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Major League Cricket: MLC 2023 - Meet the teams

The inaugural season of the Major League Cricket (MLC) will begin on July 13 at the Grand Prairie Stadium, near Dallas, Texas. The opening match of the league will be played between Texas Super Kings and LA Knight Riders in a night game.

A total of 19 matches will be played in the season, including four play-off matches, at two designated stadiums - Grand Prairie Stadium and Church Street Park, with the final scheduled for July 30 in Texas.

The MLC 2023 will feature six teams, namely - Los Angeles Knight Riders, MI New York, San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings and Washington Freedom.

The MLC will bring the best T20 players from around the world to the USA and they will be seen playing alongside the strongest domestic talent of the country.

Following are the teams and their current squad for the MLC 2023:

Texas Super Kings

Owners: Chennai Super Kings, Anurag Jain, Ross Perot Jr

Squad: Faf du Plessis, Milind Kumar, Sami Aslam, Cody Chetty, Saiteja Mukkamalla, Ambati Rayudu, David Miller, Devon Conway, Calvin Savage, Zia Shahzad, Dwayne Bravo, Daniel Sams, Mitchell Santner, Lahiru Milantha, Rusty Theron, Cameron Stevenson, Gerald Coetzee

LA Knight Riders

Owners: Knight Riders Group

Squad: Jaskaran Malhotra, Jason Roy, Martin Guptill, Nitish Kumar, Rilee Rossouw, Saif Badar, Unmukt Chand, Ali Sheikh, Andre Russell, Bhaskar Yadram, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Sunil Narine, Adam Zampa, Ali Khan, Corne Dry, Lockie Ferguson

MI New York

Owners: Indiawin Sports

Squad: Steven Taylor, Shayan Jahangir, Tim David, Hammad Azam, David Wiese, Dewald Brevis, Kieron Pollard, Monank Patel, Saideep Ganesh, Nicholas Pooran, Kyle Philip, Ehsan Adil, Nosthush Kenjige, Sarbjit Ladda, Trent Boult, Kagiso Rabada, Jason Behrendorff, Rashid Khan

SF Unicorns

Owners: Anand Rajaraman & Venky Harinarayan

Squad: Aaron Finch, David White, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Corey Anderson, Marcus Stoinis, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Tajinder Singh, Smit Patel, Brody Couch, Carmi Le Roux, Liam Plumkett, Lungi Ngidi

Seattle Orcas

Owners: GMR Group & Satya Nadella

Squad: Shehan Jayasuriya, Aaron Jones, Nauman Anwar, Angelo Perera, Harmeet Singh, Shubham Ranjane, Cameron Gannon, Mitchell Marsh, Dasun Shanaka, Sikandar raza, Quinton de Kock, Phani Simhadri, Matthew Tromp, Wayne Parnell, Andrew Tye

Washington Freedom

Owners: Sanjay Govil

Squad: Mukhtar Ahmed, Saad Ali, Sujith Gowda, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jacobus Pienaar, Justin Dill, Moises Henriques, Marco Jansen, Anrich Nortje, Saurabh Netravalkar, Dane Piedt, Akhilesh Bodugum, Adam Milne, Ben Dwarshuis, Akeal Hosein, Andries Gous, Glenn Phillips, Josh Philippe

About MLC: Major League Cricket is the first professional Twenty20 cricket championship in the United States. Exclusively sanctioned by USA Cricket, MLC will feature top players from around the globe while also providing an opportunity for domestic cricketers to showcase their talents to a global audience, bringing world-class T20 cricket to America for the first time.

You can book your MLC tickets HERE

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