When it became clear that America’s Major League Cricket had influential and well-heeled backing, with a big salary cap for its six teams to entice top players from all over the world, there was an expectation that an Australian superstar would eventually be lured.
Steve Smith, one of cricket’s greatest ever batters and former Australia captain, has not been shy of professing his love for the U.S. where he and his wife Dani announced their engagement in 2017.
He has an apartment in New York and notably spent some time there during his year-long suspension for cheating, where he was infamously photographed by Australia’s tabloid press sitting alone at a bar in Manhattan.
The flirtation started well before MLC was launched last July. “The U.S. has…
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