MI New York Sign Quinton De Kock & Omarzai For MLC 2025

South Africa's Quinton De Kock & Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai have been signed by the MI New York (MINY) for the 2025. De Kock, who retired from International Cricket last year, is now a freelance T20 cricketer and will be reuniting with the MI franchise after 4 years. De Kock played a crucial role in MI's title wins in 2019 & 2020.

Having finished at the bottom of the table at last year's MLC season, MINY will look for some inspiration from de Kock at the top of the order to kick-start their campaign.

De Kock will be joined by fellow countryman George Linde, who played a pivotal role in MI Cape Town's title run in SA20 earlier this year.

Quinton De Kock Back In MI Colors

Linde will have an opportunity to link up with his MI Cape Town team-mate Omarzai, who's been a hot pick in the cricketing world, he was also named as the ODI Cricketer of the year. Naveen-Ul-Haq, who represented the Texas Super Kings, has also switched sides this year & will play for MINY this year.

MINY have retained their core in the form of long-term buys Keiron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Trent Boult, and Rashid Khan. The quartet will yet again form the fulcrum of the MINY unit, like the two previous seasons, for the domestic talent to revolve around. MINY chose to let go of Tim David, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, and their wonderkid Dewald Brevis after the franchise's underwhelming returns last year.

To complement the shake-ups in their international contingent, MINY has revamped its domestic talent as well. The franchise roped in Indian domestic powerhouse Agni Chopra, Tejinder Dhillon, Sharad Lumba, and Kunwarjeet Singh to add to their batting firepower.

MLC kicks off on June 12 this year with the first set of games set to be played in California at the iconic Coliseum Stadium in what would be MLC's first foray into the West Coast.