du Plessis became the player to play the most matches against Texas Super Kings with 21 matches. He broke the record of Calvin Savage in this matter. Whereas Hards Wilson first made a record 36 run partnership with Donovan Ferreira for the 8th wicket for Texas Super Kings. Then he added 14 runs with Nandre Berger for the 10th wicket, which is the highest partnership for this wicket by Texas in Major League Cricket.
Texas Super Kings, playing first, scored 152 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Riley Rousseau scored the maximum 36 runs for this team. Hards Wilson was the second top scorer of the team by playing an unbeaten inning of 33 runs. Faf du Plessis scored only 6 runs in this milestone match.
Ashwin was ineffective on his debut but the team won
Ashwin made his debut for San Francisco but his performance was not that strong. He could not even bowl the full 4 overs of his quota. Ashwin bowled 2 overs and gave away 24 runs without taking any wicket. The effect of Ashwin’s bowling was not visible but his team San Francisco Unicorns was successful in winning the match.
The one who played with Vaibhav Suryavanshi made the team win
San Francisco Unicorns achieved the target of 153 runs given by Texas Super Kings in just 17.5 overs. Luhan Dry Pretorius, who played with Vaibhav Suryavanshi in IPL, played a big role in this spectacular victory. Luhan Dre Pretorius, playing in IPL 2026 from Rajasthan Royals, while opening against Texas Super Kings, scored unbeaten 69 runs in 55 balls, which included 8 fours and 1 six. Meaning that once he came to the crease, he returned only after achieving victory. For this brilliant performance he was also chosen Player of the Match.
