Posts by Tom Dunmore

Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today that fans will be able to watch all matches in the 2022 season live, with 99 multi-camera broadcasts featuring commentary to be shown across YouTube, Facebook and Willow TV platforms. Premium productions for more than 35 regular season games will include at least eight cameras, providing the best-ever coverage…

America’s first and only nationwide T20 championship returns for its second season starting June 25 The second season of the Toyota Minor League Cricket (MiLC) Championship presented by Sunoco returns this summer with 200 matches set to take place over ten weekends of action starting June 25. The full schedule of action is now available…

Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today the establishment of the Morrisville Raptors, who will begin play in the 2022 season starting on Saturday, June 25. The Raptors will play home games at Church Street Park, located in Morrisville, North Carolina, the scenic venue in the Greater Raleigh region that hosted the 2021 Toyota Minor League…

The Toyota Minor League Cricket championship presented by Sunoco offers hundreds of players across America the opportunity to compete all summer on teams vying for the biggest prize in American cricket. Draft night on Thursday, May 12 – along with other pre-draft selections made by teams – mean the majority of players now know where…

The Silicon Valley Strikers (SVS) announced today that Laxmi, the number one South Asian food brand, will join the team as an official partner for its second season of play in the 2022 Toyota Minor League Cricket (MiLC) championship presented by Sunoco, America’s first and only nationwide T20 competition. Laxmi joins the Strikers’ family following…

Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today that Toyota will return as title sponsor for its second season of play in 2022, with Sunoco signing on as presenting sponsor for America’s first and only nationwide T20 championship. MiLC also announced today that the draft for the 2022 season will take place on Thursday, May 12. Twenty-six…

Minor League Cricket returns for a second season this summer, with the opening matches slated for June 25. The nationwide T20 championship’s primary focus is on providing a pathway for the best men’s cricket players in the country to develop towards playing in Major League Cricket and with the US National cricket team – enhancing…

Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today that its second season will launch with matches on Saturday, June 25 and run for eight weeks of regular season action in the summer of 2022. America’s first and only national T20 championship will conclude with Conference Semi-finals held Aug. 20-21 and the Championship Finals Weekend over Aug. 27-28.…

You know what college your favorite running back played for and you even know what high school the top NBA and MLB players went to, but what do you know about the best cricketers in this country? How did they get to the top of their game? We continue our look at the different paths…

While we all know the path that our favorite NBA, NFL, and MLB stars took to make it to the big time, the path to being a professional cricketer isn’t quite as clear-cut or linear. Many of the top players in Minor League Cricket have come from all corners of the cricketing world to play…

With the full Minor League Cricket season in the books and the best XIs decided, Tom Nielsen takes a breath and looks back at the top individual match performances of the Minor League Cricket season. By nature, top batting performances are more impactful than top bowling performances. Simply put, there are no limits on how…

Sports fans can watch an NBA or NFL game on TV and know exactly how the guys on the screen made it to the court or the gridiron. Pro basketball players were either high school phenoms or college superstars before making the leap to the NBA and pro football players were the best in the…

A great Toyota Minor League Cricket season is now behind us, capped off by an outstanding weekend of cricket at Church Street Park where the Silicon Valley Strikers were crowned Champions. Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath, Tom Nielsen takes a look back at the last two weekends to appreciate some…

The first of a four-part series, majorleaguecricket.com has selected its best domestic XI from the 2021 Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by Sling TV. Future XIs to be revealed will include a Youth XI, Playoffs XI and Overall Season XI.  Harpreet Singh (SoCal Lashings) Matches: 9 | Runs: 365 | Average: 40.56 | Strike…

Minor League Cricket announced today the 2021 MVP awards for each of the league’s four divisions. More than 200 games took place in the inaugural Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship, the most extensive competition in American cricket history, with 27 teams competing nationwide. The championship title was claimed on Sunday by the Silicon Valley Strikers,…

The Minor League Cricket Player Impact rankings, developed independently by CricSims founder Tom Nielson, calibrate the contributions of each player by adjusting raw match metrics (runs, wickets, etc) with key factors that impact performance. Critically, utilizing ball-by-ball data, these rankings factor in the impact of the pitch surface (artificial or natural turf) on batting and…

The inaugural season of the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV came to an exciting conclusion on Sunday, Oct. 3, at scenic Church Street Park in Morrisville, NC. The Silicon Valley Strikers defeated the New Jersey Stallions by six wickets, winning a grand prize of $125,000, the largest in American cricket history,…

The inaugural season of the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV will come to a thrilling conclusion on Sunday, Oct. 3, at scenic Church Street Park in Morrisville, NC. The New Jersey Stallions and Silicon Valley Strikers will meet in a one-game championship final at 2 p.m., set to be broadcast live…

America’s first-ever national T20 Championship will conclude on Oct. 2-3 with $250,000 in prize money at stake Four teams to meet on Finals Weekend at Church Street Park in Morrisville, NC, with games free to attend Conference Finals and Championship Final will air live on Willow TV, and will stream outside the United States on…

There were a couple of moments when Unmukt Chand, on his way to compiling the highest score in this entire inaugural Toyota Minor League Cricket season, made it apparent he was a batting in a slightly different game than everyone else. The captain of the Silicon Valley Strikers, opening the batting, charged with chasing a…