Posts by Tom Dunmore

Ahead of the start of the playoffs this weekend, stats guru Tom Nielsen crunches the numbers on each of the four matchups: who are the star performers on each team? Which teams are favorite to make it to Finals Weekend on Oct. 2-3? Read on to find out! Painting the Playoff Picture In previous posts, we’ve explained…

Ahead of the start of the playoffs this weekend, stats guru Tom Nielsen returns with a deep dive into player performance from the regular season, adjusting for key factors that impact individual success across Minor League Cricket. Today, Tom looks at batting performance and overall impact from the 2021 regular season. In our previous post…

Ahead of the start of the playoffs this weekend, stats guru Tom Nielsen returns with a deep dive into player performance from the regular season, adjusting for key factors that impact individual success across Minor League Cricket. We start today with a look at bowling performance. Introducing “Bowler Impact Rankings” As an American, I cut…

Eight teams to meet in the Conference Semi-finals on Sept. 25-26, competing for $250,000 in prize money Best of three matches will stream live on Willow TV’s YouTube and digital platforms Minor League Cricket announced today the schedule and venues for the 2021 playoffs in America’s historic first nationwide T20 competition. Eight teams will compete…

And then there were eight. Twenty seven teams started the inaugural season of the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship, each dreaming of becoming the first team to lift silverware at the end of the year. For 19 teams, that dream is now gone. The final weekend of the regular season determined which two teams from…

This. Is. It. After a couple of hundred matches, a few thousand overs, almost 20,000 runs and 1,000 wickets – it’ll all come down to the eighth week of the regular season to determine the eight teams to advance to the playoffs, starting Sept. 25. For the other 19 teams, it’ll be time to start…

FINISHES. This weekend in Toyota Minor League Cricket was all about making it count when it mattered: not just in the match, but in the final stretch of qualification efforts for the playoffs. Only one regular season weekend now remains, with some teams wrapping up their final matches this past weekend. Fittingly, the action this…

Two weekends are left to play in the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship regular season, and this upcoming round will go a long way to determining which two teams from each division stay alive and reach the final eight for the playoffs. While there are fewer matches this weekend than last, the intensity and pressure…

Is #LaborDayCricket going to be a new American tradition? We can’t think of a better way to spend a holiday weekend than 30+ games taking place across the country. The timing also means it was a pivotal weekend in the playoff race, with only two weekends of games now left. It was time for contenders…

America. We don’t settle for small and simple here, do we? This inaugural season of Toyota Minor League Cricket did not launch with a handful of teams, but with 27 of them in 21 different cities all over the United States. And fittingly, on Labor Day Weekend, we’re going supersized with our biggest set of…

We’re excited to roll out the first set of Power Rankings for Minor League Cricket by our stats guru, Tom Nielsen! In this post, we’ll explore the model behind the rankings and take a division-by-division look at the best teams in the league. About the Power Rankings The Model The power rankings below are based…

We’ve been banging the drum here about the playoff chase; the long burn of the season will take eight weekends and over 200 games to determine which eight of the 27 teams will make it to the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship post-season. But sometimes, sport is not about winning the long war. It’s about…

Eleven versus Eleven. Bowler versus batter. Each person doing all that they can for their team – but also engaged in a personal pursuit of optimal performance, knowing cricket’s unforgiving individual spotlight and statistics leave nowhere to hide. Few cricketers can win a game on their own, even if a Viv Richards or a Ben…

Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship finals weekend to be held at scenic Church St Park near Raleigh, NC Final four teams to compete for largest ever prize money in American cricket history on Oct. 2-3 Historic weekend for American cricket to be broadcast live on Willow TV Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today that the…

Look, we’re not going to call anyone out specifically, but in some leagues in American sports it is literally harder to not make the playoffs than get in them. That’s not the case in the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship. Only eight teams will make the cut, the top two teams in each division, and advance to…

“Woah, we’re halfway there,” as a wise man once sang. After this weekend, we’ll indeed be exactly at the halfway point in the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV, and the contenders are really starting to shake out across all four divisions. Let’s take a look division-by-division – remember, only the top…

The third weekend of the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV brought us a series of fantastic firsts with both bat and ball: the quality of cricket across 19 games saw magical moments as the competition heats up. That was also reflected in a series of fabulous finishes with enthralling T20 cricket…

After two weeks of the inaugural Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV, the star performers to watch have started to emerge across the country. With 27 teams taking part featuring hundreds of players, projecting who would top the batting and bowling charts is certainly a fool’s errand. The stats so far tell…

Minor League Cricket teams to host first “Cricket for the Community Day” at Morgan Hill Outdoor Sports Complex International cricket stars available for fan meet and greet and media availability Bay Area teams establish new ownership groups with competition underway in inaugural national T20 championship Minor League Cricket (MiLC) announced today that its first “Cricket…

It feels like we only just started this summer of T20 cricket across America, but somehow we are already a quarter of the way through the regular season of the inaugural Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV – with around 50 matches already in the books! So perhaps it isn’t too early…

Opening weekend of the inaugural Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV brought the excitement of Twenty20 cricket to nine venues across the country, as the most extensive competition to ever take place in American cricket began with dramatic final over finishes in multiple matches. Enhanced streams hosted at six locations were broadcast…

WOW! We didn’t know quite know what to expect on the first-ever weekend of action in the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by SLING TV, but we sure saw the huge hits, stunning yorkers, thrilling comebacks, and dramatic final overs that the T20 game delivers worldwide. Only this time, and for the first time…