Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Seattle Orcas Major League Cricket Predictions - Orcas facing back-to-back defeats

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The Knight Riders won both of their opening matches to move into second spot.
The Orcas are in fourth place having lost three of their five matches.
The Knight Riders have dominated both of their wins and look too strong for an Orcas side that has been very inconsistent.

Matthew Breetzke has found form in the MLC (Getty Images).

Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Seattle Orcas Predictions

The Knight Riders lost their third match to MI New York but they remain in second place with two games in hand. They beat the Orcas in their earlier group match a week ago by 81 runs.

Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Seattle Orcas Predictions
Head-to-Head
Los Angeles Knight Riders Form
Seattle Orcas Form
Team news

Los Angeles Knight Riders’ Andre Fletcher has scored 34, 40 & 44 in his last 3 knocks.
Los Angeles Knight Riders’ Colin Munro has innings of 64*, 30 & 20 this season.
Los Angeles Knight Riders’ Andre Russell has taken 3/8 & 4/35 in his last two matches.
Seattle Orcas’ Matthew Breetzke has scored 66, 32 & 51 in his last 4 knocks.
Seattle Orcas’ Tim Seifert has innings of 104, 78, 37 & 32 this season.
Seattle Orcas’ Ottneil Baartman has taken 4/33, 3/36 & 3 other wickets in 5 matches.

Head-to-Head

Los Angeles Knight Riders have won three and lost two of their last five Major League Cricket clashes against the Seattle Orcas.

Los Angeles Knight Riders Form

The Knight Riders’ strong start to the season hit a bump when they lost their third match to MI New York, after restricting them to 144/6 off their 20 overs. In reply the Knight Riders collapsed to 103 all out off 17.5 overs.

Andre Russell was on fire with the ball again to peg back MI New York in the closing overs, picking up 4/35 as MI New York battled to score in the closing stages of their innings.

Colin Munro (20 off 18) and Andre Fletcher (44 off 40) got the innings off to a strong start by adding 53 for the first wicket, but with only Matthew Tromp (12) scoring above seven the Knight Riders collapsed to 103 all out off 17.5 overs for a disappointing defeat they should have wrapped up with ease.

Seattle Orcas Form

The Orcas have yet to claim back-to-back wins in what has been something of an inconsistent start to their season. After beating the Washington Freedom by 88 runs they lost to the San Francisco Unicorns by just two wickets in a thrilling last-over finish.

The Orcas’ top three got them off to a great start, with Tim Seifert (32 off 14), Shayan Jahangir (62 off 25) and Matthew Breetzke (51 off 29) all taking the Unicorns bowlers on to post a score of 191 off 19.2 overs.

The Orcas had the Unicorns in trouble at 26/3 but they recovered to scrape home by two wickets with two balls in hand. Marcus Stoinis, Cameron Gannon and Dasun Shanaka each picked up two wickets.

Team news

The Knight Riders will look to put their disappointing batting performance against MI New York behind them and get back to posting defendable scores for their strong bowling attack. The Orcas will be hoping their top six can start performing with greater consistency as the season heads towards the playoff stages.

Los Angeles Knight Riders (possible XI): Colin Munro, Andre Fletcher, Unmukt Chand, Rovman Powell, Jason Holder (c), Andre Russell, Saif Badar, Sunil Narine, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Karthik Gattepalli, Carmi le Roux.

Seattle Orcas (possible XI): Tim Seifert, Shayan Jahangir, Matthew Breetzke, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis (c), Dasun Shanaka, Ali Sheikh, Harmeet Singh, Cameron Gannon, Jasdeep Singh, Ottniel Baartman.

Verdict

Los Angeles Knight Riders v Seattle Orcas

Los Angeles Knight Riders are tipped to win, with Andre Fletcher, Andre Russell, Matthew Breetzke and Ottneil Baartman backed to star with bat and ball.

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