England World Cup winners Jason Roy and Liam Plunkett will be among the pioneers launching Major League Cricket in the United States in the next 48 hours.
And organisers of America's inaugural Twenty20 franchise tournament have warned they want more A-list England stars – including Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow and Harry Brook – to follow suit.
Opener Roy, who cancelled his £70,000 incremental white-ball contract with Lord's to join the MLC circus, features in Friday morning's curtain-raiser for LA Knight Riders against Texas Super Kings at the Prairie Stadium near Dallas.
