The 2023 Minor League Cricket season (branded as the 2023 Sunoco Minor League Cricket championship[1] for sponsorship reasons and sometimes shortened to 2023 MiLC) was the third season of Minor League Cricket,[2] established by USA Cricket (USAC) and Major League Cricket (MLC) in 2019.[3]Sunoco returned from the previous season as title sponsor, with Laxmi Foods and Bru Coffee also tapped as official sponsors.[4][5] The season was hosted over 19 venues across the United States from August 4 to October 7.[6][7]
The tournament was won by the Dallas Mustangs, who defeated the New Jersey Somerset Cavaliers in the finals by 44 runs,[8][9] with Andries Gous of the Dallas Mustangs winning the award for the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.[10][11] The Seattle Thunderbolts were the defending champions.[12]
Ahead of the 2023 season, the former Florida Beamers franchise collapsed and was discontinued, leading to the creation of the newly formed Dallas Xforia Giants.[13] The Hollywood Master Blasters was also discontinued ahead of the season. Additionally, following a buyout by the Kingsmen Global Sports Group, the former Chicago Blasters underwent a name change to the Chicago Kingsmen,[14] with the former DC Hawks also undergoing a name change to the Baltimore Royals.[2]
A complete list of ground venues, along with the 2023 season's schedule, was released on July 31.[15]
A team could select a minimum of 14 players in their squad, going up to a maximum of 18 players.[16] The teams released their squads shortly before the start of the season.[17]
Updated to match(es) played on September 30, 2023. Source: Minor League Cricket Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
Updated to match(es) played on August 11, 2023. Source: Minor League Cricket Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.
League stage
The league stage ran from August 5 to September 17.[2][18]
Morrisville Raptors won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining) Church Street Park, Morrisville Umpires: Vijaya Mallela and Alvin Burnett Player of the match: Trevon Griffith (MR)
Atlanta Lightning won by 27 runs Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Judson Edwards and Sandip Gondhalekar Player of the match: Hussain Talat (AL)
Kennar Lewis 52 (33) Bhaskaradipan Gnanasakthi 3/13 (3 overs)
Atlanta Fire won by 6 wickets (with 47 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Judson Edwards and Conrad Rogers Player of the match: Corné Dry (AF)
Atlanta Lightning won by 4 wickets (with 9 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Sandip Gondhalekar and Conrad Rogers Player of the match: Junaid Siddiqui (AL)
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won by 6 wickets (with 20 balls remaining) Broward County Stadium, Florida Umpires: Alwin Salmon and Max Diah Player of the match: Kevin Stoute (FLL)
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won the toss and elected to bowl
Atlanta Lightning won by 98 runs Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Rushane Samuels and Anvesh Achanta Player of the match: Mark Parchment (AL)
Atlanta Fire won by 3 wickets (with 18 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Nur Uddin and Aditya Gajjar Player of the match: Nasir Hossain (AF)
Atlanta Lightning won by 7 wickets (with 57 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Rushane Samuels and Conrad Rogers Player of the match: Phani Simhadri (AL)
Atlanta Lightning won the toss and elected to bowl
Morrisville Raptors won by 6 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Judson Edwards and Nur Uddin Player of the match: Trevon Griffith (MR)
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won by 6 wickets (with 9 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Rushane Samuels and Anvesh Achanta Player of the match: Kevin Stoute (FLL)
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won the toss and elected to bowl
Atlanta Lightning won by 8 wickets (with 20 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Conrad Rogers and Nur Uddin Player of the match: Unmukt Chand (AL)
Atlanta Fire won by 7 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Anvesh Achanta and Rushane Samuels Player of the match: Aaron Jones (AF)
Morrisville Raptors won the toss and elected to bat
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won by 6 wickets (with 18 balls remaining) Param Veers Cricket Field, Georgia Umpires: Aditya Gajjar and Conrad Rogers Player of the match: Danza Hyatt (FLL)
Ft. Lauderdale Lions won the toss and elected to bowl
Raymond Ramrattan 18 (28) Dhruv Pawar 2/6 (4 overs)
Hiren Patel 32 (42) Sachin Mylavarapu 1/16 (4 overs) Stephen Wiig 1/12 (3 overs)
Manhattan Yorkers won by 6 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Ivy Mahabir and Mihir Patel Player of the match: Dhruv Pawar (MY)
Manhattan Yorkers won the toss and elected to bowl
The Philadelphians won by 5 wickets (with 25 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Colin Edwards and Ritesh Patel Player of the match: Ryan Scott (TP)
The Philadelphians won the toss and elected to bowl
New England Eagles won by 43 runs Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Ragupathy Venkatachalam and Saravanakumar Venkatesan Player of the match: Samarth Tiwari (NEE)
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won the toss and elected to bowl
Empire State Titans won by 4 wickets (with 1 ball remaining, D/L) Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Jatin Karvir and Ragupathy Venkatachalam Player of the match: Shan Tennakoon (EST)
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won the toss and elected to bat
New Jersey Stallions won by 4 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Jatin Karvir and Saravanakumar Venkatesan Player of the match: Jasdeep Singh (NJS)
