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DOMESTIC PLAYER RETENTIONS FOR MAJOR LEAGUE CRICKET 2024 ANNOUNCED​


All six Major League Cricket (MLC) teams have announced returning domestic players for the 2024 season following the conclusion of the retention window on Thursday, Feb. 29. Additional domestic players will be selected by each team in the domestic player draft, to be held virtually in mid-March with details to be released soon.

The retained domestic players for each team are as follows:

Los Angeles Knight Riders
Saif Badar
Unmukt Chand
Ali Khan
Nitish Kumar
Shadley Van Schalkwyk

MI New York
Ehsan Adil
Nosthush Kenjige
Shayan Jahangir
Monank Patel
Steven Taylor

San Francisco Unicorns
Corey Anderson
Brody Couch
Sanjay Krishnamurthi
Carmi Le Roux
Liam Plunkett

Seattle Orcas
Nauman Anwar
Cameron Gannon
Shehan Jayasuriya
Shubham Ranjane
Harmeet Singh

Texas Super Kings
Milind Kumar
Mohammad Mohsin
Saiteja Mukkamalla
Calvin Savage
Zia Shahzad
Cameron Stevenson
Zia Ul-Haq

Washington Freedom
Mukhtar Ahmed
Akhilesh Bodugum
Justin Dill
Andries Gous
Saurabh Netravalkar
Obus Pienaar

All six teams have already announced their retained international players, with further overseas signings to be announced shortly. Returning superstar players set to compete in MLC 2024 include Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan (MI New York), South Africans Faf du Plessis (Texas Super Kings), Marco Jansen (Washington Freedom) and Quinton de Kock (Seattle Orcas), Pakistan’s Haris Rauf (San Francisco Unicorns) and Sunil Narine (LA Knight Riders) of the West Indies.

MLC’s debut season in 2023 transformed the landscape of American cricket, bringing world class domestic T20 action to the United States for the first time with most of the matches played in front of sold-out crowds in Texas and North Carolina. Dozens of the world’s best cricketers competed alongside the nation’s top domestic talent across 19 matches. MI New York claimed the inaugural championship crown, defeating the Seattle Orcas in the championship final on July 30 at Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium.

The 2024 MLC season will include matches returning to Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium in Grand Prairie, TX and at additional venues to be named later. More details on the 2024 season will be announced soon.

MLC

www.majorleaguecricket.com
 

INTERNATIONAL T20 SUPERSTARS RETURNING FOR MLC SEASON TWO​


The sophomore season of Major League Cricket (MLC) will again feature many of the world’s best T20 cricketers, with all six teams retaining multiple superstars following the conclusion of the international player retention window.

The finalization of international player retentions kicks off the roster building process ahead of the 2024 season, scheduled to launch on July 4. Teams will now be able to sign up to a maximum of nine international players to their respective rosters and have until the end of February to settle on the retention of their domestic players from MLC season one. The domestic player draft will then follow in March as teams build out their rosters for the coming season.

MI New York brings back seven of the international players to feature in their 2023 title-winning run. That group includes Nicholas Pooran, the tournament MVP from MLC season one, who catapulted his team to victory with an unbeaten 137 in the Championship Final at Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium. Pooran is joined by fellow West Indian international Kieron Pollard, with additional firepower to come from big hitter Tim David of Australia and South Africa’s rising star Dewald Brevis.

MI NY’s bowling attack will again be led by Kiwi quick Trent Boult, who led MLC with 22 wickets during the inaugural season. Spin superstar Rashid Khan further bolsters a bowling unit that features the return of South African pace bowler Kagiso Rabada.

2023 finalists the Seattle Orcas retain two of the top three batters in the inaugural MLC season, with South Africans Quinton de Kock (264 runs) and Heinrich Klaasen (235 runs) returning for MLC season two. Klaasen struck the first-ever century in MLC, smashing an unbeaten 110 from only 44 balls against MI New York at Church Street Park.

The Orcas also bring back their captain from 2023, South African Wayne Parnell. The left-arm seamer will be part of a Seattle bowling unit that will again feature Pakistan’s Imad Wasim, the left-handed all-rounder who took 10 wickets with a miserly economy rate of 6.33 in the 2023 MLC season.

The Texas Super Kings retain three players for 2024, led by superstar captain Faf du Plessis. TSK’s top run scorer in 2023, New Zealand’s Devon Conway, returns along with his fellow Kiwi international, all-rounder Mitchell Santner, who is captaining his nation in their T20 series with Australia this month.

Pakistan’s Haris Rauf, who claimed seven wickets for the San Francisco Unicorns in 2023, rejoins the Bay Area team for the second edition of the tournament. Rauf will suit up alongside Finn Allen, with the Kiwi batter riding high after blasting a world record-tying sixteen sixes in a T20 international against Rauf’s Pakistan last month.

New Washington Freedom Head Coach Ricky Ponting is ringing in the changes following his recent appointment, with a pair of left-arm bowlers being the only two retained international players from 2023: left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein of the West Indies along with towering Proteas fast bowler Marco Jansen, who both claimed seven wickets in the inaugural MLC season.

