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elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Where there not 3 venues last year?
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Last year they started in Grand Prairie, then moved everything to Church Road for a round, and then back to Grand Prairie.

I was really hoping for some NYC matches in the new stadium but the story going around is the ICC wanted too much money to use the stands and there probably wasn't time to remove them.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
TV broadcasting going to be sames last year I assume.?
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Haven't heard anything about that but I presume so. And at least you'll be able to catch the start of the Church Road matches before bed time...
 
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.

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"Domestic players"...if they were playing in the SA, India or Pakistan leagues. Only 5 US born players are part of that "domestic" group...
 
L-Dog said:
Just after the world cup hopefully they carry some momentum and have a few games sold out
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There were plenty of sold out matches last year, mostly in Texas.

This year they have the added benefit of all of the Texas matches being in the evening. The heat there during the day is unbearable.

stefan9 said:
"Domestic players"...if they were playing in the SA, India or Pakistan leagues. Only 5 US born players are part of that "domestic" group...
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Can't say I'm disappointed not to see Rusty Theron on the list.
 
How is it each team plays seven pool matches?

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Major League Cricket gets official List A status from ICC ahead of second season​

The league is also planning to expand from the current six teams to 10 in the coming seasons

Major League Cricket (MLC), the season-old T20 tournament in the USA, has become the second Associate-run franchise competition to acquire List A status from the ICC, following on from the UAE's ILT20 earlier this year.

The status means that MLC will now be recognised as an official T20 league, with tournament playing records now counted as official format statistics. "We are really excited for the news as it's a recognition of the standard and high quality of players taking part in the tournament," tournament director Justin Geale told ESPNcricinfo. "By awarding MLC List A status for the upcoming season, it assists to acknowledge the strength and growing stature of the tournament and ultimately will help to enhance the credibility of the sport in the USA on a global scale.

"The most important part for me though is it ensures the performances of some of the world's best players alongside their peers are adequately reflected in their career statistics.

"Really thankful to the ICC for taking the time to look at it as cricket in the USA doesn't always fit into a template. We are an Associate nation and proud of that, one with a unique opportunity in front of us. It's our hope that on the back of the upcoming World Cup and a successful season we can continue to build a platform for the sport to grow and ultimately succeed in the USA."

The 2024 edition of MLC will start on July 5, a week after the T20 World Cup ends on June 29 in Bridgetown. The T20 World Cup begins, however, in Dallas, USA on June 1, in what is an important season in the game's continuing efforts to crack the US market.

The Guardian, which reported on the awarding of List A status on Monday, also revealed MLC's plans to expand from the current six teams to 10 over the next few years, jumping from 19 games in 2023 to 34 by 2025. Twenty-five games have already been scheduled for this season.

More: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...tatus-from-icc-ahead-of-second-season-1435584
 
Convincing win by MINY

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