Watch: Moises Henriques rattles Heinrich Klaasen’s stumps with a magical delivery in MLC 2023

On 15 July 2023, Washington Freedom took on Seattle Orcas in the third game of the ongoing Major League Cricket (MLC) in Grand Prairie. Both teams were looking for a winning start to their campaign. However, it was Seattle Orcas who won the game by five wickets. Imad Wasim won the Player of the Match award for his all-round contribution.

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But, from the match, a video went viral where Moises Henriques was seen with a magical delivery to rattle the stumps of Heinrich Klaasen. The incident took place on the second delivery of the eight over of Orcas’ innings. The ball moved into the stumps a bit after pitching and it went through the defence of Klaasen. The Protea batter looked absolutely clueless. 

Here is the shared video:

WHAT. A. BALL! 🤯

Moises Henriques delivers🚚 an absolute BEAUTY of a ball to Heinrich Klassen!

4⃣3⃣/3⃣ (7.2) pic.twitter.com/QI28kMethW

— Major League Cricket (@MLCricket) July 15, 2023

“It was a good game of cricket.” - Moises Henriques

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Speaking of the match, Seattle Orcas skipper, Wayne Parnell won the toss and opted to bowl first. While batting first, Washington Freedom scored 144 runs for seven wickets. Akeal Hossein was the highest scorer for them with 33* runs off 22 balls, including two fours and one six. For Orcas’ Parnell and Harmeet Singh took two wickets each. While Imad Wasim, Andrew Tye, and Cameron Gannon took one wicket each.

In reply, Orcas chased down the target in 19.4 overs with five wickets in hand. Nauman Anwar scored 48 runs off 37 balls, including three fours and three sixes. But, it was Imad Wasim who smashed 43* runs off 38 balls, including three fours and one six and finished the game. After this win, they are now in the third spot with a net run rate of +0.325.

During the post-match presentation, Washington Freedom skipper, Henriques said: “It was a good game of cricket. It was the third game on that wicket and it was just starting to show a bit of up-and-down (characteristics). (Did the conditions change under lights) When I was batting, there were a few that were starting to keep low. It definitely got easier as the ball got older. When the ball was new and hard, there was more variable bounce. We fought our way to mid-140s. If we had held our chances, we had our moments to win the game.”