Major League Cricket: The franchise cricket will hit the USA very soon. The inaugural season of Major League Cricket will start on July 13. With just a month on the clock, all the teams are looking to finalize their squad.
Texas Super Kings have made the most headlines with some amazing overseas signings in the past few days. Major League cricket will feature 6 squads. Half the teams are sister teams to that IPL and will feature a few same players.
Every team can sign 14 players with 1 player as a wild card. The Wildcard can not be an overseas player. Every team is allowed to have only 9 overseas players. All the domestic players were announced a few weeks back, with the teams working on signing overseas players.
Let’s take a look at all the squad announced so far.
Washington Freedom
Anrich Nortje, Wanindu Hasaranga, Marco Jansen, Glenn Phillips, Adam Milne, Moises Henriques, Josh Philippe, Andries Gous, Mukhtar Ahmed, Obus Pienaar, Saurabh Netravalkar, Saad Ali, Dane Piedt, Sujith Gowda, Justin Dill, Akhilesh Bodugum, Ben Dwarshuis
San Francisco Unicorns
Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Lungi Ndigi, Corey Anderson, Liam Plunkett, Tajinder Singh, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Carmi Le Roux, Brody Couch, David White, Smit Patel, Sanjay Krishnamurthi
Texas Super Kings
Devon Conway, Mitchell Santner, Daniel Sams, David Miller, Gerald Coetzee, Dwayne Bravo, Ambati Rayudu, Rusty Theron, Calvin Savage, Lahiru Milantha, Milind Kumar, Sami Aslam, Cameron Stevenson, Cody Chetty, Zia Shahzad, Saiteja Mukkamalla
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Los Angeles Knight Riders
Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Jason Roy, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Adam Zampa, Rilee Rossouw, Spencer Johnson, Ali Khan, Unmukt Chand, Jaskaran Malhotra, Nitish Kumar, Corne Dry, Ali Sheikh, Saif Badar, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Bhaskar Yadram
MI New York
Kieron Pollard, Trent Boult, Rashid Khan, Tim David, Dewald Brevis, David Wiese, Kagiso Rabada, Nicholas Pooran, Jason Behrendorff, Steven Taylor, Hammad Azam, Ehsan Adil, Nosthush Kenjige, Monank Patel, Sarbjeet Ladda, Shayan Jahangir, Kyle Phillip, Saideep Ganesh
Washington Freedom
Anrich Nortje, Wanindu Hasaranga, Marco Jansen, Glenn Phillips, Adam Milne, Moises Henriques, Josh Philippe, Andries Gous, Mukhtar Ahmed, Obus Pienaar, Saurabh Netravalkar, Saad Ali, Dane Piedt, Sujith Gowda, Justin Dill, Akhilesh Bodugum, Ben Dwarshuis
More Players To Be Followed
More players will be announced in the coming days, as few teams still do not have a full roster. San Fransico Unicorns will look to complete their squad as soon as possible so they can start their training as soon as possible.
The importance of this series is immense. It can be seen throughout the signing process as players were very happy to be signed. Liam Plunkett even gave up his English citizenship to be signed as a local player.
The league will also empower cricket in the USA, which is necessary. The USA is taking big steps to get itself noticed in the world of cricket. Their Cricket World Cup qualifiers campaign will be a statement towards that. The matches will be played in two stadiums across the USA: Grand Prairie in Texas and Church Street Park in North Carolina.
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