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 …
Major League Cricket announced today the signing of former England international Liam Plunkett. The Englishman has made more than 100 Test, One Day and T20 appearances for his country, taking 201 wickets in international cricket. Plunkett starred in the 2019 World Cup final, taking three critical wickets for England in a famous victory over New …
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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 …
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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 …