The American College Cricket USA Team !

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The American College Cricket USA was begun in 2015 to celebrate the 1st ever International Sporting event, the 1844 Cricket match between USA and Canada.It was the 1st time in history young men from 2 different countries battled on a playing field, instead of a battlefield – a truly momentous occasion that is not commemorated anywhere, but has no doubt saved multi-millions of lives all over the world since.Manik Kuchroo Harvard was the Captain who took the challenge of getting the USA vs Canada Series started back in May 2015 under very challenging circumstances where some players couldn’t get their visas in time for the event. Canada won 3-0

Next the Series was played in Riverside, California with Sai Ramesh as Captain. This team was packed with top talent that included Saurabh Netravalkar Cornell who had played for India in the U19 2010 World Cup. USA won 2-1 with rain and strong winds affecting some great cricket.

Back in Canada for the May 2016 Series Canada took this one behind a century by Captain Hassan Mirza Ryerson. Again USA was affected by visa problems for a lot players. Canadian immigration, in unpredictable ways making it difficult for verifiable college students to travel.

Texas was next, in Jan 2017, at Moosa Stadium, the best venue so far for the Series and this time USA was led by Netravalkar to a 3-0 Sereies win, though all the games were exciting with very good play by Canada despite losing.

Netravalkar could not make the next Series in Canada so Andy Sudan who had led a new Everest team to the National finals took over as Captain and ably led USA to ties the Series 1-1 with 1 game washed out by rain. This game was also notable because USA was able to defeat Canada in Canada, something that had proved difficult. Krithik Udayshankar and Meetu Patel score centuries.

The 6th Series was in Orlando, and Captain Netravalkar was called up to represent USA in the Caribbean Super50, whilst 3 players suffered from food poisoning so a depleted USA went down 3-0 . What was to be the 7th Series, Canada, did not happen because of a long winter leaving fields unplayable even after the usual time the Toronto cricket season usually started. Then colleges went off on their summer break.

Anja Catrine, LLoyd and Hassan Mirza at the 1st USA vs Canada Series in Toronto

Anja Catrine, Lloyd and Hassan Mirza at the 1st USA vs Canada Series in Toronto

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