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England's all-time starring Test wicket-taker James Anderson is simply a astonishment people for Major League Cricket.
BBC Sport understands elder figures with astatine slightest 1 MLC squad person had their involvement pricked by Anderson's comments past month astir a instrumentality to white-ball cricket.
The unnamed franchise are present acceptable to research whether the 42-year-old would beryllium funny successful participating successful the 3rd variation of the T20 tourney successful the United States adjacent year.
Anderson could gain astir £135,000 from a abbreviated stint successful MLC, which lured immoderate stellar names from the crippled for the 2024 edition.
The astir precocious illustration of those was Australia skipper Pat Cummins, who has a lucrative declaration with the San Francisco Unicorns until 2027.
Fellow Australians Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head were each portion of the star-studded Washington Freedom team, coached by Ricky Ponting, which won this year's tournament.
Anderson, who finished with 704 Test wickets, retired from planetary cricket pursuing the archetypal Test against West Indies astatine Lord's successful July.
He instantly joined the England backroom squad and remains connected a cardinal declaration with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) until the extremity of September.
Anderson said past week he would continue successful his relation arsenic a fast-bowling mentor for England's Test bid against Pakistan successful October and was readying to articulation the broadside for their circuit of New Zealand successful December.
Anderson's past competitory T20 lucifer was successful 2014, erstwhile helium played successful the Blast for Lancashire.
His determination to dedicate the past 10 years of his vocation to red-ball cricket means helium has ne'er played franchise cricket overseas but helium believes helium is "fit enough" and "good enough" to play the format.
The league, which has influential backers including Microsoft main enforcement Satya Nadella, has expressed a tendency to lure immoderate of England's apical players to the competition.
England World Cup winners Liam Plunkett and Jason Roy person some taken portion successful the past 2 versions of MLC.
In May 2023, Roy gave up his ECB white-ball declaration worthy up to £70,000 to motion a two-year woody with the Los Angeles Knight Riders worthy £300,000.
MLC launched successful 2023 with a 19-game play but volition grow to 34 games successful 2025. The tourney was granted authoritative List A presumption successful May.
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