Major League Cricket 2024 (5th July - 28th July)

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It kicks off this Friday. Coverage covered from the same provider as the ICC T20 World Cup, Amazon Prime.

MLC 2024 Fixtures

Group Stage
Match 1

• Date & Time: July 5, 2024, 03:30 PM EDT
• Teams: Seattle Orcas vs. MI New York
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 2

• Date & Time: July 5, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Los Angeles Knight Riders vs. Texas Super Kings
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 3

• Date & Time: July 6, 2024, 03:00 PM EDT
• Teams: MI New York vs. Washington Freedom
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 4

• Date & Time: July 7, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Los Angeles Knight Riders vs. San Francisco Unicorns
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 5

• Date & Time: July 8, 2024, 03:30 PM EDT
• Teams: Texas Super Kings vs. Washington Freedom
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 6

• Date & Time: July 9, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Seattle Orcas vs. Los Angeles Knight Riders
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 7

• Date & Time: July 10, 2024, 03:00 PM EDT
• Teams: Texas Super Kings vs. San Francisco Unicorns
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 8

• Date & Time: July 11, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Washington Freedom vs. Seattle Orcas
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 9

• Date & Time: July 12, 2024, 03:00 PM EDT
• Teams: Texas Super Kings vs. MI New York
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 10

• Date & Time: July 13, 2024, 03:00 PM EDT
• Teams: San Francisco Unicorns vs. Los Angeles Knight Riders
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 11

• Date & Time: July 14, 2024, 03:30 PM EDT
• Teams: Los Angeles Knight Riders vs. Washington Freedom
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 12

• Date & Time: July 14, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: MI New York vs. Texas Super Kings
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 13

• Date & Time: July 15, 2024, 03:30 PM EDT
• Teams: San Francisco Unicorns vs. Seattle Orcas
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 14

• Date & Time: July 16, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Washington Freedom vs. MI New York
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 15

• Date & Time: July 17, 2024, 03:00 PM EDT
• Teams: Los Angeles Knight Riders vs. Seattle Orcas
• Venue: Church Street Park, Morrisville, NC

Match 16

• Date & Time: July 18, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: San Francisco Unicorns vs. MI New York
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 17

• Date & Time: July 19, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Washington Freedom vs. Texas Super Kings
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Match 18

• Date & Time: July 20, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Seattle Orcas vs. San Francisco Unicorns
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Knockout Stage
Eliminator

• Date & Time: July 24, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Seed 3 vs. Seed 4
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Qualifier

• Date & Time: July 25, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Seed 1 vs. Seed 2
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Challenger

• Date & Time: July 26, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Loser Qualifier vs. Winner Eliminator
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Championship

• Date & Time: July 28, 2024, 07:30 PM CDT
• Teams: Winner Qualifier vs. Winner Challenger
• Venue: Grand Prairie Stadium, Grand Prairie, TX

Squads for MLC 2024 (last updated on Cricinfo on 30/6/24):
SAN FRANCISCO UNICORNS - Finn Allen, Matthew Short, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Jamar Hamilton, Josh Inglis, Sherfane Rutherford, Corey Anderson, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Tajinder Singh, Brody Couch, Haris Rauf, Hassan Khan, Matt Henry, Carmi le Roux, Liam Plunkett, Karima Gore

LOS ANGELES KNIGHT RIDERS - Nitish Kumar, Adithya Ganesh, Umukt Chand, Jason Roy, Saif Badar, Sunil Narine, Corne Dry, Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Matthew Tromp, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Ali Khan, Derone Davis, Spencer Johnson, Adam Zampa

TEXAS SUPER KINGS - Faf du Plessis, Devon Conway, Saiteja Mukkamalla, Milind Kumar, Daryl Mitchell, Mohammad Mohsin, Mitchell Santner, Cameron Stevenson, Joshua Tromp, Zia Shahzad, Calvin Savage, Zia-ul-Haq, Raj Nannan

