Major League Cricket: will a $120m moonshot find success in America?

Players such as Mitch Marsh, Quinton de Kock and Liam Plunkett are bringing their experience to a notoriously tough market

It was an obvious place to launch a sporting moonshot - a cricket league that can survive and thrive in America.

Last week, Space Center Houston hosted a reveal of next-generation spacesuits for a lunar mission. A few days later its main hall was crowded with cricketers wearing gaudy baseball caps in the colours of their new teams as the latest attempt to bring professional cricket to the US held its domestic player draft.