Texas Super Kings 132 for 4 (Saiteja Mukkamalla 38, Ugarkar 2-16) beat MI New York 127 for 9 (Ferreira 3-14, Milne 2-22) by six wickets
Ferreira got rid of Quinton de Kock first and then Kieron Pollard first ball in the seventh over of the innings, and MI New York were going nowhere at that stage with the scoreboard reading 52 for 5. Nicholas Pooran was going nowhere either, and became the next to fall, to Ferreira again, for three off 11 balls, and if MI New York got to a total that eventually proved competitive, it was down to the lower-order fightback from Corbin Bosch (24 in 27 balls), Sunny Patel, the top-scorer with 26 not out in 24, and Trent Boult (18 in 12).
A target of 128 didn’t look too big, but Super Kings struggled all the way before getting past it.
Importantly for Super Kings, each of their batters got starts, and there was never a collapse of any sort. The partnerships were 28, 31, 29, 8 and 36*. Super Kings were always going to ge there. And when they did, they had Ferreira, appropriately, in the middle, with an unbeaten 18 in 13 balls, with Wiaan Mulder unbeaten on 19 off 15.
