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- Minor League Cricket Draft completed virtually on Friday, June 4 with seven separate regionalized drafts seeing teams select 16 player rosters
- 21 of the 27 Minor League teams drafted their rosters in regionalized drafts; the remaining 6 sides nominated their squads from exclusive zones
- All 16 player rosters are now subject to final approval from MiLC with some players still needing to prove residence and/or eligibility
Minor League Cricket is pleased to announce the initial 16 player rosters for all 27 teams for the inaugural season of Minor League Cricket (MiLC) in 2021. The Minor League Cricket Draft took place last Friday via video conference calls and was phased across 7 geographic zones. In total, more than 400 players have already been selected from the 2,000 players that were up for selection and they will be joined by a further 54 free agents to round out the full team rosters.
All 27 sides have selected an initial provisional 16-man roster with the players broken down into the following categories:
- 1 x Wildcard professional
- 2 x USA based professionals.
- 3 x Priority domestic players
- 3 x Youth players (2 x Under 21 & 1 x Under 19)
- 7 x Domestic players
Over the course of the coming weeks building up to the start of the MiLC season on Saturday, July 31, 2021, all 27 teams may also fill 2 x Free Agent positions. These positions can be selected by teams at any point up until halfway through the regular season and may come from the full list of players across the country. There are no geographic restrictions on Free Agents, but it is important to note that Free Agents must have registered and participated in the main draft to be eligible.
Minor League Cricket will need to formally approve all players named, as the roster listings for all 27 teams are subject to verification from MiLC to confirm all selected players fulfill the residence and/or eligibility requirements.
Many of the Team USA Men’s National Training Group have already been selected in these initial rosters, and the inaugural MiLC season will provide a crucial return to action for many of the best players across the United States. Minor League Cricket is the only nationwide tournament involving the best male players playing against each other at the best available facilities and forms a critical part of the evolving USA Cricket domestic cricket structure and pathway. The primary aim of the tournament is to give a platform and opportunity for the best cricketers in America to showcase their abilities at a national level, and a hugely exciting first season is in store for all 27 teams.
All 27 teams have now already begun preparations for the season’s matches with several beginning training together this week. MiLC and USA Cricket would like to congratulate all the teams on completing their initial selections and wish all of the selected players well as they begin the build-up to the historic first full season of Minor League Cricket.
TEAMS AND CONFERENCES
The full list of all competing 27 teams and their conference breakdown is as follows:
| Eastern Conference | |
| Home City / Region | Team Name |
| Boston | New England Eagles |
| New Jersey | New Jersey Somerset Cavaliers Cricket Club |
| New Jersey | New Jersey Stallions |
| New York | Empire State Titans |
| New York | Manhattan Yorkers |
| Philadelphia | The Philadelphians |
| Washington DC | DC Hawks |
| Western Conference | |
| Home City / Region | Team Name |
| SF Bay Area | Silicon Valley Strikers |
| SF Bay Area | Bay Blazers |
| Los Angeles | Hollywood Master Blasters |
| Los Angeles | SoCal Lashings |
| Sacramento | Golden State Grizzlies |
| San Diego | San Diego Surf Riders |
| Seattle | Seattle Thunderbolts |
| Central Conference | |
| Home City | Team Name |
| Austin | Austin Athletics |
| Chicago | Chicago Blasters |
| Chicago | Chicago Catchers |
| Dallas | Irving Mustangs |
| Houston | Houston Hurricanes |
| Detroit | Michigan Cricket Stars |
| St. Louis | St. Louis Americans |
| Southern Conference | |
| Home City | Team Name |
| Atlanta | Atlanta Fire |
| Atlanta | Atlanta Param Veers |
| Ft. Lauderdale | Ft. Lauderdale Lions |
| Miami | Florida Beamers |
| Morrisville | Morrisville Cardinals |
| Orlando | Orlando Galaxy |
PROVISIONAL SQUADS IN FULL
To see infographics of all 27 roster selections, please see below to view a gallery of all teams. The full list of player selections is also below.
