BCCI’s ban ignored? Here’s How Agni Dev Chopra is playing in MLC 2025
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's son, Agni Chopra, is playing for MI New York in Major League Cricket, but he failed in his very first match against the Super Kings. But the big question is — how is Chopra allowed to play in a foreign T20 league?
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The second match of Major League Cricket 2025 was between MI New York and Texas Super Kings. It was a very exciting match. Super Kings won the match by 3 runs. MI New York batted first and scored 182 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Texas Super Kings scored 185 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs and won the match. Calvin Savage from Super Kings was the Player of the Match. He scored 50 runs in 34 balls with 4 sixes and 2 fours.
Star batter Agni Dev Chopra, son of film director Vidhu Vinod Chopra and film critic Anupama Chopra, played for MI New York in the ongoing Major League Cricket on Friday. This is special because he was playing domestic cricket in India just five months ago.
Agni Dev Chopra made his MLC debut for MI New York on Saturday, but it did not go well. He was out for just five runs against the Texas Super Kings at the Oakland Coliseum in California.
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But the big question is — how is Chopra, who played domestic cricket in India in January 2025, allowed to play in a foreign T20 league when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not allow Indian players to play in foreign leagues?
In the winter of 2023–24, Agni broke into Indian domestic cricket by becoming the first player to score a century in each of his first four first-class matches. He is 26 years old and was born in Detroit, Michigan, not in India. BCCI rules say that active Indian male cricketers cannot play in foreign T20 leagues. So Agni did not need any permission from the BCCI. Even Unmukt Chand, the former India U-19 World Cup captain, had to retire from Indian cricket before he could play in the Bangladesh Premier League, Big Bash League, and MLC.
Meanwhile, in the match, while chasing Texas’ target of 185, MI New York lost three wickets for just 24 runs during the powerplay. Monank Patel and Michael Bracewell then added 97 runs for the fourth wicket, before Bracewell got out to Adam Milne in the 14th over.
After that, Monank and Kieron Pollard scored 38 runs for the fifth wicket, but Pollard was run out by Daryl Mitchell. After his dismissal, New York's batting collapsed, and they could only score 182 runs, losing the close match by just three runs.
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