2025 Major League Cricket season

2025 Major League Cricket

Administrator(s)	American Cricket Enterprises USA Cricket
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and playoffs
Participants	6
Matches	25
Official website	Major League Cricket
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The 2025 Major League Cricket (also known as MLC 2025, or for sponsorship reasons as 2025 Cognizant Major League Cricket) will be the third season of Major League Cricket, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league established in 2019 by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) in the United States.

Washington Freedom are the defending champions. ^[1]

Teams

All the six teams from the previous season will take part this season.

Teams in the 2025 Major League Cricket

Franchise	Captain	Head coach
Los Angeles Knight Riders
MI New York
San Francisco Unicorns
Seattle Orcas
Texas Super Kings
Washington Freedom

Squads

Main article: 2025 Major League Cricket players' draft

Los Angeles Knight Riders	MI New York	San Francisco Unicorns	Seattle Orcas	Texas Super Kings	Washington Freedom
Saif Badar Unmukt Chand Corné Dry Adithya Ganesh Spencer Johnson Ali Khan Nitish Kumar Sunil Narine Andre Russell Shadley van Schalkwyk Matthew Tromp Karthik Gattepalli	Ehsan Adil Trent Boult Nosthush Kenjige Rashid Khan Monank Patel Sunny Patel Kieron Pollard Nicholas Pooran Heath Richards Rushil Ugarkar Agni Chopra Tajinder Singh Kunwarjit Singh Sharad Lumba	Corey Anderson (c) 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	Ayan Desai Cameron Gannon Aaron Jones Heinrich Klaasen Ryan Rickelton Ali Sheikh Harmeet Singh Jessy Singh Sujit Nayak Steven Taylor Shayan Jahangir Rahul Jariwala	Faf du Plessis (c) 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	Mukhtar Ahmed Amila Aponso Justin Dill Jack Edwards Lockie Ferguson Andries Gous Ian Holland Marco Jansen Glenn Maxwell Lahiru Milantha Yasir Mohammad Saurabh Netravalkar Obus Pienaar Rachin Ravindra Steve Smith Abhishek Paradkar

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Los Angeles Knight Riders	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to Qualifier
2	MI New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	San Francisco Unicorns	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to Eliminator
4	Seattle Orcas	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	Texas Super Kings	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	Washington Freedom	0	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Match summary

Team	Group matches	Playoffs
	Q/E	C	F

Win

Loss

No result

• Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
• Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.

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Home team ↓

• Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams.
• Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.

Play-offs

Qualifier

Challenger

Final

2025 – TBD

2025 – TBD

1

1st placed team

QW

Winner of Qualifier

2

2nd placed team

2025 – TBD

CW

Winner of Challenger

QL

Loser of Qualifier

Eliminator

EW

Winner of Eliminator

2025 – TBD

3

3rd placed team

4

4th placed team

Qualifier

2025

1st placed team	v	2nd placed team

TBD

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Eliminator

2025

3rd placed team	v	4th placed team

TBD

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Challenger

2025

Loser of Qualifier	v	Winner of Eliminator

TBD

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Final

2025

Winner of Qualifier	v	Winner of Challenger

TBD

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References

1. McGlashan, Andrew (29 July 2024). "Smith, Maxwell star in Washington Freedom's emphatic title win". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 9 August 2024.