The inaugural championship brought together teams owned by an Indian billionaire and a group of Indian-American tech executives.
In late 2022, league officials announced the inaugural season of Major League Cricket after years of delays caused by construction setbacks on the league’s main stadium in Texas, where half the matches were played. The season lasted three weeks and featured six teams playing Twenty20 cricket, a shortened version of the sport. The teams, representing cities and states across the country—New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
sport and to become a full member of the International Cricket Council by 2030. It’s not the first effort to create a cricket market in the U.S. though. 2004 saw the first attempt at professional cricket in the U.S. with startup league Pro Cricket. That league folded after just one season. In 2015, a series of exhibition matches were hosted across the U.S. by legendary Australian and Indian cricketers Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar.
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