WASHINGTON FREEDOM - Steven Smith, Jack Edwards, Andries Gous, Travis Head, Mukhtar Ahmed, Akhilesh Reddy, Lahiru Milantha, Justin Dill, Ian Holland, Marco Jansen, Glenn Maxwell, Obus Piennar, Rachin Ravindra, Amila Aponso, Lockie Ferguson, Akeal Hossein, Saurabh Netravalkar, Andrew Tye, Yasir Mohammad

MI NEW YORK - Tim David, Heath Richards, Nicholas Pooran, Monank Patel, Shayan Jahangir, Steven Taylor, Dewald Brevis, Ruben Clinton, Kieron Pollard, Rashid Khan, Romario Shepherd, Trent Boult, Ehsan Adil, Nosthush Kenjige, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Rushil Ugarkar

SEATTLE ORCAS- Quinton De Kock, Hammad Azam, Heinrich Klaasen, Nauman Anwar, Michael Bracewell, Harmeet Singh, Imad Wasim, Shehan Jayasuriya, Shubham Ranjane, Ali Sheikh, Nandre Burger, Cameron Gannon, Wayne Parnell, Ayan Desai


A fair contingent of Aussies in this comp.

 

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Game 1:

MI New York have won the toss and elected to bowl

MI New York: Kieron Pollard (c), Steven Taylor, Monank Patel, Nicholas Pooranb(wk), Shayan Jahangir, Tim David, Rashid Khan, Ruben Clinton, Ehsan Adil, Trent Boult, Anrich Nortje

Seattle Orcas: Heinrich Klaasen (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Aaron Jones, Nauman Anwar,, Michael Bracewell, Shubham Ranjane, Imad Wasim, Harmeet Singh, Cameron Gannon, Nandre Burger, Zaman Khan

 

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Game 2:

LA Knight Riders: Unmukt Chand, Nitish Kumar, Jason Roy, David Miller, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine (capt), Andre Russell, Spencer Johnson, Derone Davis, Corne Dry, Ali Khan

Texas Super Kings: Faf du Plessis (capt), Devon Conway, Aaron Hardie, Joshua Tromp, Marcus Stoinis, Milind Kumar, Calvin Savage, Gerald Coetzee, Mohammad Mohsin, Naveen-ul-Haq, Zia-ul-Haq

Texas won the toss and elected to field.

 

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Looks like a decent crowd in Dallas tonight for Friday Night Cricket.

 

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Bit of a WA Flavour in that Texas Super Kings lineup.

 

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Los Angeles lose their 2nd wicket inside the powerplay, its the big fish of Narine. Jason Roy looked out of sorts there.

 

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Spencer Johnson batting at 8 for Los Angeles suggests to me this is a fairly long tail.

 

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Beautiful shot from Unmukt for 4 .

 

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Unmukt goes back-to-back boundaries.

 

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Unmukt with 3 boundaries in a row!

 

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There are no demons in the wicket, Jason Roy looked like he was batting on a 5th day wicket in Chennai. He is that out of sorts.

 

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Hardie gets a wicket in his 1st over of MLC season 2

 

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Derone goes bang for 4 off Coetzee. Lovely hit.

 

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Unmukt Chand has a licence to go now for LA with 11 balls to go and 4 wickets in hand.

 

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Unmukt gets a boundary , and now there are 10 deliveries left.

 

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HUGE From Unmukt! 6 to start the last over.

 

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6 then out, the Hulk gets a wicket very next ball.

 

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Spencer Johnson v Stoinis in Texas , you love to see it.

These two have a bit of history in BBL as well.

 

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My bad its Ory, who spanks the Stoin for 4 first ball.

 

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Ory goes reverse paddle , Stoinis for 4.

Expensive over this one for Stoinis.

 

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Stoinis finishes with 2/37 off his 3 overs and Los Angeles took a liking for him tonight.

 

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LA finish on 162/7 and the game feels delicately poised with the chase from Texas coming up soon.

 

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If Narine was causing IPL batsman all sorts this season, cant imagine what he will do the MLC players this season.

He was important in LAs win tonight.

 

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Steve Smith gets his team off to a winning start with the Washington Freedom in Game 3.