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Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is acceptable to go the archetypal India planetary to appear successful U.S.-based Major League Cricket (MLC), aft San Francisco Unicorns announced his signing connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) for the Twenty20 competition's upcoming season.
Ashwin, who represented India successful 287 matches across each formats and took 765 wickets, retired from international cricket successful 2024 and ended his Indian Premier League (IPL) vocation past year. The 39-year-old, India's second-highest wicket-taker successful trial cricket down Anil Kumble, was acceptable to play for Sydney Thunder successful Australia's Big Bash League, but missed retired owed to a genu injury.
“Taking connected the mantle arsenic the archetypal Indian-capped subordinate to vie successful Major League Cricket is simply a large work that I afloat embrace," Ashwin said successful a statement.
"My implicit absorption is to assistance this franchise triumph games and propulsion for its archetypal championship, portion also putting connected a spectacular brand of cricket for the Bay Area fans.”
The MLC begins its 4th play connected June 18.
