2025 Major League Cricket season

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2025 Major League Cricket
Major League Cricket logo.svg
DatesJune 12 – July 13, 2025
Administrator(s)American Cricket Enterprises
USA Cricket
Cricket format Twenty20
Tournament format(s)Double round-robin and playoffs
Participants6
Matches34
Official website https://www.majorleaguecricket.com
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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.

Contents

The Washington Freedom are the defending champions. [1]

Background

In May 2024, MLC announced plans to expand its season from 19 games to 34 by its third season. [2] [3] 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. [4] A full schedule would be released in March, following the season's annual domestic draft. [5]

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. [6]

Teams

All six teams from the previous season will take part this season. [7]

Teams in the 2025 Major League Cricket
FranchiseCaptainHead coach
Los Angeles Knight Riders Sunil Narine TBA
MI New York Kieron Pollard TBA
San Francisco Unicorns Corey Anderson Shane Watson
Seattle Orcas TBA Matthew Mott
Texas Super Kings Faf du Plessis Stephen Fleming
Washington Freedom TBA Ricky Ponting

Squads

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

Venues

Matches are set to be held at three venues: Grand Prairie's Grand Prairie Stadium, Lauderhill's Broward County Stadium, and Oakland's Oakland Coliseum. [8] [9]

Venues in the United States
Texas California Florida
Grand Prairie Stadium Oakland Coliseum Central Broward Park
Capacity: 7,200Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 20,000
Matches: 9Matches: 16Matches: 9
Grand Prairie Stadium seating, April 2024.jpg Oakland Coliseum from above 2024.png CBRegionalPark.jpg

    Points table

    PosTeam
    		PldWLTNRPts NRR Qualification
    1 Los Angeles Knight Riders 000000—Advance to Qualifier
    2 MI New York 000000—
    3 San Francisco Unicorns 000000—Advance to Eliminator
    4 Seattle Orcas 000000—
    5 Texas Super Kings 000000—
    6 Washington Freedom 000000—
    First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [ citation needed ]

    Match summary

    TeamGroup matchesPlayoffs
    Q/ECF
    WinLossNo 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.
    Visitor team →
    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.

    League stage

    Match 1
    12 June 2025
    18:00 (D/N)
    v
    Match 2
    13 June 2025
    18:00 (D/N)
    v
    Match 3
    14 June 2025
    14:00
    v
    Match 4
    14 June 2025
    18:00 (D/N)
    v
    Match 5
    15 June 2025
    14:00
    v
    Match 6
    15 June 2025
    18:00
    v
    Match 7
    16 June 2025
    18:00 (D/N)
    v
    Match 8
    17 June 2025
    18:00
    v
    Match 9
    18 June 2025
    18:00
    v
    Match 10
    20 June 2025
    19:00 (N)
    v
    Match 11
    June 21,2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 12
    June 22, 2025
    15:00
    v
    Match 13
    June 22, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 14
    June 23, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 15
    June 24, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 16
    June 25, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 17
    June 26, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 18
    June 27, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 19
    June 28, 2025
    15:00
    v
    Match 20
    June 28, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 21
    June 29, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 22
    July 1, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 23
    July 2, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 24
    July 3, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 25
    July 4, 2025
    15:00
    v
    Match 26
    July 4, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 27
    July 5, 2025
    15:00
    v
    Match 28
    July 5, 2025
    19:00
    v
    Match 29
    July 6, 2025
    15:00
    v
    Match 30
    July 6, 2025
    19:00
    v

    Play-offs

    Qualifier Challenger Final
    July 8, 2025 – Grand Prairie July 13, 2025 – Grand Prairie
    11st placed teamQWWinner of Qualifier
    22nd placed teamJuly 11, 2025 – Grand Prairie CWWinner of Challenger
    QLLoser of Qualifier
    Eliminator EWWinner of Eliminator
    July 9, 2025 – Grand Prairie
    33rd placed team
    44th placed team

    Qualifier

    July 8, 2025
    19:00
    1st placed team
    v
    2nd placed team

    Eliminator

    July 9, 2025
    19:00
    3rd placed team
    v
    4th placed team

    Challenger

    July 11, 2025
    19:00
    Loser of Qualifier
    v
    Winner of Eliminator

    Final

    July 13, 2025
    19:00
    Winner of Qualifier
    v
    Winner of Challenger

    References

    1. ↑ McGlashan, Andrew (29 July 2024). "Smith, Maxwell star in Washington Freedom's emphatic title win". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 9 August 2024.
    2. ↑ "U.S. MLC secures List A status, plans expansion to 10 teams". Reuters . 28 May 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    3. ↑ Islam, Arif (28 May 2024). "Major League Cricket plans to expand to ten teams". SportsPro. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    4. ↑ Roller, Matt (23 January 2025). "Hundred and MLC avoid fixtures clash for 2025". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    5. ↑ "Oakland Coliseum to host nine MLC matches in 2025". BBC News . 26 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    6. ↑ Lavalette, Tristan (22 February 2025). "Several Stars Will Skip America's Major League Cricket As Pivotal Season Looms". Forbes . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    7. ↑ Behle, Brandon; Parker, Pamela (26 March 2025). "Everything Bay Area baseball fans need to know about cricket before MLC games at Oakland Coliseum". KABC-TV . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    8. ↑ Lockard, Melissa (26 March 2025). "Major League Cricket coming to the Oakland Coliseum for historic June tournament". The Athletic . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
    9. ↑ Roller, Matt (26 March 2025). "Oakland's Coliseum set to host nine games in MLC 2025". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
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