The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the retirements of fast bowler Ehsan Adil and all-rounder Hammad Azam on Sunday.

The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the international retirements of fast bowler Ehsan Adil and all-rounder Hammad Azam on July 9, Sunday. The duo will reportedly appear in the first edition of Major League Cricket (MLC).

Azam and Adil will play for MI New York, owned by the owners of the IPL franchise, Mumbai Indians. Hammad, who started his career as a cricketer in Pakistan, moved to the United States due to a lack of opportunities in his home country. He spoke about his first season in the MLC and his game for the New York team.

Major League Cricket is an emerging professional T20 cricket league in the United States. This league is sanctioned by USA Cricket and begins on July 13, 2023, with six teams in major cities participating under a single-entity model.

Ehsan made his Test debut in February 2013 in Centurion against South Africa and played two more Tests and six one-day internationals until 2015, recording five and four wickets in both formats respectively. Before breaking into the men's national team, Ehsan was a member of the Pakistan team at the 2012 ICC Men's Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia. He played 67 first-class (245 wickets), 67 List A (98 wickets) and 68 T20 (86 wickets) games from March 2012 to October 2021.

All-rounder Hammad Azam represented Pakistan at the 2010 ICC Men's Under-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. From 2011 to 2015 he played 11 ODIs (80 runs and two wickets) and five T20Is (34 runs). His domestic career lasted from December 2008 to June 2021, during which he played 107 first-class (4,953 runs and 186) and 114 List A (2,362 runs and 91) and 98 T20s (1,361 runs and 75) wickets.

The PCB congratulated the two on their service to cricket and wished them well in their future endeavours.

Both cricketers will be in action for MI New York this month in the inaugural Major League Cricket (MLC) season.