Major League Cricket to announce HQ relo to Texas – The Business Journals

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Major League Cricket, which launched in 2023, is set to announce a headquarters relocation to Grand Prairie during a press conference on April 24 ahead of the start of its third season. Read on for more about the planned move and the sport's growing popularity here and abroad.
Major League Cricket is set to officially make North Texas its home.
The fledgling professional sports league plans to host a news conference on April 24 where it will make “an exciting announcement regarding the transition of MLC’s headquarters to Grand Prairie.” Speakers will include Johnny Grave, CEO of Major League Cricket, and Anurag Jain, managing partner of Dallas-based venture capital firm Perot Jain and a backer of the league.
Additional details were not immediately available and representatives for the league declined requests for comment.
Major League Cricket, set to begin its third season in June, is operated by San Francisco-based parent company American Cricket Enterprises. However, since launching in 2023, the league has made Grand Prairie its primary hub. The bulk of MLC matches have been played at Grand Prairie Stadium, a former minor league baseball ballpark that was redeveloped into a cricket ground. And as recently as 2023, D Magazine reported the league had plans to install its headquarters in Grand Prairie Stadium.
For Dallas-Fort Worth, MLC’s decision comes as cricket continues to grow in popularity in the U.S. and as the league aims to become a central part of the sport’s global ecosystem. Cricket is the second-most popular sport in the world behind only soccer. USA Cricket, the domestic governing body for the sport, estimates there are more than 400 local leagues, tournaments, academies, college and school programs with around 200,000 players in the United States.
The sport is expected to continue growing in the years to come. Grand Prairie was one of the host sites for the T20 World Cup, which saw the U.S. men’s national team pull off a historic upset of Pakistan, one of the sport’s powerhouses. That event generated an estimated $1.9 million local economic impact, according to Visit Grand Prairie.
Cricket will also be reintroduced into the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for the first time since 1900.
Currently, MLC consists of six teams, including the Texas Super Kings, with plans to add two more by 2027. The league previously raised $120 million in 2022 from investors including Jain and Ross Perot Jr., with plans to invest $1 billion to grow the sport domestically. Other backers include Adobe Inc. CEO Shantanu Narayen and Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.
The Texas Super Kings are owned by Jain and Perot in partnership with India’s Chennai Super Kings.
The headquarters announcement also comes three months after Johnny Grave became the new CEO of MLC, replacing Vijay Srinivasan. Grave is well known in the cricket world.
He previously was CEO of Cricket West Indies for seven years, CEO of the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup and was commercial director at the Professional Cricketers’ Association in England for 10 years.
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