Respected Australian captain Pat Cummins is set to play in the USA’s T20 competition after a signing a huge deal with the San Francisco Unicorns.
Cummins has signed a whopping four-year contract for the Unicorns who play in America’s Major League Cricket competition.
The first edition of the Major League Competition was in 2023 and the second edition has already lined up some big names.
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Among those names are exciting Aussie run machine Jake Fraser-McGurk and veteran batters Steve Smith, Travis Head and Glenn Maxwell.
Fraser-McGurk will join Cummins at the Unicorns while Smith, Head and Maxwell will line up for the Washington Freedom.
“MLC is developing at a rapid rate, and the US market potential is huge for cricket,” Cummins said in a statement.
“While cricket is integral to my involvement, the global network and long-term possibilities offered by the owners specifically, and Silicon Valley more broadly, presented a unique opportunity for me and my life beyond cricket.
“Anand (Rajaraman) and Venky (Harinarayan — Unicorns co-owners who are also Silicon Valley entrepreneurs) operate in a business world that excites me enormously and I can’t wait to be a part of it.”
New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra will also play for Washington, while Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan and South Africa’s David Miller have signed with the Los Angeles Knight Riders.
South Africa’s Anrich Nortje and West Indies’ Romario Shepherd have joined MI New York, South Africa’s Aiden Markram and New Zealand’s Daryl Mitchell will play for the Texas Super Kings, and South Africa’s Nandre Burger and West Indies’ Obed McCoy have signed with the Seattle Orcas.
The MLC will blast off after the World Cup from July 6 to 29.
