Los Angeles vs Seattle, 20th Match at Dallas, MLC, Jun 28 2025 - Match Result

11:13pm That will be a wrap from us for tonight. We will be back with more MLC action tomorrow, and would love your company for that as well. Until then, from everyone here at ESPNcricinfo, it is goodbye!

Shimron Hetmyer, Player of the Match: (On how he is feeling) Tired. Very, very tired. Thankful we could get across the line. Hopefully we can continue doing this. Once we have a decent enough start, it makes it easier for the guys lower down, and I can just go out and bat with a clear mind. Really happy with where my game is at. Leg? Little bit of a worry. Will get it looked at (in a couple of days' time).

Sikandar Raza, Seattle Orcas captain: The win yesterday did a lot of good for us. We ended up chasing 200 again on a slightly slowish and tricky track (tonight). Hopefully we can take it one game at a time and continue the momentum. The beauty of cricket is you will never have a perfect game. As a leader, you have to understand there will be mistakes. I try to keep emotions in check and think about what I am going to do next and ask the bowlers to do next. (On using just five bowlers) I thought the time of when I could have bowled, when Dre first came in…in my head, we could bowl Waqar and be even more aggressive. He (Russell) batted well (as well). (On Jones batting at three) It was down to Kyle getting a blow to the hand (and needed the physio to take a look at him). Jones took his chance (at number three). That batting order shift was mainly because Kyle got injured during fielding.

Jason Holder, Los Angeles Knight Riders captain: Felt we had a pretty decent batting effort. In hindsight, maybe 10-15 short but that is the game of cricket. It was a close game, could not get over the line. At night, the ball comes on a little bit better and batting gets easier. You have to find ways to execute and get over the line. We have come close but have not gotten over the line. We did not execute as well as we would have liked (towards the back end). One or two overs at the start probably gave away momentum. (How they intend to turn things around) We need to win - as simple as that. we need to find a way. We have not put together a complete game and the onus is on us (to produce it).

10:59pm A slightly nervy ending to a run-chase that was defined by two brisk and belligerent fifties. Jones was the one to get the party underway, riding his luck a bit at times, but smashing the ball to all parts otherwise. He perished in 12th over, though, and there was a brief period where the Knight Riders threatened to storm back. Thankfully for the Orcas, they had Hetmyer around and he produced an innings of exceptional quality, glittered with several breath-taking strokes.

The Knight Riders, as good as Hetmyer's hitting was, will feel they probably lacked on the execution front, especially towards the end. There were a few full tosses and a few loose balls, and once they started travelling, it became a game LAKR kept chasing continuously, eventually falling short with a ball left.

3 off 2. You can cut the tension with a knife here

3 off 3. Hetmyer, you'd assume, still in charge of the situation. But if he were to be dismissed now...

4 off 4 now

Mayers on strike. Can LAKR squeeze in a couple of dot balls here?

Just five more needed, and the Orcas have six balls to get there. SvS, going at more than 15 runs per over tonight, will bowl

Orcas one hit away from their second successive win

Two dots in a row, and Mayers, in a run-chase that demanded more than ten runs per over when he walked in, is 1 off 6

Around the wicket to Mayers

Ali Khan to bowl out as well. 26 off 18. Over the wicket to Hetmyer

LAKR running out of ideas (and time). 27 off 19