Karima Gore 28 (25) Hemendra Ramdihal 5/10 (3.5 overs)
New England Eagles won by 3 runs Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Saravanakumar Venkatesan and Sundaresh R Iyer Player of the match: Apurva Maheshram (NEE)
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won the toss and elected to bowl
New Jersey Stallions won by 5 wickets (with 19 balls remaining) Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Jatin Karvir and Sundaresh R Iyer Player of the match: Derone Davis (NJS)
New England Eagles won the toss and elected to bat
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won by 9 runs Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Saravanakumar Venkatesan and Jatin Karvir Player of the match: Sunny Patel (NJSC)
Empire State Titans won the toss and elected to bowl
The Philadelphians won by 8 wickets (with 58 balls remaining) Hatfield Park, Pennsylvania Umpires: Mihir Patel and Ratesh Patel Player of the match: Ryan Scott (TP)
The Philadelphians won the toss and elected to bowl
Manhattan Yorkers won by 6 wickets (with 16 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Colin Edwards and Mihir Patel Player of the match: Hiram Shallow (MY)
New England Eagles won the toss and elected to bat
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won by 7 wickets (with 20 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Mihir Patel and Colin Edwards Player of the match: Sunny Patel (NJSC)
The Philadelphians won by 6 wickets (with 7 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Colin Edwards and Ritesh Patel Player of the match: Jonathan Foo (TP)
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won by 7 wickets (with 32 balls remaining) Mercer County Park, New Jersey Umpires: Colin Edwards and Mihir Patel Player of the match: Karima Gore (NJSC)
The Philadelphians won the toss and elected to bat
Chicago Tigers won by 5 wickets (with 14 balls remaining) Tigers Park, Chicago Umpires: Chirag Vaswani and Darpan Patel Player of the match: Hassan Khan (CK)
Michigan Cricket Stars won by 14 runs (DLS) ACAC Park, St. Louis Umpires: Srinivas Chirra and Sandeep Pathuri Player of the match: Nicholas Kirton (MCS)
Michigan Cricket Stars won the toss and elected to bat
St. Louis Americans won by 6 wickets (with 6 balls remaining) ACAC Park, St. Louis Umpires: Srinivas Chirra and Farhan Bobat Player of the match: Justin Dill (SLA)
St. Louis Americans won the toss and elected to bowl
Michigan Cricket Stars won by 7 wickets (with 4 balls remaining) Tigers Park, Chicago Umpires: Ameya Radkar and Darpan Patel Player of the match: Nicholas Kirton (MCS)
Chicago Kingsmen won by 6 wickets (with 4 balls remaining) Tigers Park, Chicago Umpires: Matin Inamdar and Karthik Raghupathy Player of the match: Hassan Khan (CK)
Chicago Kingsmen won by 7 wickets (with 60 balls remaining) Tigers Park, Chicago Umpires: Darpan Patel and Karthik Raghupathy Player of the match: Mir Hamza (CK)
Dallas Xforia Giants won by 9 wickets (with 24 balls remaining) Moosa Stadium, Texas Umpires: Myron James and Sadiq Khoja Player of the match: Aakarshit Gomel (CK)
Michigan Cricket Stars won the toss and elected to bat
Michigan Cricket Stars won by 6 wickets (with 18 balls remaining) Moosa Stadium, Texas Umpires: Sadiq Khoja and Cameron Best Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (MCS)
Michigan Cricket Stars won the toss and elected to bowl
Silicon Valley Strikers won by 6 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) Arroyo Park, California Umpires: Ravishankar Byrappagowda and Sundaram Subramanian Player of the match: Lahiru Milantha (SVS)
Silicon Valley Strikers won by 5 wickets Arroyo Park, California Umpires: Shailendra Raj and Ravishankar Byrappagowda Player of the match: Srinivas Raghavan (SVS)
Golden State Grizzlies won by 5 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) Canyonside Park, California Umpires: Pravin David and Bandula Hettiarachchi Player of the match: Sami Aslam (GSG)
SoCal Lashings won by 7 wickets (with 21 balls remaining) Canyonside Park, California Umpires: Daniel Meredith and Pankaj Chaudhari Player of the match: Kirstan Kallicharan (SCL)
Bay Blazers won by 77 runs Morgan Hill Sports Complex, California Umpires: Sundaram Subramanian and Ravishankar Byrappagowda Player of the match: Saideep Ganesh (BB)
Silicon Valley Strikers won by 9 wickets (with 39 balls remaining) Morgan Hill Sports Complex, California Umpires: Sundaram Subramanian and Pankaj Chaudhari Player of the match: Pranay Suri (SVS)
Silicon Valley Strikers won by 5 wickets (with 3 balls remaining) Morgan Hill Sports Complex, California Umpires: Sundaram Subramanian and Pankaj Chaudhari Player of the match: Ravindra Singh (SVS)
Bay Blazers won by 3 wickets Morgan Hill Sports Complex, California Umpires: Pankaj Chaudhari and Ravishankar Byrappagowda Player of the match: Angelo Perera (BB)
Bay Blazers won by 22 runs Santa Clara Cricket Stadium, California Umpires: Sundaram Subramanian and Ravishankar Byrappagowda Player of the match: Carmi le Roux (BB)
Bay Blazers won by 5 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) Santa Clara Cricket Stadium, California Umpires: Sundaram Subramanian and Shailendra Raj Player of the match: Sanjay Krishnamurthi (BB)
Golden State Grizzlies won by 8 wickets (with 46 balls remaining) Santa Clara Cricket Stadium, California Umpires: Shailendra Raj and Ravishankar Byrappagowda Player of the match: Zia Shahzad (GSG)
NJ Somerset Cavaliers won in the Super Over tiebreaker by 2 wickets Glenville Cricket Complex, New York Umpires: Deepak Katte and Bryan Caine Player of the match: Kennar Lewis (NJSC)
^The Atlanta Lightning, the Philadelphians, the Dallas Mustangs, and the Bay Blazers automatically qualified for the Super 8s due to first-place finishes in their respective divisions.
