USA Cricket To Launch New T20 Franchise-Based Tournament

Gone are those days that playing the 50-over game felt like the exciting contest with batsmen and bowlers targeting the result. Later, Twenty20 Internationals replaced them before franchise-based T20 competitions went on to rule the roost.

Now, yet another tournament is set to grab the eyeballs, with the USA announcing the official launch of the franchise-based T20 tournament.

San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. are among the 22 locations touted for the tournament. All of them have already taken an active part in the game of cricket through club tournaments.

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The tournament, slated to be played later this summer, includes teams based in major metropolitan areas from New York to Los Angeles and would be a precursor to a full-scale “Major League” T20 franchise tournament scheduled in 2021.

It demonstrates an understanding of the importance: Iain Higgins

USA Cricket, along with American Cricket Enterprises (ACE), has announced the official launch of the Minor League T20 franchise tournament.

The tournament is slated to take place over the span of nine weeks starting from the July 4 with the games primarily taking place on the weekends.

“One of the reasons that ACE was selected to partner with USA Cricket to develop a professional T20 League was that it demonstrated an understanding of the importance of addressing various fundamental issues within the domestic game in the US,” said USA Cricket chief executive Iain Higgins as per a press release on Thursday.

We are thrilled to see the amount of progress:

USA Cricket chief is pretty much delighted to join the prestigious project, which would give the chance to domestic cricketers in the country. He is hopeful of taking it further to place the tournament in the best league of competitions across the world.

“We are thrilled to see the amount of progress already made. We look forward to Minor League Cricket delivering a regular diet of competitive domestic cricket and new playing opportunities for domestic cricketers up and down the country in 2020, as the ambitious plans for Major League Cricket continue to be developed in parallel,” he added.

Well, it would be interesting to see how things would turn out for USA Cricket.

Surely, the latest development will help the game get globalise and gives limelight to a few talented cricketers in the country.

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