EASTERN DIVISION
New England Eagles:
- Assad Fudadin
- Akshay Homraj
- Derone Davis
- Bruce Blackwood
- Emanuel Seecharran
- Aryan Joshi
- Chaitanya Parwal
- Zeshan Muhammad
- Rohit Maryada
- Nikhil Netaji Reddy
- Karanjit Singh
- Harshil Patel
- Muhammad Bilal
- Terrence Madramootoo
- Two (2) TBA Marquee players
New Jersey Somerset Cavaliers:
- Chandrapaul Hemraj
- Xavier Marshall
- Kennar Lewis
- Syed Abdullah
- Shawn Findlay
- Karima Gore
- Ahmed Labib
- Deep Joshi
- Yasir Mohammad
- Ruvindu Gunasekera
- Tristann Coleman
- Noman Iftikhar
- Juanoy Drysdale
- Muhammad Asad Ghous
- Umair Ali
- Mohammad Chaudhry
New Jersey Stallions:
- Justin Dill
- Aaditya Varadharajan
- Jasdeep Singh
- Dominique Rikhi
- Jon-Ross Campbell
- Raymond Ramrattan
- Anirudh Immanuel
- Saiteja Mukkamalla
- Dilon Heyliger
- Sachin Mylavarapu
- Hiren Patel
- Stephen Wiig
- Preet Shah
- Raghavender Tirunahari
- Praneeth Nemarugommula
- One (1) TBA Wildcard player
Manhattan Yorkers:
- Andre Mccarthy
- Smit Patel
- Raj Rocky Nannan
- Gajanand Singh
- Savan Patel
- Manoj Acharya
- Aman Patel
- Ved Churiwalla
- Surya Thurumella
- Raj Bhavsar
- Poojan Mody
- Kevin Shah
- Deveshwari Prashad
- Alex Amerstedam
- Raj Patel
- Vivek Ravichandran
DC Hawks:
- Dane Piedt
- Sunny Sohal
- Adil Bhatti
- Franklin Clement
- Ishan Sharma
- Rasesh Behera
- Ritwik Behera
- Raviteja Reddy
- Gourav Bajaj
- Chris Vantull
- Waleed Karimullah
- Abdul Jabar Mohammed
- Abdullah Gazhi
- Talal Zia
- Two (2) TBA Marquee players
The Philadelphians:
- Milind Kumar
- Carmi le Roux
- Derick Narine
- Francis Mendonca
- Chiranshu Bhatia
- Abhayjit Khangura
- Pranav Rao
- Aditya Sharma
- Oraine Williams
- Usman Ashraf
- Muneshwar Chris Patandin
- Looknauth Chinkoo
- Kunal Baride
- Yashwant Balaji
- Muhammad Shah
- One (1) TBA Wildcard player
Empire State Titans:
- Trevon Griffith
- Navin Stewart
- Jaladh Dua
- Bhaskar Yadram
- Damion Jacobs
- Mohamed Shaw
- Taahaa Warraich
- Tabib Ahmed
- Trinson Carmichael
- Javein Thomas
- Akeem Dodson
- Tahmid Ahmed
- Robin Choudhry
- Hemendra Ramdihal
- Kelvin Shewprasad
- One (1) TBA Marquee Player
SOUTHERN DIVISION:
Atlanta Fire:
- Rahkeem Cornwall
- Corne Dry
- Malmeege Aponso
- Ricardo Powell
- Aaron Jones
- Steven Taylor
- Akhilesh Reddy Bodugum
- Amrut Pore
- Ateendra Subramanian
- Rishi Bhardwaj
- Sagar Patel
- Jaydeep Desai
- Shaquille Forbes
- Vasu Vegi
- Ankit Hirani
- Ridwan Palash
Atlanta Param Veers:
- Darpankumar Patel
- Evroy Dyer
- Zain Sayed
- Sahil Charania
- Param Patel
- Santosh Reddy
- Dhruv Patel
- Heer Patel
- Azeem Charania
- Garth Garvey
- Neive McNally
- Mark Parchment
- Coi Thompson
- Vinothkumar Kandaswamy
- Ahsan Plummer
- One (1) TBA Wildcard player
Ft. Lauderdale Lions:
- Rayad Emrit
- Timothy Surujbally
- Kyle Phillip
- Omari Williams
- Ricky Nayar
- Roy Silva
- Pradeep Ravi
- Atul Iyer
- Elton Tucker Jr
- Herlando Johnson
