From PBKS to Washington Freedom: Ricky Ponting Breaks His Own T20 Record

Over the years, T20 cricket has evolved a lot and is becoming just about scoring runs at a very high strike rate. The Major League Cricket 2026 is underway, and the eliminator between MI New York and Washington Freedom has scripted a big T20 milestone: the highest successful T20 chase. The match saw some of the best T20 batsmen in the world taking part in the game and contributing to a huge milestone of the highest T20 chase by a team. Let's have a look at the Washington Freedom highest T20 chase, which is yet another highest T20 chase by a T20 franchise under the coaching of Australian legend Ricky Ponting.

From PBKS to Washington Freedom: Ponting's Another Record

Ricky Ponting's Washington Freedom has scripted history with the highest successful T20 chase on July 16, 2026, against MI New York in the eliminator game of the MLC 2026. This record was earlier held by Punjab Kings, whose head coach is also Ricky Ponting, and his coaching has now shown the mindset of the players to go all out against huge totals and play a natural game, even in a high-stakes match like Washington Freedom did in a crucial match of their MLC 2026 campaign.

WAF has chased the target of 267 runs by scoring 270 runs in just 18.4 overs, where before this match, Punjab Kings were the record holder for chasing the total of 265 runs. The MINY vs WAF match saw a total of 51 sixes in an unbelievable chase by the WAF, which helped them to reach the Challenger match.

MINY vs WAF Match Highlights

The MINY vs WAF match started with the Washington Freedom winning the toss and electing to bowl first. The defending champions, MI New York, put a huge total of 266 runs on the board. West Indies star batters Nicholas Pooran and Kieron Pollard played destructive innings of 106 runs and 64 runs, respectively.

While Washington Freedom came to bat and chased down the record-breaking total with the help of skipper Steve Smith and Andries Gous, both scoring match-winning centuries. Here is the MINY vs WAF scorecard: