Washington Freedom will kickstart its Major League Cricket (MLC) 2023 marketing campaign towards Seattle Orcas on Saturday.
The aspect shall be skippered by Moises Henriques of Australia and can look to threaten sides within the event with its abroad tempo trio of Anrich Nortje, Adam Milne and Marco Jansen.
The batting line-up, nonetheless, doesn’t encourage a lot confidence with worldwide expertise and high quality severely missing. Glenn Phillips, Joshua Phillipe and Henriques are the one abroad batters within the line-up with worldwide expertise. Phillipe and Henriques haven’t performed worldwide cricket previously two years.
Washington will hope its home expertise comes good. So much will rely on openers Saad Ali and Mukhtar Ahmed whereas all-rounders Justin Dill and Obus Pienaar can even have an enormous position to play.
WASHINGTON FREEDOM BEST PLAYING XI
Saad Ali, Mukhtar Ahmed, Glenn Phillips, Moises Henriques (c), Sujith Gowda, Joshua Phillipe (wk), Justin Dill, Obus Pienaar, Anrich Nortje, Adam Milne, Marco Jansen.
WASHINGTON FREEDOM SQUAD
WICKETKEEPERS
Andries Gous (home participant), Josh Philippe (Australia), Glenn Phillips (New Zealand).
BATTERS
Mukhtar Ahmed (home participant), Saad Ali (home participant), Sujith Gowda (home participant).
ALL-ROUNDERS
Justin Dill (home participant), Moises Henriques (Australia), Obus Pienaar (home participant).
BOWLERS
Akhilesh Bodugum (home participant), Ben Dwarshuis (Australia), Marco Jansen (South Africa), Adam Milne (New Zealand), Saurabh Netravalkar (home participant), Anrich Nortje (South Africa), Dane Piedt (home participant), Usman Rafiq (home participant), Tanveer Sangha (Australia).
Total gamers: 18
International gamers: 8
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com