Texas Super Kings

In November 2020, USA Cricket announced that ACE had acquired a 15-year lease for a former Minor League Baseball stadium to be renovated into a fully-fledged cricket stadium, which would host the Dallas franchise Major League Cricket team. Plans were reaffirmed two years later in December 2022, where MLC officially announced its 2023 season and the name of the Texas franchise home ground, Grand Prairie Stadium. In May 2022, it was formally announced during a Series A and A1 fundraising round for Major League Cricket that Anurag Jain and Ross Perot Jr. – who were among many big-name investors such as Satya Nadella and Sanjay Parthasarathy – would co-own the Texas franchise cricket team. In the buildup to the 2023 draft – which was held on March 19, the Texas franchise announced its partnership with the Chennai Super Kings. Following the draft, the team held a press conference wherein co-owner Anurag Jain, amongst Stephen Fleming and K.S. Viswanathan, publicly announced their team name – the Texas Super Kings, logo and coach for the first time. However, it was announced in late April that they had revamped their logo for it to look similar to the logos of the Chennai and Joburg Super Kings.

Prior to the launch of the official season, it was announced the MLC's inaugural domestic draft would take place on March 19, 2023. The Super Kings had the final pick of the first round draft and selected Rusty Theron, before adding Sami Aslam, Calvin Savage, and Milind Kumar with later selections. In June 2023, the Super Kings announced seven of their nine overseas signings, including Ambati Rayudu, Devon Conway, and Dwayne Bravo. In addition, they announced their full support staff lineup, including Albie Morkel and Eric Simons, among others. They subsequently announced that former South African skipper, Faf du Plessis, would captain the team and on July 5, selected Mohammad Mohsin as their domestic wildcard pick. Rayudu withdrew from the tournament following the Board of Control of Cricket in India's proposal of a year-long "cooling-off period" for recently retired players and his place taken by Imran Tahir. In the opening match of the tournament on July 13, the Super Kings recorded a 69-run win over the Los Angeles Knight Riders.