National Championship Results ! Final 4 on SONY, presented by SLING !

The 11th American College Cricket National Championship this year took place at 2 venues, CBRP usual and Miramar which had never been used before but its 2 fields were similar to CBRP. The weather proved awesome and the extracurricular activities loads of fun as usual – Spring Break in Ft Lauderdale and Miami can hardly be better.

Live Streaming was planned for through out the Championship but huge Facebook problems restricted it on the 1st day especially. Some exciting cricket happened and fortunately some of it was caught on the Live Streams.

The Live Streams can be seen here https://www.facebook.com/pg/CollegeCricket/videos/?ref=page_internal

2017 Champion Ryerson, NJIT, U of Maryland and West Virginia made it to the Semis, to be televised by SONY, the world’s largest cricket broadcaster, presented by SLING.

DAY 1 – Wed
New team UA Huntsville shocked early, defeating Ryerson, one of the strongest teams since 2011. However Huntsville then later lost to West Virginia

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=616&clubId=3456

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=617&clubId=3456
West Virginia won vs Virginia Tech in the ‘Battle of the Virginias’

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=618&clubId=3456
New team Humber College defeated Northeastern. Humber was experienced, playing for some time in Canadian College Cricket.

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=619&clubId=3456

Ryerson Captain Anees Saeed struck the 1st century, 105 in 54 balls whilst Jamison Franco Ryerson made 58

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=620&clubId=3456

Northeastern won over Penn State with Captain Krupashankar making 77.

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=622&clubId=3456

ASU vs Boston U https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=623&clubId=3456

DAY 2 – Thursday

Arizona State vs Cleveland State https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=624&clubId=3456

West Virginia vs Ryerson https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=625&clubId=3456

Humber College vs Laurier https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=626&clubId=3456

UC Berkeley vs NJIT https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=627&clubId=3456

South Alabama vs UC Berkeley https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=628&clubId=3456

Penn State vs Humber https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=629&clubId=3456

McGill vs Boston U https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=630&clubId=3456

UA Birmingham vs NJIT https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=631&clubId=3456

Virginia Tech vs UA Huntsville https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=632&clubId=3456

Laurier vs Penn State https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=633&clubId=3456

Cleveland State vs McGill https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=634&clubId=3456

DAY 3 – Friday

NJIT vs South Alabama https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=635&clubId=3456

Iowa State vs South Alabama https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=636&clubId=3456

Harvard vs Drexel https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=637&clubId=3456

Arizona State vs McGill https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=638&clubId=3456

Northeastern vs Laurier https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=639&clubId=3456

UA Birmingham vs UC Berkeley https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=640&clubId=3456

Maryland vs Everest https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=641&clubId=3456

Drexel vs UF https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=642&clubId=3456

Harvard vs Carnegie Mellon https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=643&clubId=3456

UA Birmingham vs South Alabama https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=644&clubId=3456

Everest vs Iowa State https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=645&clubId=3456

Maryland vs UF https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=646&clubId=3456

DAY 4 – Saturday

Drexel vs Everest https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=647&clubId=3456

McGill vs Harvard https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=648&clubId=3456

Iowa State vs UF https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=649&clubId=3456

NJIT vs Humber https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=650&clubId=3456

Maryland vs Carnegie Mellon https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=651&clubId=3456

Arizona State vs Ryerson https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=652&clubId=3456

Everest vs Maryland https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/viewScorecard.do?matchId=652&clubId=3456

BATTING

Centuries = 4

Salik Iqbal (NJIT) 115

Neel Patel (NJIT) 106

Anees Saeed (Ryerson) 105

Ryan Scott (UMD) 104

50s = 40, other than Centuries- Rahul Gurajala (WVU) scored 3 50s ; Jean Paul Rocke (Ryerson) scored 3 50s.

Former Big Bash Sydney Sixer, and Australian First Class player lived up to the hype by scoring 83, 20 and 83*

7 batsmen scored over 200 runs. Incredible consistency by Raj Shekhar (WVU) who topped the aggregate with 272, but only scored 1 50 and still averaged 45.33 with a SR of 159.

Remarkably Rahul Gurujala (WVU) struck the most 4s, and only 1 six. Clearly a batsman in the traditional mold of playing ground shots well. In the meantime Ryan Scott (UMD) smashed 26 sixes.

There were 34 team scores of 150 or more, including 8 over 200. The highest team score was 261 by NJIT in which 2 of their batsmen scored centuries.

Through our partnership with Sydney University a curator , 22 year old Jake, came from Australia to assist, and learn from Broward County Stadium’s Chief Curator Melton Taylor. This program started last year and will continue every year.

ECB Test Panel Umpire Billy Taylor volunteered for his 6th National Championship.

Cricclubs provided the Live Streaming every day, as well as the Graphics on the SONY televised matches.

Jamaica Tallawahs CEO Jeff Miller presented the Awards. Jeff is also CEO of Worldwide Sports Management which is responsible for bringing International cricket to Broward County Stadium including India later this year and other major International teams.

Commentary was done by David Sentance, Obaid Ullah Baber, Hassan Mirza, myself, and on SONY various players had a stint.

Thanks to West Virginia for helping with the covers, NJIT with the Banners, Boston U with the TV production Aditya Sen (UF) for a great job as Host on our TV games. Accordingly it was Lloyd’s pleasure to take Aditya with him to the Dinner given by Indian Consul General Swati Kulkarni.

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/battingRecords.do?league=41&clubId=3456

BOWLING

4 fers = 11

Most = Sumit Sehrawat (Everest), 11 in 4 inns; Rahul Gurajala (WVU) 11.

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/bowlingRecords.do?league=41&clubId=3456

CATCHES

Sohail Choudhary (WVU) 5

Devansh Haria (Penn State) 4

Meetul Patel (Everest)

https://cricclubs.com/americancollegecricket/fieldingRecords.do?league=41&clubId=3456