San Francisco Unicorns vs Texas Super Kings Predictions - San Francisco Unicorns to make it three wins on the trot

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San Francisco Unicorns hold a 3-2 head-to-head edge over Texas Super Kings.
Unicorns' Finn Allen & Matt Short are in red-hot batting form.
Unicorns tipped to win; Super Kings seek to resolve batting inconsistency.

San Francisco Unicorns to make it three wins on the trot (Getty Images)

San Francisco Unicorns vs Texas Super Kings Predictions

Texas Super Kings impressed by chasing down 153 with 7 wickets to spare against Texas Super Kings in their previous match.

San Francisco Unicorns vs Texas Super Kings Predictions
Head-to-Head
San Francisco Unicorns Form
Texas Super Kings Form
Team news

San Francisco Unicorns have won 3 of the 5 matches against Texas Super Kings.
San Francisco Unicorns' Matt Short has scored 66, 18, 14, 24 and 31 in his last 5 knocks.
San Francisco Unicorns' Finn Allen has scored 100, 100, 18, 93, 8, and 20 in 6 innings.
San Francisco Unicorns’ Lhuan-dre Pretorius scored 69* off 55 balls in the previous match against Texas Super Kings.
Texas Super Kings’ Faf du Plessis has scored 12,154 runs in T20s (ave 33.11).
Texas Super Kings’ Keshav Maharaj has taken 7 wickets in 5 matches, including figures of 2/25 & 2/22.

Head-to-Head

San Francisco Unicorns hold a 3-2 head-to-head advantage over the Texas Super Kings.

San Francisco Unicorns Form

The Unicorns chased down a 153-run target with 13 balls to spare in the most recent meeting against Texas Super Kings. Lhuan-dre Pretorius anchored the chase with an outstanding, unbeaten 69 runs, backed up by skipper Matthew Short (31).

Matt Short has scored 66, 18, 14, 24 and 31 in his last 5 knocks and Finn Allen has been in excellent touch recently, scoring 100, 100, 18, 93, 8, and 20 in 6 innings.

Hassan Khan has taken 3/5, 2/16, 3/38, 0/54, 1/28, 4/37 in his last six matches.

Texas Super Kings Form

Texas Super Kings lost to MI New York by 8 wickets. Texas Super Kings posted 158 before MI New York comfortably chased it down, anchored by an unbeaten 68 from Nicholas Pooran.

Faf du Plessis is in good form with the bat, scoring 47, 44, 39, 21, 53 and 113* in his last six completed innings.

Keshav Maharaj has taken at least one wicket in each of his last five matches, including two two-wicket hauls.

Texas Super Kings have lost two of their first three matches of the 2026 season.

Team news

The Unicorns appear to have the stronger batting form coming into this fixture, particularly through Allen and Short at the top of the order, while Texas have shown they can chase big totals, but their batting has lacked consistency across the opening rounds.

San Francisco Unicorns (probable XI): Matt Short (c), Finn Allen, Cooper Connolly, Aaron Hardie, Saideep Ganesh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Haris Rauf, Xavier Bartlett, Hassan Khan, Ghulam Mudassar, Juanoy Drysdale.

Texas Super Kings (probable XI): Faf du Plessis (c), Saiteja Mukkamalla, Rilee Rossouw, Milind Kumar, Wiaan Mulder (wk), Donovan Ferreira, Nandre Burger, Akeal Hosein, Keshav Maharaj, Mohammad Mohsin, Adam Milne.

Verdict

San Francisco Unicorns v Texas Super Kings

San Francisco Unicorns are tipped to win at odds of 1.57, with Matt Short, Finn Allen, Faf du Plessis and Lhuan-dre Pretorius backed to star with bat and ball.

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