DALLAS (US): Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming would be the coach of Dallas-based Major League Cricket (MLC) membership Texas Super Kings (TSK), which introduced its partnership with IPL facet Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Four-time IPL champions, CSK had lately stated that they’d make a “major announcement” with regard to their affiliation with the brand new T20 event within the US.
TSK stated in a press release that CSK will carry “operational expertise” and assist “Texas compete on the field”.
“The (Texas Super kings) team will be led by coach Stephen Fleming. Fleming is a former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team and head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He played in the first-ever Twenty20 international to be staged as captain of the New Zealand team in 2005,” stated a TSK assertion.
Fleming is a long-serving CSK head coach and has guided the Chennai franchise to 4 IPL titles.
CSK joined Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians because the third IPL facet to get related to the six-team MLC, scheduled to start on July 13.
The six MLC groups are San Francisco Unicorns, Lost Angeles, MI New York, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings and Washington DC.
Delhi Capitals, co-owned by GMR Group, are partnering with Seattle Orcas to “help build and operate a world-class cricket team”, whereas Mumbai Indians have joined the US cricket revolution by buying the New York franchise.
Meanwhile, all six MLC groups accomplished the home participant draft on the Space Center in Houston, the place they chose 9 gamers every from greater than 100 cricketers eligible to symbolize the “US cricket community”.
The the rest of every workforce’s participant roster can be crammed with high T20 cricketers from internationally.
“Cricket is the second-most popular sport in the world with a global fan base of around 2.5 billion followers, but there has not been an opportunity for the sport to grow in the US,” stated Anurag Jain, co-owner of the MLC Texas Super Kings.
“We look forward to having a professional team in Texas for the passionate local cricket community to root for and to introduce the sport to new fans across the country,” added Jain.
Four-time IPL champions, CSK had lately stated that they’d make a “major announcement” with regard to their affiliation with the brand new T20 event within the US.
TSK stated in a press release that CSK will carry “operational expertise” and assist “Texas compete on the field”.
“The (Texas Super kings) team will be led by coach Stephen Fleming. Fleming is a former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team and head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He played in the first-ever Twenty20 international to be staged as captain of the New Zealand team in 2005,” stated a TSK assertion.
Fleming is a long-serving CSK head coach and has guided the Chennai franchise to 4 IPL titles.
CSK joined Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians because the third IPL facet to get related to the six-team MLC, scheduled to start on July 13.
The six MLC groups are San Francisco Unicorns, Lost Angeles, MI New York, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings and Washington DC.
Delhi Capitals, co-owned by GMR Group, are partnering with Seattle Orcas to “help build and operate a world-class cricket team”, whereas Mumbai Indians have joined the US cricket revolution by buying the New York franchise.
Meanwhile, all six MLC groups accomplished the home participant draft on the Space Center in Houston, the place they chose 9 gamers every from greater than 100 cricketers eligible to symbolize the “US cricket community”.
The the rest of every workforce’s participant roster can be crammed with high T20 cricketers from internationally.
“Cricket is the second-most popular sport in the world with a global fan base of around 2.5 billion followers, but there has not been an opportunity for the sport to grow in the US,” stated Anurag Jain, co-owner of the MLC Texas Super Kings.
“We look forward to having a professional team in Texas for the passionate local cricket community to root for and to introduce the sport to new fans across the country,” added Jain.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com