Texas Super Kings vs MI New York Major League Cricket Predictions - Super Kings to hand MI NY second defeat

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The Super Kings top order failed to fire in their defeat to the Unicorns.
MI New York’s batters self-imploded while chasing the Freedom’s huge target.
Both sides have top orders that failed to fire in their last match.

Faf du Plessis is one of the greats of T20 cricket (Getty Images).

Texas Super Kings vs MI New York Predictions

The Super Kings proved their strength as a team in their opening win over the Orcas so I’m backing them to bounce back from their defeat to the Unicorns in their last match.

Texas Super Kings vs MI New York Predictions
Head-to-Head
Texas Super Kings Form
MI New York Form
Team news

Texas Super Kings’ Faf du Plessis scored 113* against the Orcas.
Texas Super Kings’ Rilee Rossouw has scored 27, 49 & 36 in his last 3 knocks.
Texas Super Kings’ Nandre Burger has figures of 2/43, 2/26 & 1/13 in 5 matches.
Texas Super Kings have beaten MI New York in 4 of their last 5 clashes.
MI New York’s Kieron Pollard scored 100* off 56 balls vs Washington Freedom.
MI New York’s Quinton de Kock has scored 47 & 112* in his last 7 innings.
MI New York’s Corbin Bosch has picked up 10 wickets in his last 5 matches.

Head-to-Head

Texas Super Kings have won four and lost one of their last five Major League Cricket matches against MI New York.

Texas Super Kings Form

The Super Kings started with a six-wicket win over the Orcas only to come down to earth with a bump in a seven-wicket defeat to the Unicorns.

Faf du Plessis has scored 53 and 113* in his last three completed innings. Rilee Rossouw top-scored with 36 off 29 balls in the defeat to the Unicorns. Milind Kumar scored 111* against Canada 10 days ago.

Nandre Burger was the Super Kings’ best bowler in their defeat against the Unicorns, taking 1/13 (econ 6.50) and has taken six wickets in his last five matches.

MI New York Form

MI New York suffered a heavy blow in their opening match of the season, going down to the Washington Freedom by 30 runs.

The Freedom punished the MI New York attack, with everyone except Rushil Ugarkar (1/38, econ 9.50) going for over 10 runs to the over. Corbin Bosch has figures of 4/26 and 3/30 in his last five matches.

Kieron Pollard rescued his side with an undefeated 100 in chasing Washington Freedom’s score of 245/5 after being reduced to 64/5. Romario Shepherd (26 off 20) and Corbin Bosch (35* off 14) offered Pollard support but it was not enough after none of their top four had reached 15.

Team news

Both sides struggled with the bat in their last match as well as the ball. The Super Kings will draw on their performance in their opening match when they beat the Orcas by six wickets.

Texas Super Kings (possible XI): Faf du Plessis (c), Saiteja Mukkamalla, Rilee Rossouw, Milind Kumar, Shubham Ranjane, Wiaan Mulder, Donovan Ferreira, Mohammad Mohsin, Hardus Viljoen, Amshi de Silva, Nandre Burger.

MI New York (possible XI): Monank Patel, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran (c), Tajinder Singh, Kieron Pollard, Corey Anderson, Romario Shepherd, Corbin Bosch, Trent Boult, Rushil Ugarkar, Nosthush Kenjige.