SEO vs TSK Preview | Seattle Orcas eye playoffs with win against Texas Super Kings

ByUmesh Sharma,SportsCafe Editor

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Two of the top four teams, Seattle Orcas and Texas Super Kings, will face each other in the upcoming game of the ongoing Major League Cricket 2025 (MLC 2025). It will be a very crucial and all-important game for the Seattle Orcas to ensure their spot in the tournament’s playoff stage with a win.

After facing a big 8-wicket defeat against Washington Freedom in the last game, Seattle Orcas will take on the Texas Super Kings in the 28th game of the tournament’s current edition. The game will be played at the Central Broward Regional Park Turf Stadium in Lauderhill on July 5, 2025. Orcas have registered three wins and two defeats in their last five games in the tournament.

Speaking of the Texas Super Kings, they faced a very narrow-margin defeat by 1 run against the San Fransico Unicorns. However, they are comfortably placed in the third spot on the table, having already qualified for the playoffs. A win in this game will propel the Super Kings to the top spot in the tournament standings.

Form Guide

SEO: L W W W L

TSK: L W W W L

SEO vs TSK Head-to-Head in T20S

Seattle Orcas and Texas Super Kings have faced each other in four games, with both teams winning two games each. Both teams faced each other for the last time in the seventh game of the ongoing MLC 2025, in which TSK won by a massive margin of 93 runs.

SEO 32-68 TSK

Pitch and Weather

The surface at the Central Broward Regional Park Turf Stadium will mostly favour the batters, especially in the second half of the game. The average score here has only been around 142, so the toss-winning skipper might opt to bat first to trouble the opponent with a tricky run-chase.

The weather conditions will be quite overcast at the start of the game, with the minimum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature of 31 degrees Celsius. So, the overcast conditions are expected to help the bowlers in the first half of the game.

Team News

Seattle Orcas might make some changes in their opening pair owing to the golden duck of Shayan Jahangir in the last game against Washington Freedom. They are also expected to go ahead with some changes in their core bowling attack.

After the comeback of skipper Faf du Plessis in the playing XI for the last game against San Fransico Unicorns, the Texas Super Kings might field an unchanged playing XI in this game against Seattle Orcas. However, they could make some changes in their batting order, including the promotion of star all-rounder Marcus Stoinis up in the batting order.

SEO Probable XI: Shayan Jahangir (WK), Steven Taylor , Aaron Jones, Sikandar Raza (C), Heinrich Klaasen, Kyle Mayers, Shimron Hetmyer, Harmeet Singh, Gerald Coetzee, Jasdeep Singh, and Waqar Salamkheil.

TSK Probable XI: Smit Patel (WK), Faf du Plessis (C), Saiteja Mukkamalla, Marus Stoinis, Shubham Ranjane, Donovan Ferreira, Calvin Savage, Mohammad Mohsin, Akeal Hossein, Noor Ahmad, and Nandre Burger.