In­ter­est in Amer­i­can crick­et has surged as some 4,000 play­ers reg­is­tered for a chance to play in the up­com­ing US Open T20, set­ting the stage for the tour­na­ment’s up­com­ing draft this Sat­ur­day 14 No­vem­br 2026 at the Bo­ca Woods Coun­try Club in Bo­ca Ra­ton, Flori­da, USA.

​US Open T20 chair­man Ma­ham­mad Qureshi con­firmed that 75 play­ers would be se­lect­ed dur­ing the event, mark­ing a key mile­stone ahead of the main tour­na­ment sched­uled for De­cem­ber 5-14. He not­ed that Sat­ur­day’s an­nounce­ment would pro­vide the first clear pic­ture of how fran­chis­es are shap­ing up for De­cem­ber.

​With on­ly 75 spots avail­able for thou­sands of ap­pli­cants, fran­chise re­cruiters face tough choic­es as they at­tempt to bal­ance lo­cal tal­ent with in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence. The tour­na­ment has steadi­ly grown in­to a ma­jor show­case for do­mes­tic play­ers look­ing to break through on the Amer­i­can cir­cuit along­side es­tab­lished over­seas pro­fes­sion­als.

​Sat­ur­day’s draft is ex­pect­ed to of­fi­cial­ly kick off the count­down to the De­cem­ber tour­na­ment, with of­fi­cial squad lists set to be re­leased im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the event.