Here’s everything you require to find out about the newly-launched tournament in the United States, the Major League Cricket (MLC), which includes the format, online streaming information, and the list of Indian players. MLC 2023 is at last scheduled to begin this month with an array of stars lined up to participate in the most recent franchise battle on the block.
The US, which will host games during the 2024 T20 World Cup, is now hosting the first-ever official T20 franchise tournament. Six teams will participate, including the Los Angeles Knight Riders, MI New York, San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings, and Washington Freedom. It will run from July 13 to July 30 with the matches to be watched in India around 6:00 A.M IST for most of the games
Format and Venues of Major League Cricket 2023
Grand Prairie Stadium in Texas as well as Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina, will serve as the event’s host locations. Before the knockout stages, each team will play the other once. Four games will make up the knockout stages: The third and fourth-placed sides in the league stage will battle in the Eliminator for a spot in the Challenger.
The top two teams in the league’s standings will play in the Challenger match for a chance to advance to the finals. The Challenger will then include the winning team of the Eliminator against the losers of the Qualifier. In the final, the prevailing team in that game will face the champ of the qualifier.
The competition’s official broadcast partner in India is Viacom18. All games will be televised on Sports 18, and JioCinema will offer live streaming for all of them.
Eight Indian players who recently declared their intention to retire from Indian cricket in order to continue their cricketing fortunes in the USA will play in the six-team event. Unmukt Chand, the captain of the India U-19 World Cup-winning squad, and his colleagues Smit Patel and Harmeet Singh are a few of the well-known names. Ambati Rayudu joined Texas Super Kings but withdrew from the competition last week for personal reasons.
Indian athletes who are currently in competition are not permitted to participate in foreign franchise leagues, particularly MLC, but those who have declared their retirement are.
