2025 Major League Cricket season


The 2025 Major League Cricket was the third season of Major League Cricket, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league established in 2019 by American Cricket Enterprises in the United States. The tournament was played from June 12 to July 13, 2025.
In the final, MI New York defeated defending champions the Washington Freedom by 5 runs in a last-over thriller to win their second title.

Background

In May 2024, MLC announced plans to expand its season from 19 games to 34 by its third season. By January 2025, amidst concerns that the league's schedule would overlap with other T20 leagues like The Hundred, MLC announced that their season would run from mid-June to July, thereby avoiding conflict. A full schedule would be released in March, following the season's annual domestic draft.
The domestic draft, which was held in February 2025, saw a number of top players released by teams – key amongst them being Pat Cummins and Travis Head.

Teams

All six teams from the previous season will take part this season.
FranchiseCaptain
Los Angeles Knight RidersSunil NarineDwayne Bravo
MI New YorkNicholas PooranRobin Peterson
San Francisco UnicornsCorey AndersonShane Watson
Seattle OrcasSikandar RazaTBD
Texas Super KingsFaf du PlessisStephen Fleming
Washington FreedomGlenn MaxwellRicky Ponting

Squads

Initially, ahead of the season opener, the appearance of Afghan players in the tournament was in doubt due to U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on twelve countries, including Afghanistan. Trump's proclamation, however, allowed travel for players participating in a "major sporting event"; MLC was classified as such an event, thus Afghan players were allowed to participate.
Los Angeles Knight RidersMI New YorkSan Francisco UnicornsSeattle OrcasTexas Super KingsWashington Freedom

  • Nicholas Pooran
  • Dewald Brevis
  • Kieron Pollard
  • Ehsan Adil
  • Trent Boult
  • Nosthush Kenjige
  • Monank Patel
  • Sunny Patel
  • Heath Richards
  • Rushil Ugarkar
  • Agni Chopra
  • Tajinder Singh
  • Kunwarjit Singh
  • Sharad Lumba
  • George Linde
  • Quinton de Kock
  • Michael Bracewell
  • Naveen-ul-Haq
  • Fabian Allen
  • Delano Potgieter
  • Tristan Luus
  • Corey Anderson
  • Finn Allen
  • Brody Couch
  • Juanoy Drysdale
  • Jake Fraser-McGurk
  • Karima Gore
  • Hassan Khan
  • Sanjay Krishnamurthi
  • Carmi le Roux
  • Liam Plunkett
  • Haris Rauf
  • Matthew Short
  • Hammad Azam
  • Achilles Browne
  • Romario Shepherd
  • Xavier Bartlett
  • Tim Seifert
  • Callum Stow
  • Cooper Connolly
  • Sikandar Raza
  • Heinrich Klaasen
  • Ayan Desai
  • Cameron Gannon
  • Aaron Jones
  • David Warner
  • Ali Sheikh
  • Harmeet Singh
  • Jessy Singh
  • Sujit Nayak
  • Steven Taylor
  • Shayan Jahangir
  • Rahul Jariwala
  • Obed McCoy
  • Fazalhaq Farooqi
  • Shimron Hetmyer
  • Gulbadin Naib
  • Kyle Mayers
  • Waqar Salamkheil
  • Faf du Plessis
  • Noor Ahmad
  • Devon Conway
  • Milind Kumar
  • Mohammad Mohsin
  • Saiteja Mukkamalla
  • Calvin Savage
  • Marcus Stoinis
  • Joshua Tromp
  • Zia-ul-Haq
  • Shubham Ranjane
  • Stephen Wiig
  • Adam Khan
  • Daryl Mitchell
  • Nandre Burger
  • Adam Milne
  • Mitchell Marsh
  • Donovan Ferreira
  • Smit Patel
  • Glenn Maxwell
  • Mukhtar Ahmed
  • Amila Aponso
  • Justin Dill
  • Jack Edwards
  • Lockie Ferguson
  • Andries Gous
  • Ian Holland
  • Lahiru Milantha
  • Yasir Mohammad
  • Saurabh Netravalkar
  • Obus Pienaar
  • Rachin Ravindra
  • Abhishek Paradkar
  • Mark Chapman
  • Ben Sears
  • Steve Smith
  • Jason Behrendorff
  • Mitchell Owen
  • Glenn Phillips

    • Venues

    Matches were held at three venues: Grand Prairie's Grand Prairie Stadium, Lauderhill's Broward County Stadium, and Oakland's Oakland Coliseum. This was the first tournament in which games were held at Oakland and Lauderhill; Morrisville's Church Street Park hosted games the previous two tournaments.

    League stage


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    Season statistics and awards

    Most runs

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    Most wickets

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    End of season awards