The University of Pennsylvania leaped from # 28 to # 4 ! whilst 2 Texas teams, Texas A & M and Texas Tech came from nowhere (being new teams) into the top 10.

Likely contenders for the top 10 this college cricket season are 2010 Midwest Champion Purdue, University of Houston and Canadian Champion Ryerson University.

Despite winning non-collegiate tournaments in the DC area, UMBC have not found the same success at the College level, and dropped from # 6 to # 18.

George Washington University has shown improvement, moving up in the rankings whilst new teams, Sheridan College’s and McGill’s performances in the Canadian Championship indicate their growing strength.

2010 Northeast Champion Rutgers had a disappointing performance at the nationals but could jump back up the rankings in the upcoming Northeast and Southeast Championships respectively.

By the end of the regional Championships we may have a new # 1 as Montgomery, 2010 Southeast Champion Auburn, UPenn, USC, 2010 Mid Atlantic Champion North Carolina State and USF are poised to topple National Champion & 2011 Chanderpaul Trophy winner George Mason !

1-George Mason University – 2011 National Champions, winner of the Chanderpaul Trophy
2-Montgomery College – 2009 National Champions, winner of the Chanderpaul Trophy, 2011 Finalist
3-Auburn University
4-University of Pennsylvania
5-University of Southern Cal
6-North Carolina State
7-Texas A & M
8-York University – 2010 Champions, winner of the Chanderpaul Trophy
9-University of South Florida
10-Texas Tech
11-Rutgers University
12-NYU-Polytechnic
13-Ohio State
14-University of Florida
15-University of Iowa
16-University of Minnesota
17-Thunderbird School of Global Management
18-University of Maryland-Baltimore Cty
19-George Washington U
20-U of Central Florida
21-Florida International
22-McGill University
23-NJ Institute of Technology
24-Boston University
25-Cleveland State
26-Florida Atlantic
27-College of Wooster
28-University of Houston
29-Purdue University
30-Ryerson University
31-Sheridan College
32-York College
33-Virgina Tech

These are the Top 33 of the aproximately 50 college cricket teams that will particpate in the 2011 regional Championships of American College Cricket. If you don’t see your College’s name – its simple, you can crack the Top 33 in the regionals.

Factors for Rankings:

1.The final four at the nationals, the 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship, automatically claim the top four ranks.
2.Number of games won in the National and Conference Championships
3.Participation in the national Championship. Teams in the nationals automatically rank above those that were not.
4.Promotion of American College Cricket
5.Other criteria such as quality of opponents’ record may apply.

National Champions George Mason

UPenn’s Gavish Sharma and Saksham Karwal (captain) speak with Carl Bennett

UPenn Cricket has named its team for the national Championship. Undergrad and Captain Saksham Karwal said, “It would be a fitting tribute to the Penn’s history to bring back the Chanderpaul Trophy”. The Club Vice President Roshan Rai added, “The entire Penn team is grateful to Mike Reno and the Sports Council for its continued support and generosity.”
Both last year and this year the financial support given to the club by the University has been among the best.

TEAM: Saksham Karwal (Captain),Roshan Rai,Mayurnath Sankar Rao,Gavish Sharma,Varun Madan,Anubhav Sharma,Bhavik Shah,Rushabh Shah,Subash Poudel,Jay Dave,Rahul Bourothu,Dhruv Tosniwal.

The following history of cricket at Penn is excerpted from the University of Pennsylvania website – University Archives and Records Center:

Cricket, organized as Penn’s first sport in 1842, began splendidly but then faded away after the graduation of William Rotch Wister in 1846. It began as the Junior Crciket Club and a coach was hired to teach cricket strategies and techniques to the students.

In the 1860s it experienced a revival,and then, with only a few short breaks, would continue as an organized sport at UPenn until 1924. During much of the nineteenth century, cricket was just as popular, if not more popular than the emerging campus sports of baseball, crew, football and track and field.

There is evidence that a Varsity XI played every season in the 70′s after 1875; opponents included Haverford College, Columbia University, Penn alumni, and the St. George XI of New York City.In 1881 Penn joined with Harvard, Haverford, Princeton and Columbia to form the Intercollegiate Cricket Association. Later Cornell would also be admitted.

In 1895 Penn began competing on the international level. In July a cricket match was played on the Manheim grounds in Germantown,PA with one team made up of players from colleges in the United States and the other team consisting of young men from Canadian colleges; six Penn students were on the American team. Then, in September, past and current members of Penn’s varsity cricket team played past and current members of the English cricket teams of Oxford and Cambridge; Penn defeated the Oxford-Cambridge team by a margin of one hundred runs.

Cricket continued to thrive at the University of Pennsylvania after the turn of the century. In the summer of 1906, the Penn cricket team toured Canada to play matches with clubs there. The following summer, of 1907, the team made its most important tour, traveling to England and Ireland to compete with schools and colleges there. The serious decline of cricket at Penn did not began until the World War I era. After a brief revival in the early 1920s, Penn fielded its last cricket team in 1924 until recently.

In 2009 Penn cricket joined American College Cricket, and particpated in the 2010 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship.

The impact of University of Pennsylvania’s cricket teams was felt beyond the collegiate world. Many members of Penn’s cricket teams went on to play for and even to found clubs and teams in Philadelphia .
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html

UPenn at the 2010 American College Cricket Spring Championship in March 2010

The University of Pennsylvania cricket team’s first cricket ground. It was leased from the Union Cricket Club in Camden, New Jersey for use by the Penn cricket team in 1843.

As some of you, our College Cricketers graduate, the words of this song by Rod Stewart “When we were the New Boys” clearly express what must be going through through your minds, as you part from your friends and fellow cricketers - Listen 

 
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Graduated 2010

We wish you well and as pioneers you are always part of the American

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