Major League Cricket 2024: Schedule, Teams, Live Streaming, Squads And More

MLC 2024: Major League Cricket (MLC) is a professional T20 cricket league conducted in the United States. The league is operated by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) and is also sanctioned by USA Cricket and officially sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

This will be the 2nd season of the Twenty20 cricket league after the inaugural season that took place in July 2023.

MLC 2024 will begin on July 5 (July 6 as per IST) and will be hosted at the following two venues:

• Grand Prairie Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas

• Church Street Park in Morrisville, North Carolina

MI New York are the defending champions who won the inaugural season by defeating Seattle Orcas by 7 wickets.

Here are the six teams participating in the MLC 2024.

• MI New York

• Seattle Orcas

• Los Angeles Knight Riders

• San Francisco Unicorns

• Washington Freedom

• Texas Super Kings

All timings are in India Standard Time

A total of six teams will play in the 2nd edition of the Major League Cricket. These teams will compete in a round-robin format and then move forward to the knockout stages of the tournament. The 25-match tournament will include 21 round-robin matches followed by 1 eliminator, 1 qualifier, 1 challenger and the championship final.

Fans can watch the live telecast of MLC 2024 on the Sony Sports Ten 1 SD & HD and Sony Sports Ten 5 SD & HD channels TV channels in India.

Live streaming of all Major League Cricket 2024 matches will be available on JioCinema.

On June 26, Major League Cricket (MLC) announced that its 2nd season will be broadcast live in many countries.

Here is the list of countries and broadcasting channels where fans can watch the live action of the Major League Cricket 2024.

• USA and Canada: Willow by Cricbuzz

• Australia and New Zealand: Prime Video

• Middle East and North Africa: Cricbuzz

• Pakistan: A Sports

• Sub-Saharan Africa: ESPN

• UK and Ireland: TNT Sports

• Caribbean: To be announced

Here are the full squad details of the six teams participating in MLC 2024.

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

Wayne Parnell (captain), Aaron Jones, Hammad Azam, Nauman Anwar, Heinrich Klaasen, Quinto De Kock, Ryan Rickelton, Cameron Gannon, Nandre Burger, Zaman Khan, Harmeet Singh, Imad Wasim, Michael Bracewell, Ayan Desai, Shehan Jayasuriya, Shubham Ranjane, Ali Sheikh

Faf Du Plessis (captain), Devon Conway, Dwayne Bravo, Gerald Coetzee, Mitchell Santner, Calvin Savage, Milind Kumar, Cameron Stevenson, Zia Shahzad, Saiteja Mukkamalla, Md Mohsin, Zia Ul Haq, Joshua Tromp, Raj Nannan, Daryl Mitchell, Aaron Hardie, Marcus Stoinis, Aiden Makram, Naveen Ul Haq, Noor Ahmad

Sunil Narine (captain), Andre Russell, Jason Roy, David Miller, Shakib Al Hasan, Joshua Little, Spencer Johnson, Unmukt Chand, Ali Khan, Alex Carey, Waqar Salamkheil, Shadley Van Schalkwyk, Nitish Kumar, Saif Badar, Corne Dry, Derone Davis, Matthew Tromp, Adithya Ganesh

Corey Anderson (captain), Pat Cummins, Jake Fraser Mcgurk, Josh Inglis, Sherfane Rutherford, Matthew Short, Haris Rauf, Finn Allen, Matt Henry, Abrar Ahmed, Liam Plunkett, Brody Couch, Carmi Le Roux, Tajinder Singh, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Karima Gore, Jahmar Hamilton, Hassan Khan

Steve Smith (captain), Akeal Hosein, Akhilesh Bodugum, Amla Aponso, Andrew Tye, Andries Gous, Glenn Maxwell, Ian Holland, Jack Edwards, Justin Dill, Lahiru Milantha, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Mukhtar Ahmed, Obus Peinaar, Rachin Ravindra, Saurabh Netravalkar, Travis Head, Yasir Mohammad

In May 2024, the ICC awarded the Major League Cricket Official List A status, making it only the second associate-run franchise competition to acquire the status from the game's governing body.

This status means that all the records, runs, wickets and stats acquired in the MLC 2024 will now be added to the official records of the format. It also means that MLC is now an official T20 League, much like the IPL or the SA20 or Big Bash League.

American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) which operates the Major League Cricket is backed by Sameer Mehta and Vijay Srinivasan who are the founders of Willow TV, the largest cricket broadcaster in North America, and Satyan Gajwani and Vineet Jain of the Times Group in India.