MLC 2023: Full List of International cricketers set to arrive for pre-season

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Dozens of the top domestic players in the United States have gathered in Houston for the first Major League Cricket (MLC) pre-season camp.

Texas Super Kings, Los Angeles Knight Riders, MI New York, San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas and Washington Freedom, will practice across two venues in the Houston area through July 12, the day before the landmark first MLC match to be played in North Texas at Grand Prairie Stadium.

The six teams will utilize the MLC National Cricket Center at Prairie View Cricket Complex west of Houston and Moosa Stadium, an accredited One Day International venue, south of Houston.

MLC will feature top-class international talent playing alongside America's best players for the Los Angeles Knight Riders, MI New York, San Francisco Unicorns, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings and Washington Freedom.

The inaugural season will be played in a round-robin format with the four best-performing teams competing in a multi-game playoff and final round to decide a champion, to be crowned on July 30.

MLC 2023 Star Players

Most of the overseas players have not yet joined the pre-season camp but are expected to come by the end of this week.

Star players set to take part include Afghanistan T20 captain Rashid Khan, South African internationals Faf du Plessis, Quinton de Kock and David Miller, West Indians Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell and Dwayne Bravo, Australians Marcus Stoinis and Aaron Finch, England's Jason Roy and Liam Plunkett, Sri Lankans Wanindu Hasaranga and Dasun Shanaka, India's Ambati Rayudu and New Zealand's Trent Boult.

West Indies duo Andre Russell and Sunil Narine are expected to join LA Knight Riders camp soon, so is Ambati Rayudu, who will play for the Texas Super Kings in the inaugural season.

TSK coach Stephen Flemming has joined the team and players like Sami Aslam, Gerald Coetzee have also arrived for the pre-season camp. Former India u-19 captain Unmukt Chand has also joined the LA Knight Riders camp.