The 2025 Major League Cricket (also known as MLC 2025, or for sponsorship reasons as 2025 Cognizant Major League Cricket) was the third season of Major League Cricket, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league established in 2019 by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) in the United States. The tournament was played from June 12 to July 13, 2025.
In the final, MI New York defeated defending champions the Washington Freedom by 5 runs in a last-over thriller to win their second title.
Background In May 2024, MLC announced plans to expand its season from 19 games to 34 by its third season. 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. A full schedule would be released in March, following the season's annual domestic draft.
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.
Teams All six teams from the previous season will take part this season. +Teams in the 2025 Major League CricketFranchiseCaptainLos Angeles Knight RidersSunil NarineDwayne BravoMI New YorkNicholas PooranMark BoucherSan Francisco UnicornsCorey AndersonShane WatsonSeattle OrcasSikandar RazaTBDTexas Super KingsFaf du PlessisStephen FlemingWashington FreedomGlenn MaxwellRicky Ponting
Squads
Initially, ahead of the season opener, the appearance of Afghan players in the tournament was in doubt due to U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on twelve countries, including Afghanistan. Trump's proclamation, however, allowed travel for players participating in a "major sporting event"; MLC was classified as such an event, thus Afghan players were allowed to participate.
Los Angeles Knight RidersMI New YorkSan Francisco UnicornsSeattle OrcasTexas Super KingsWashington FreedomSunil Narine (c) Andre Russell Jason Holder Unmukt Chand Corné Dry Adithya Ganesh Ali Khan Nitish Kumar Shadley van Schalkwyk Matthew Tromp Karthik Gattepalli Anrich Nortje Alex Hales Rovman Powell Sherfane Rutherford Andre Fletcher Tanveer Sangha Nicholas Pooran (c) Dewald Brevis Kieron Pollard Ehsan Adil Trent Boult Nosthush Kenjige Monank Patel Sunny Patel Heath Richards Rushil Ugarkar Agni Chopra Tajinder Singh Kunwarjit Singh Sharad Lumba George Linde Quinton de Kock Michael Bracewell Naveen-ul-Haq Fabian Allen Delano Potgieter Tristan Luus 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 Romario Shepherd Xavier Bartlett Tim Seifert Callum Stow Cooper Connolly Sikandar Raza(c) Heinrich Klaasen Ayan Desai Cameron Gannon Aaron Jones David Warner Ali Sheikh Harmeet Singh Jessy Singh Sujit Nayak Steven Taylor Shayan Jahangir Rahul Jariwala Obed McCoy Fazalhaq Farooqi Shimron Hetmyer Gulbadin Naib Kyle Mayers Waqar Salamkheil 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 Daryl Mitchell Nandre Burger Adam Milne Mitchell Marsh Donovan Ferreira Smit Patel Glenn Maxwell (c) Mukhtar Ahmed Amila Aponso Justin Dill Jack Edwards Lockie Ferguson Andries Gous Ian Holland Lahiru Milantha Yasir Mohammad Saurabh Netravalkar Obus Pienaar Rachin Ravindra Abhishek Paradkar Mark Chapman Ben Sears Steve Smith Jason Behrendorff Mitchell Owen Glenn Phillips
Venues Matches were held at three venues: Grand Prairie's Grand Prairie Stadium, Lauderhill's Broward County Stadium, and Oakland's Oakland Coliseum. This was the first tournament in which games were held at Oakland and Lauderhill; Morrisville's Church Street Park hosted games the previous two tournaments.
Oakland Grand Prairie Lauderhill Oakland Coliseum Grand Prairie Stadium Broward County Stadium Capacity: 12,000 Capacity: 7,200 Capacity: 20,000 Matches: 9 Matches: 16 Matches: 9
Points table
Match summary
League stage
Play-offs
Qualifier
Eliminator
Challenger
Final
Season statistics and awards Most runs RunsPlayerTeam478Monank PatelMI New York1393142.2636.76468Faf du PlessisTexas Super Kings10103*170.1852.00373Quinton de KockMI New York1277142.9131.08369Matthew ShortSan Francisco Unicorns891164.3845.00360Nicholas PooranMI New York13108*134.8336.00 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets PlayerTeam18Xavier BartlettSan Francisco Unicorns1140.14/288.8617Haris RaufSan Francisco Unicorns828.14/329.0815Trent BoultMI New York1248.04/178.0015Noor AhmadTexas Super Kings1142.04/258.0414Adam MilneTexas Super Kings620.55/237.10 Source: ESPNcricinfo
End of season awards Highest Wicket Taker of the Tournament: Xavier Bartlett Most Valuable Player of the Tournament: Mitchell Owen Domestic Player of the Tournament: Monank Patel Most Valuable Player and the Best U23 Player of the Tournament: Rushil Ugarkar
Broadcasting +Broadcasters for the tournamentCountry/Sub-regionRights holder(s)North AmericaWillowNorthern CaliforniaNBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports California (SFU matches only)CaribbeanESPNUnited KingdomPremier SportsMiddle EastCricbuzzNorth AfricaCricbuzzSub-Saharan AfricaESPNIndiaStar Sports, JioHotstarPakistanA SportsAustraliaSevenNew ZealandSky NZ
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