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As many as four of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) stars Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson and Jason Roy have signed up with Los Angeles Lakers (LAKR) for the first-ever edition of the Major League Cricket (MLC). In addition, Adam Zampa, Martin Guptill and Rilee Rossouw are some of the other top international stars that will play for LAKR this season. The LAKR squad also features former India U-19 captain Unmukt Chand, USA's Jaskaran Malhotra and Ali Khan. The players were picked by the team at a draft in March. It is pertinent to note that England's Roy had agreed that his ECB contract should be terminated so that he can play cricket in USA's MLC. He had also flown in to be part of the KKR squad as a replacement. The latest development means Russell and Narine continue to be part of the Knight Riders family way beyond their association with the IPL franchise. The duo have been associated with the Knight Riders even in Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League, Abu Dhabi Knight Riders in the ILT20 and now have been roped in by LAKR apart from their participation for Kolkata. "We have assembled a strong and talented team for the debut season of MLC, who can compete at the highest level and bring joy to cricket fans around the world," Knight Riders CEO Venky Mysore said in a statement. "The Knight Riders group is poised to make a significant contribution to the growth of cricket in the United States and to bring our unique brand of cricket to new audience...

T here was something weirdly gripping about the sight of the Sky Sports punditry team reacting live on a deliciously sun-dappled Oval outfield to the news on Thursday that This is both something and nothing, a tell, a symptom, a creaking of the weather vane. Such has been the pace of change in the wider super-structure, cricket’s ossified old board-led calendar blown simply away by a series of pop-up leagues conjured out of the air on fumes and paychecks, that it already feels like an inevitability. Here we have the irresistible triumph of global hyper-capitalism, as expressed via Andre Russell inside-edging a flat muscle-six over long-on while the man on commentary who just shouts “wow!” shouts “wow!” and an advert for industrial-grade sealing compound scrolls across the eyeballs of half a billon captive consumers. Read more Not that you’d know it from the telly. The key message from the Sky team, still out there passing the port to the left as the windows shatter, the chandelier falls into the soup tureen, and Sid James brushes the dust from his epaulettes, is that it’s all fine, that this is all very mature and grown-up, that nothing of any great significance is happening here. This is not a criticism. The other side of this, the end of the world as we know it stuff, will be forcefully put elsewhere. It was instead fascinating and instructive to hear what Eoin Morgan, Ian Ward and Mark Butcher thought, because all three know how it feels to navigate the life of an inter...

Roy's 79-ball century was his 11th in ODIs but his first against a Full Member nation since the 2019 World Cup, and though it was not enough to secure victory for England in the opening match of their tour of South Africa, it may well have transformed his prospects of helping to defend their 50-over title in India later this year. He struck 11 fours and four sixes all told, as he passed fifty in an England shirt for the first time in 15 innings, dating back to the tour of the Netherlands in June 2022. With the teams back in action on Sunday for the second ODI, also at Bloemfontein, Roy admitted that his personal satisfaction, for once, far outweighed the frustration of defeat. "I'm feeling very good," he said on the morning after the match. "I actually didn't sleep that well - I had about five hours sleep. I was a bit overcome with a few emotions and stuff like that, it's been a turbulent few months. I woke up really well, though, it was the best five hours' sleep I've had. "Yeah, it was a little bit of anger around it all, just because I set everything to the back of my mind and locked a few things away in a cupboard and went out and played the way I have played throughout my career and which I haven't played in the last couple [of years]. I was frustrated I hadn't got to that mindset earlier but it was a very nice feeling." "No, not at all, absolutely not, I don't see it that way," he said. "I've played a lot of games in my career, been around for a while now and even af...

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I n the final Harry Potter book our eponymous hero was presented with a golden snitch – if you are unaware of what a snitch is, imagine a golden object of your choice – bequeathed to him by (spoiler alert) his recently deceased headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore. On it he discovered a riddle: “I open at the close.” For months he and his friends Ron and Hermione puzzled over the phrase, but to no avail: “No matter how often they repeated the words, with many different inflections, they were unable to wring any more meaning from them.” These days any fan of English cricket would solve the puzzle in seconds: it’s obviously Jason Roy. England’s white-ball opener and one-time magician of the willow wand has been teetering towards the end of something for the best part of a year, a man on the verge of a statistical breakdown, a reputational abyss. Read more There is bad form, and then there is the trough Roy has been wading through. Between the end of a free-scoring three-game ODI series In any sport players demonstrate their quality by sustaining good performances over an extended period, which after 180 international appearances, 30 half-centuries and 11 tons Roy had very much done. Having done so a few bad displays can be dismissed as simply bad form, but there comes a time when those performances become such distant memories the player has to be reclassified. As Roy himself put it on Friday, he had come to risk being seen as “a guy who had a great career, smacked it ever...

Jason Roy has been offered a two-year deal by Los Angeles Knight Riders, who share ownership with the Kolkata franchise Roy plays for in the IPL. Photograph: R Satish Babu/AFP/Getty Images Jason Roy has been offered a two-year deal by Los Angeles Knight Riders, who share ownership with the Kolkata franchise Roy plays for in the IPL. Photograph: R Satish Babu/AFP/Getty Images Read more Los Angeles Knight Riders share ownership with Kolkata Knight Riders, the Indian Premier League franchise for whom Roy played this season. Though the MLC schedule has not yet been released he could play as many games for their teams this year as he will for Surrey, which would represent a significant step on the much-discussed path towards year-round franchise contracts. His county, however, expect to retain his primary allegiance and if they qualify for the Blast’s finals day, which will be played two days after the start of the MLC on 15 July, his departure would be delayed. The MLC No England-qualified player can play in a foreign league without being issued with a no-objection certificate by the ECB, and after what Roy described as “clear and supportive conversations” with the governing body it was happy to oblige. In a statement the ECB said it did so “on the proviso that he gives up the remainder of his incremental contract”, and that it has “absolute confidence and faith that Jason is committed to England cricket”. • Download the Guardian app from the iOS App Store on iPhone or the Goo...