Major League Cricket (MLC) 2025: Schedule, Venues, Squads, & Broadcast Details

The USA’s Major League Cricket (MLC) will return for its third edition in June-July 2025. The new season will commence on June 12, 2025, in California.

Last year’s winners, Washington Freedom, will square off against San Francisco Unicorns in the opening fixture. MI New York, Texas Super Kings, Los Angeles Knight Riders, and Seattle Orcas are the other four franchises.

These six teams will compete against one another twice in the league stage. Each team will play 10 games to secure one of the four playoff berths.

A total of 34 matches will take place across three venues in a caravan model. California, Dallas, and Florida will stage the MLC 2025 games.

After the group stage, the top four teams will proceed to the playoff stage, starting from July 8. The final of the league will take place on July 13 in Dallas.

MLC 2025: Venues

Three venues across the United States will hold the MLC 2025 games. Here are the venues:

Oakland Coliseum, California

Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas

Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground, Lauderhill, Florida

MLC 2025: Schedule, Dates, Time

Date	Match	Time (Local / IST)	Venue
Jun 12	San Francisco Unicorns vs Washington Freedom	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 13)	California
Jun 13	MI New York vs Texas Super Kings	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 14)	California
Jun 14	San Francisco Unicorns vs Los Angeles Knight Riders	2:00 PM / 2:30 AM (Jun 15)	California
Jun 14	Seattle Orcas vs Washington Freedom	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 15)	California
Jun 15	Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Texas Super Kings	2:00 PM / 2:30 AM (Jun 16)	California
Jun 15	San Francisco Unicorns vs MI New York	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 16)	California
Jun 16	Texas Super Kings vs Seattle Orcas	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 17)	California
Jun 17	Washington Freedom vs Los Angeles Knight Riders	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 18)	California
Jun 18	MI New York vs Seattle Orcas	6:00 PM / 6:30 AM (Jun 19)	California
Jun 20	Texas Super Kings vs San Francisco Unicorns	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 21)	Dallas
Jun 21	MI New York vs Washington Freedom	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 22)	Dallas
Jun 22	Seattle Orcas vs Los Angeles Knight Riders	3:00 PM / 1:30 AM (Jun 23)	Dallas
Jun 22	Washington Freedom vs Texas Super Kings	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 23)	Dallas
Jun 23	MI New York vs San Francisco Unicorns	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 24)	Dallas
Jun 24	Texas Super Kings vs Los Angeles Knight Riders	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 25)	Dallas
Jun 25	Seattle Orcas vs San Francisco Unicorns	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 26)	Dallas
Jun 26	Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Washington Freedom	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 27)	Dallas
Jun 27	Seattle Orcas vs MI New York	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 28)	Dallas
Jun 28	Washington Freedom vs San Francisco Unicorns	3:00 PM / 1:30 AM (Jun 29)	Dallas
Jun 28	Los Angeles Knight Riders vs Seattle Orcas	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 29)	Dallas
Jun 29	Texas Super Kings vs MI New York	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jun 30)	Dallas
Jul 01	San Francisco Unicorns vs Seattle Orcas	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 02)	Florida
Jul 02	Texas Super Kings vs Washington Freedom	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 03)	Florida
Jul 03	Los Angeles Knight Riders vs MI New York	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 04)	Florida
Jul 04	San Francisco Unicorns vs Texas Super Kings	3:00 PM / 12:30 AM (Jul 05)	Florida
Jul 04	Washington Freedom vs Seattle Orcas	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 05)	Florida
Jul 05	MI New York vs Los Angeles Knight Riders	3:00 PM / 12:30 AM (Jul 06)	Florida
Jul 05	Seattle Orcas vs Texas Super Kings	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 06)	Florida
Jul 06	Washington Freedom vs MI New York	3:00 PM / 12:30 AM (Jul 07)	Florida
Jul 06	Los Angeles Knight Riders vs San Francisco Unicorns	7:00 PM / 4:30 AM (Jul 07)	Florida
Jul 08	Qualifier: No. 1 v No. 2	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jul 09)	Dallas
Jul 09	Eliminator: No. 3 v No. 4	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jul 10)	Dallas
Jul 11	Challenger: Eliminator Winners vs Qualifier Loser	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jul 12)	Dallas
Jul 13	Final	7:00 PM / 5:30 AM (Jul 14)	Dallas

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MLC 2025: Squads

Washington Freedom

Steve Smith, Rachin Ravindra, Glen Phillips, Mark Chapman, Mukhtar Ahmed, Lahiru Milantha, Andries Gous, Ben Sears, Lockie Ferguson, Jason Behrendroff, Saurabh Netravalkar, Yasir Mohammad, Amila Aponso, Abhishek, Glenn Maxwell, Justin Dill, Obus Pienaar, Jack Edwards, Iam Holland, Mitchell Owen.

San Francisco Unicorns

Corey Anderson, Finn Allen, Tim Seifert, Jack Frasser McGurk, Karima Gore, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Liam Plunkett, Xavier Bartlett, Brody Couch, Callum Stow, Carmi le Roux. Haris Rauf, Juanoy Drysdale, Matthew Short, Hassan Khan, Copper Cannolly.

MI New York

Kieron Pollard, Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Monak Patel, Heath Richards, Sharad Lumba, Agni Chopra, Kumwarjit Singh, Trent Boult, Ehsan Adil, Rashid Khan, Nosthush Kenjige, Naveen ul Haq, Rushil Ugarkar, Michael Bracewell, George Linde, Sunny Patel, Tajinder Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai

Texas Super Kings

Faf du Plessis, Daryl Mitchell, Devon Conway, Calvin Savage, Saiteja Mukkamalla, Joshua Tromp, Adam Khan, Adam Milne, Noor Ahmad, Zia ul Haq Muhammad, Marcus Stoinis, Milind Kumar, Mohammad Mohsin, Shubham Ranjane

Los Angeles Knight Riders

Sunil Narine, Alex Hales, Said Badar, Nitish Kumar, Rovman Powell, Unmukt Chand, Andre Fletcher, Sherfane Rutherford, Adithiya Ganesh, Jason Holder, Corne Dry, Anrich Nortje, Ali Khan, Tanveer Sangha, Andre Russell, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Karthik Gattepalli, Matthew Tromp

Seattle Orcas

David Warner, Shimron Hetmyer, Shayan Jahangir, Steven Taylor, Aaron Jones, Heinrich Klaasen, Sujit Nayak, Rahul Jariwala, Cameron Gannon, Obed McCoy, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Waqar Salamkheli, Jasdeep Singh, Ayan Desai, Sikandar Raza, Gulbadin Naib, Kyle Mayers, Harmeet Singh, Ali Sheikh