Major League Cricket Archives - Marketplace

Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!

Take me out to the cricket game? Investors launch a professional league for the U.S.

by Henry Epp

Jul 13, 2023

Major League Cricket is starting with modest ambitions — a two-week season — but it hopes the game's popularity will spread in the U.S.

Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma. Cricket has a huge fan base in South Asia, and Major League Cricket hopes to take the sport pro in the United States.

Randy Brooks/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

SUBSCRIBE