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NYPD Cricket team gets Debut Win in World Police & Fire Games !

The NYPD Cricket Team on Sunday Sept 4th, earned their first victory, defeating the Pakistan Consulate Security Force team easily in a 20 over cricket match. The Pakistani team made 112 and the NYPD was able to get this with 7 wickets to spare, powered by a magnificent innings of...
Posted 06 Sep 2011 | NEWS,OTHER STUFF | 0 Comments

NYU-Polytechnic bids Adrian Gordon farewell !

Adrian Gordon,Lloyd Jodah,Parth Shah & NYU-Polytechnic President Jerry Hultin at function to honor Gordon & the NYU-Poly team in March 2011 NYU-Polytechnic gave its star cricket player, Adrian Gordon,a sendoff upon his graduation with a wonderful article on the school’s website.Gordon graduated with a degree in Biomolecular Science and is...
Posted 30 Aug 2011 | NEWS,NYU | 0 Comments

Video – Don Bradman: the greatest athlete ever in any sport ?

Sir Donald Bradman was born August 27, 1908. As a 10 year old beginning Queen’s College I loved the school library, and it was there I found Don Bradman’s autobiography, and another biography of him. The Don is, statistically, the greatest athlete ever to play ANY sport. He dominated his...
Posted 27 Aug 2011 | CRICKET TV,NEWS | 0 Comments

Register for Midwest, Great Plains & Northeast Championships now!

American College Cricket teams may officially begin registration for the Midwest, Northeast and the Great Plains regional Championships. The dates are: Midwest – Oct 1 & 2, in Ohio. Champion – Purdue University – will be played in and around the OSU campus for the Gordon Gee Trophy.Gordon Gee is President of...
Posted 24 Aug 2011 | NEWS,Ohio State Buckeyes,Purdue University,University of Iowa | 0 Comments

True Champions !

What’s a Champion ? Anyone who says Lebron, stop reading, and leave this website now ! In the couple of months in early 2009 that I spent trying to create teams for the first American College Cricket Spring Break Championship, Suchit Laheri called me a number of times. He wanted...
Posted 21 Aug 2011 | Montgomery College,NEWS | 1 Comment

Recruiting Legends of the Fall ! and Spring Break !

As the new school year begins, clubs in Universities all over the USA & Canada must use this opportunity to make incoming freshmen and Grad students aware that there is cricket in colleges ! and many do !  With regional Championships in this Fall semester, its also important to get...
Posted 19 Aug 2011 | NEWS,University of Florida | 0 Comments

SPL – Satish jumps from the Sidelines to the Front !

The cricket team at the University of South Florida (USF), like most college cricket teams, was created to play in an American College Cricket Championship, the first one in 2009.    I worked with Ujval Choksi, then President of the USF cricket club) to find and motivate players to form a team at the...
Posted 18 Aug 2011 | NEWS,USF | 0 Comments

National Champs George Mason & Rutgers selected for Obama-Singh Initiative!

American College Cricket 2011 National Champions George Mason University, and Rutgers University are among 11 US Colleges selected for partnership programmes with India as part of the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative.   The announcement was made ahead of the scheduled India-US Education Summit in Washington in October. The schools are : George Mason...
Posted 17 Aug 2011 | George Mason U,NEWS,Rutgers | 0 Comments

York University’s Bhatti 53,& Wadia 37; Canada leads USA in first Innings!

by Rathan Moorthy The Auty Cup 2 day match got underway at the Toronto Cricket Skating & Curling Club (141 Wilson Avenue).  The Auty Cup is recognized as the oldest international sporting fixture in the world ( not by the same name), being first played between Canada and the USA in 1844....
Posted 15 Aug 2011 | NEWS,York University | 0 Comments

Top Undergrad & MBA Universities for Business & Cricket, 2011 !

UPenn President Dr. Amy Gutmann with the Penn Cricket team after their great perfomance at the 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship   Increasingly, when picking a University many top students are looking for colleges with cricket teams. American College Cricket has made that an option in the past 2...