---
type: season
title: MLC 2025 — Season 3
description: Major League Cricket Season 3, 2025. 33 matches, 6 teams, 110 players. MI New York won their second championship, defeating Washington Freedom by 5 runs in the final on 2025-07-13.
resource: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/mlc
status: active
last_verified: 2026-06-18
timestamp: 2026-06-18
license: CC-BY-3.0
source_system: CricketStudio
source_boundary: public_open_data
canonical_page: https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/mlc
entity_id: cricketstudio:season:mlc-2025
dataset_version: "2026-06-11"
tags:
  - cricket
  - MLC
  - MLC-2025
  - season
  - T20
  - champions
related:
  - ../leagues/major-league-cricket.md
  - mlc-2024.md
  - mlc-2026.md
  - ../../research/state-of-mlc-2025.md
provenance:
  source: Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (CC BY 3.0), via CricketStudio derived claim layer
  confidence: high
  computed_at: "2026-06-11"
---

# MLC 2025 — Season 3

## Summary

MLC Season 3 was the largest to date — 33 matches, 3 venues, 110 players. MI New York claimed their second title with a 5-run win over Washington Freedom in the final.

## Key Facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Season | 2025 (Season 3) |
| Matches played | 33 |
| Teams | 6 |
| Players used | 110 |
| Venues | 3 |
| Champion | MI New York |
| Final | MI New York beat Washington Freedom by 5 runs (2025-07-13) |
| Orange Cap leader | MD Patel — 478 runs |
| Purple Cap leader | XC Bartlett — 18 wickets |

## Orange Cap — 2025

Top run-scorers in MLC 2025 (Cricsheet, CC BY 3.0):

1. MD Patel — 478 runs
2. F du Plessis — 468 runs
3. Q de Kock — 373 runs

## Purple Cap — 2025

Top wicket-takers in MLC 2025 (Cricsheet, CC BY 3.0):

1. XC Bartlett — 18 wickets
2. Haris Rauf — 17 wickets
3. TA Boult — 15 wickets

## Canonical Resource

Full season analysis: [players.cricketstudio.ai/research/state-of-mlc-2025](https://players.cricketstudio.ai/leagues/mlc)

## What Agents Should Know

- Season 3 is the largest MLC corpus: 33 matches, 7,736 deliveries.
- MI New York are two-time MLC champions (2023, 2025).
- The three-season all-time corpus spans 75 matches, 166 players, 17,413 deliveries from Cricsheet CC BY 3.0.
- See the [State of MLC 2025 research report](../../research/state-of-mlc-2025.md) for full analysis.

## Provenance and Data Notes

Ball-by-ball data from [Cricsheet](https://cricsheet.org) (CC BY 3.0). Aggregates computed by CricketStudio. Raw ball-by-ball data is not redistributed here.

## Related Concepts

- [Major League Cricket](../leagues/major-league-cricket.md)
- [MLC 2024](mlc-2024.md)
- [MLC 2026](mlc-2026.md)
- [State of MLC 2025 — Research Report](../../research/state-of-mlc-2025.md)
