The Mid West C’ship Winners 2010 – 2018
Members of the 2010 Ohio State Cricket signing ‘OHIO’
Regionals were begun in Fall of 2010, making 2018 the 10th year. The first was the Midwest Championship, held on the Ohio State University campus in 2010, and attended by its the President E Gordon Gee, and since then the teams have played for the Gordon Gee Trophy. Dr Gee eventually moved to become President of West Virginia U and the WVU Team will be striving to take the Trophy back to present to its President – which would be a unique circle. They already won the 2019 National Championship and met with Dr Gee to celebrate.
With Detroit being the location, it has become easier for Canadian Universities to participate, and this year Ryerson, Laurier which won last year, will on Sept 28 and 29. Ryerson was the 2017 American College Cricket National Champion, and the 2018 Canadian College Cricket National Champion.
American College Cricket became the first to televise cricket in USA and Canada in Oct 2011 when, with TV Asia, it televised the North East and Mid Atlantic C’ships. To date American College Cricket has televised or Live Streamed 115 games, including on ESPN and SONY. In fact, outside of the top 7 TEST countries boards, which also includes their T20 leagues like IPL and BBL, the only cricket organization in the world to get a TV deal with either of the major broadcasters, SONY or STAR, is American College Cricket which did so with SONY in 2016.
PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE GORDON GEE TROPHY ARE;
2010 – Purdue
2011 – Ohio State
2012 – Ohio State
2013 – Iowa State
2014 – Iowa State
2015- Northern Illinois
2016 – Buffalo
2017 – Wayne State
2018 – Laurier
CENTURIES SCORED AT MID WEST
2010 Faraz Arif (Purdue) 116*
2012 Romel Somavat (Ohio State) 116
2013 Tanzil Rehman (Iowa State) 105*
Saurabh Choudhari (Iowa State) took a 5 er on his debut for ISU Cyclones in 2018.
Deadline for 2019 Registration is Sep 5.
