Cricket Association T20

Cricket Association T20 – Major League Cricket (MLC) is an upcoming Twty20 professional cricket league in the United States. Operated by the American Cricket terprises (ACE) and sanctioned by USA Cricket, it plans to begin play on July 13, 2023, with six teams representing major US cities under a single model. The first season will take place over three weeks at Grand Prairie Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas, and Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina, and will conclude on July 30, 2023.

In 2021, MLC’s development league, Minor League Cricket (MiLC), completed its first season, contested by 27 franchise-based teams.

There have been various attempts to organize a Twty20 (T20) cricket league in the United States, such as the short-lived Pro Cricket (which played a single season in 2004),

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And the American Premier League, a league offered in partnership between the United States Cricket Association (USACA) and New Zealand Cricket, modeled on domestic T20 competitions.

Replaces USACA, which had been kicked out of the International Cricket Council in September 2017 due to management issues.

The new body has set itself the goal of cricket achieving wider, mainstream popularity in the country, where it is generally considered an international niche sport.

In November 2018, USA Cricket announced that it was seeking partners to establish a national T20 league in the country by 2021, with the aim of “measuring existing fans and developing new ones”, and boosting ” sustainable development of cricket infrastructure in the United States”. States”.

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In May 2019, USA Cricket accepted an offer from American Cricket terprises (ACE) for an investment of US$1 billion, covering league and other investments suitable for US national teams. Its partners include Satyan Gajwani and Vineet Jain of The Times Group, and Willow TV founders Sameer Mehta and Vijay Srinivasan.

As part of the agreement, ACE also manages commercial activities for T20I and ODI matches hosted by the United States.

At an annual general meeting on February 21, 2020, it was stated that USA Cricket plans to launch Major League Cricket in 2021, and a 22-team development league known as Minor League Cricket that summer in prelude.

Minor League Cricket was officially announced the following week, with plans to run a nine-week, 170-match season from 4 July;

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In October 2020, USA Cricket confirmed plans to launch Major League Cricket in 2022 as part of their “fundamental plan” for 2020–23.

On December 1, 2020, it was announced that IPL’s Kolkata Knight Riders (co-owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan) would invest in ACE.

In February 2021, the MLC announced plans for the Minor League Cricket Youth and Major League Cricket Youth leagues, which along with an MLC Jr. Championship and Player Development Program would act as a development system for young players to progress to Major League Cricket and the national team.

In May 2021 the launch of Major League Cricket was postponed to 2023 due to covid-19 and to allow more time to develop the facilities.

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In February 2023, it was announced that the player draft for the league’s inaugural season would take place on March 19, 2023.

MiLC Youth’s inaugural season was announced to be contested between 11 teams at Prairie View Cricket Complex in Houston beginning July 25, 2022.

The first season finale was held on July 29 between the Dallas Mustangs and the New Jersey Stallions,

In May 2022, Major League Cricket announced that it had acquired $120 million in funding as part of its Series A and A1 fundraising.

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Among the investors who bet on MLC were Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Ross Perot Jr., Anand Rajaraman, Shantanu Naray and many more.

MLC plans to use these funds to primarily build world-class stadiums and facilities in hopes of accelerating the development of cricket across the United States.

In November 2022, it was announced that the MLC’s first season would be played July 13–30, 2023 at Grand Prairie Stadium. The tournament will be played in a single round-robin format with 15 league matches played between six franchises before a four-match knockout stage. MLC also hopes to play games at a stadium to be built in Los Angeles and Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina.

The first player draft took place on March 19, 2023 at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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The repechage took place over 9 rounds via a serpentine system, where the order is reversed each round.

Of the 9 rounds, 8 were overall draft picks, with the final round exclusively for U-23 players.

Each of the six teams had a purse of over $1 million, including $800,000 for overseas players and $300,000 for US-based players.

The draft had a fixed salary cap with a maximum of $75,000 (first round) and a minimum of $2,500 (ninth round).

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Each franchise must have a minimum of five players, with a maximum of eight players. Of these eight players, a maximum of nine can be foreign players.

Following the draft, it was reported that the USAC had yet to sanction major or minor league cricket for the 2023 season, with the ICC stating that its members should not issue no-objection certificates ( NOC) to release players to participate for the time being. Acting board chairman Atul Rai cites unspecified concerns and outstanding questions about how ACE is administering the competitions, including a desire to seek a more “favorable” short-term deal. MLC manager Justin Geale said the sanction demands relate to USA Cricket and that “good personnel changes at USA Cricket may have contributed to the delays.

In April 2023, the league was officially sanctioned by the ICC, removing a significant impediment to the league’s launch in July.

The MLC is expected to start with six teams; the league will use a single structure where all teams are owned by ACE, with investor operators (who have invested in the company) assigned to each team.

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It hopes to expand to eight teams in the future, like other T20 leagues around the world.

USA Cricket CEO Iain Higgins identified Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York and San Francisco as the markets where the sport was most popular.

The league’s initial six teams will be in Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

On November 18, 2020, it was announced that ACE would lease AirHogs Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas – home of the former independent baseball team Texas AirHogs – and convert it into a cricket-specific facility that will host a team based in Dallas in the Major. Cricket League.

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In March 2022, ACE discussed plans to invest $110 million in eight newly constructed or redeveloped venues for the league and possibly stage 2024 ICC M T20 World Cup matches (which states States co-host with the West Indies), including the aforementioned Grand Prairie Stadium, Church Street Park in Morrisville, Moosa Stadium in Pearland, Prairie View Cricket Complex in Prairie View and new locations in Orange County (supported by the Knight Riders), Santa Clara County Fairgrounds and Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. The Traveling Views have a budget of around $3 million each, while the three new West Coast Views have a budget of $30 million each; ACE said West Coast sights will be ready by 2024 and will have an estimated capacity of 10,000 to 20,000.

In November 2022, it was reported that work on the other proposed sites had yet to begin.

In February 2023, it was reported that most games in 2023 would be played in Grand Prairie, with Church Street Park to be used as a secondary venue.

Due to the summer heat in Texas, it was reported by ESPNcricinfo that most games would be scheduled as night games, rather than scheduled during the day to attract crowds in markets such as India.

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With the announcement of the 2023 schedule, it was confirmed that part of the group stage will be played at Church Street Park; due to the curfew for the use of floodlights, these matches will begin in the early evening.

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The South Africa T20 League, formed by Cricket South Africa (CSA), is a six-team tournament scheduled to be played in 2023.

A host of international and local T20 stars will be in action as South Africa attempts to launch its own global T20 league. The president and former captain of Cricket South Africa, Graeme Smith, has been appointed league commissioner.

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All six South African Premier League T20 teams are owned by Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise owners.

While the CSA T20 League is set to take on another big name T20 league in the United Arab Emirates in January-February 2023, the CSA has already been endorsed by several international T20 stars.

According to an August 11 statement from Cricket South Africa,

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