BT Sport - who will become TNT Sports next week - strike last-minute broadcast を取り引きする Major League Cricket for American T20 franchise's first season ahead of Friday's opener
- Jason Roy and Liam Plunkett are the only English players 伴う／関わるd this season?
- Mitchell 沼 was 予定 to take part before 支援 out to be part of the Ashes?
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BT Sport have struck a late を取り引きする Major League Cricket to broadcast the 就任の season of the new American T20 tournament.
MLC gets 進行中で in the 早期に hours of Friday morning, with Jason Roy's Los Angeles Knight Riders taking on the Texas 最高の Kings in the 開始 match at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
BT Sport - which will be 改名するd TNT Sports next week - will show all 19 matches using the 料金d and international commentary team from host 放送者 Willow TV, although only one game starts before 9.30pm English time.
MLC has been seen as a major 脅し to cricket in this country given it runs in the middle of the English summer. As first 明らかにする／漏らすd by Mail Sport, England batsman Roy 終結させるd his £60,000-a-year ECB incremental 契約 to （問題を）取り上げる a £300,000, two-year を取り引きする the LA team.
Roy and fellow 2019 World Cup 勝利者 Liam Plunkett, who now lives in the 明言する／公表するs with his American wife Emeleah, are the only two English players 伴う／関わるd in the first season of the franchise 競争.
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Jason Roy will be part of the LA Knight Riders 味方する to get the 競争 up and running on Friday
Fellow World Cup 勝利者 Liam Plunkett is the only other Englishman in the 競争
Ashes centurion Michell 沼 was 予定 to take part but 支援するd out to 代表する Australia
However, MLC have their sights 始める，決める on 調印 the country's best players for 未来 版s, which could 原因（となる） more problems for the England team, 同様に as the Hundred, which is held in August.
'American sports fans want to see the best in the world,' said MLC co-創立者 Vijay Srinivasan. 'They don't want second-tier talent. They 主張する on the best. England is fortunate to have some of those with the likes of Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow and Harry Brook.'
Some of the high-profile overseas players in 活動／戦闘 in the 明言する／公表するs 含む Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Anrich Nortje, Quinton de Kock, Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Shadab 旅宿泊所 and Rashid 旅宿泊所.
Australia's Headingley centurion Mitchell 沼 had been 予定 to play for Seattle Orcas but pulled out because of his 関与 in the Ashes.
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