Five players return to the Los Angeles Knight Riders, including 2023 captain Sunil Narine of the West Indies. The off-spinner will be joined in the bowling attack by a pair of Australian internationals: Adam Zampa, whose leg-spin bowling claimed a team-leading nine wickets in five matches in 2023 and left-arm fast bowler Spencer Johnson. LAKR’s batting will again feature the explosive big-hitting of West Indian Andre Russell and England’s Jason Roy.

Further details on the 2024 MLC season, including schedules and ticket information, will be released soon.

 
bwana said:

DOMESTIC PLAYER RETENTIONS FOR MAJOR LEAGUE CRICKET 2024 ANNOUNCED​


All six Major League Cricket (MLC) teams have announced returning domestic players for the 2024 season following the conclusion of the retention window on Thursday, Feb. 29. Additional domestic players will be selected by each team in the domestic player draft, to be held virtually in mid-March with details to be released soon.

The retained domestic players for each team are as follows:

Los Angeles Knight Riders
Saif Badar
Unmukt Chand
Ali Khan
Nitish Kumar
Shadley Van Schalkwyk

MI New York
Ehsan Adil
Nosthush Kenjige
Shayan Jahangir
Monank Patel
Steven Taylor

San Francisco Unicorns
Corey Anderson
Brody Couch
Sanjay Krishnamurthi
Carmi Le Roux
Liam Plunkett

Seattle Orcas
Nauman Anwar
Cameron Gannon
Shehan Jayasuriya
Shubham Ranjane
Harmeet Singh

Texas Super Kings
Milind Kumar
Mohammad Mohsin
Saiteja Mukkamalla
Calvin Savage
Zia Shahzad
Cameron Stevenson
Zia Ul-Haq

Washington Freedom
Mukhtar Ahmed
Akhilesh Bodugum
Justin Dill
Andries Gous
Saurabh Netravalkar
Obus Pienaar

All six teams have already announced their retained international players, with further overseas signings to be announced shortly. Returning superstar players set to compete in MLC 2024 include Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan (MI New York), South Africans Faf du Plessis (Texas Super Kings), Marco Jansen (Washington Freedom) and Quinton de Kock (Seattle Orcas), Pakistan’s Haris Rauf (San Francisco Unicorns) and Sunil Narine (LA Knight Riders) of the West Indies.

MLC’s debut season in 2023 transformed the landscape of American cricket, bringing world class domestic T20 action to the United States for the first time with most of the matches played in front of sold-out crowds in Texas and North Carolina. Dozens of the world’s best cricketers competed alongside the nation’s top domestic talent across 19 matches. MI New York claimed the inaugural championship crown, defeating the Seattle Orcas in the championship final on July 30 at Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium.

The 2024 MLC season will include matches returning to Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium in Grand Prairie, TX and at additional venues to be named later. More details on the 2024 season will be announced soon.

MLC

www.majorleaguecricket.com
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More late nights/early mornings :(
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
@bwana - post here about the stadiums, being built - should be finished in time, as they are not being built by tenderpreneurs.
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I've only been focusing on the new one being built in NY - Nassau County International Cricket Stadium. They'll get it done in time for SA to play the opening match in June. It will probably stink of paint though like Grand Prairie stadium did last year

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765018299304435996
 
bwana said:
I've only been focusing on the new one being built in NY - Nassau County International Cricket Stadium. They'll get it done in time for SA to play the opening match in June. It will probably stink of paint though like Grand Prairie stadium did last year

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765018299304435996
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That is the one I had in mind, yes.

Think everyone should be familiar with Grand Prairie and there is a third I cannot recall at the moment.

I think there are 7 (?) ICC approved stadiums in the USA.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Think everyone should be familiar with Grand Prairie and there is a third I cannot recall at the moment.

I think there are 7 (?) ICC approved stadiums in the USA.
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I'm not sure what stadiums are being used for this year's MLC. Last year we had a week in Church Street Park in North Carolina but I'm not sure if we're going back there this year.

For the T20 world cup I believe they're also using one in Florida - Central Broward Park - so it will be Dallas, Miami and New York
 
bwana said:
I'm not sure what stadiums are being used for this year's MLC. Last year we had a week in Church Street Park in North Carolina but I'm not sure if we're going back there this year.

For the T20 world cup I believe they're also using one in Florida - Central Broward Park - so it will be Dallas, Miami and New York
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Central Broward Park is the third one that I missed - you any idea of what that stadium is like?

Might not be used for MLC this year, but might in coming years as MLC takes off, and I do have a sense that it is catching on nicely.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Central Broward Park is the third one that I missed - you any idea of what that stadium is like?
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No - haven't been to that one. From what I've heard that one and GP are both undergoing massive upgrades in terms of temporary capacity for the WC.
 
bwana said:
No - haven't been to that one. From what I've heard that one and GP are both undergoing massive upgrades in terms of temporary capacity for the WC.
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Okay, you better put your rocket boots on, and let us know :)

Hope they do it properly, don't need stands collapsing.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Okay, you better put your rocket boots on, and let us know :)

Hope they do it properly, don't need stands collapsing.
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So far I've only got plans for the three SA matches in NY but who knows... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Schedule is up. Unfortunately no new venues.

MLC

www.majorleaguecricket.com
 
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