- Isuru Kuruwitage
- Gavin Wallace
- Honey Gori
- Iain Beverley
- Anirban Majumdar
- Akshay Kumar Patel
Orlando Galaxy:
- Timroy Allen
- Amahl Nathaniel
- Babar Arshad
- Dunae Nathaniel
- Asghar Sheikh
- Christian Herrera
- Deep Patel
- Matthew Comerie
- Bhaskaradipan Gnanasakthi
- Marlon Bharath
- Adrian Thompson
- Kemar Jarrett
- Ramone Medwinter
- Conroy Jacobs
- Roohit Dutchin
- Shabaka Mathlin
Florida Beamers:
- Monank Patel
- Zishawn Qureshi
- Rajesh Sharma
- Suneel Kumar
- Prit Patel
- Swaril Parikh
- Fuad Azadi
- Sarnam Patel
- Akshar Patel
- Vignesh Rg
- Leslie Daniel Raj
- Manav Patel
- Rishikesh Neupane
- Ammar Malik
- Hiteshkumar Patel
- Akash Joshi
Morrisville Cardinals:
- Ryan Wiggins
- Jaskaran Malhotra
- Siva Kumar Duvvarapu
- Sanjay Stanley
- Karthikeya Jagadish
- Abhiram Bolisetty
- Aryan Shah
- Rohan Phadke
- Conrad Lotz
- Kiran Saravanakumar
- Mayur Choudhary
- Kunal Sehgal
- Gautham Ravindran
- Aditya Padala
- Mohammed Abdulla
- One (1) TBA Wildcard Player
WESTERN DIVISION:
Silicon Valley Strikers:
- Shehan Jayasuriya
- Saurabh Netravalker
- Narsingh Deonarine
- Srinivas Raghavan
- Abhishek Paradkar
- Rahul Jariwala
- Dev Thadani
- Pranay Suri
- Anshul Pratap Singh
- Gary Graham
- Saurabh Verma
- Dilpreet Billing
- Arshpreet Sidhu
- Rushil Ugarkar
- Two (2) TBA Players (1 Wildcard, 1 Marquee)
East Bay Blazers:
- David White
- Sujith Gowda
- Rusty Theron
- Josh Dascombe
- Mario Rampersaud
- Sanjay Krishnamurthi
- Nihal Desai
- Rohan Posanipally
- Skanda Rohit Sharma
- Shiva Vashishat
- Srinivasan Mohan
- Kuldeep Singh
- David Bunn
- Ruchir Joshi
- Nawaz Khan
- One (1) TBA Wildcard player
Golden State Grizzlies:
- Hammad Azam
- Sami Aslam
- Zia Muhammad Shahzad
- Shivam Mishra
- Malik Junaid
- Neeraj Goel
- Saideep Ganesh
- Vatsal Vaghela
- Aditya Srinivas
- Mohit Nataraj
- Abbas Jaffri
- Sheryar Khan
- Asad Khan
- Abhi Singh
- Bhavesh Jain
- Samson Bhatti
Hollywood Master Blasters:
- Amitoze Singh
- Cody Chetty
- Shehan Fernando
- Nisarg Patel
- Karan Viradiya
- Khalid Zadran
- Samarth Jayadev
- Ajay Immadi
- Kanishka Chaugai
- Venukalyan Madireddy
- Dhyan Ranatunga
- Sahaj Patel
- Jignesh Patel
- Pukar Patel
- Basant Regmi
- One (1) TBA U21 Player
SoCal Lashings:
- Marcus Stewart
- Elmore Hutchinson
- Hammad Shahid
- Peter Vittachi
- Gayan Fernando
- Vedant Jain
- Taha Jamal
- Rayaan Bhagani
- Aakashveer Saini
- Harpreet Singh
- Sukhwant Sekhon
- Shamsher Singh
- Iftekhar Ahmed
- Deepak Gosain
- Abhimanyu Rajp
- Rajveer S Khosa
San Diego Surfriders:
- Siddarth Matani
- Marty Kain
- Brynley Richards
- Mrunal Patel
- Timil Patel
- Ravi Timbawala
- Adnesh Tondale
- Ayan Desai
- Devam Shrivatsava
- Jaskarandeep Buttar
- Rajdeep Darbar
- Sri Krishna
- Jaideep Reddy
- Muhammad Sadiq
- Zubair Murad
- Abhinay Vanipally
Seattle Thunderbolts:
- Harmeet Singh
- Andries Gous
- Shadley Van Schalkwyk
- Prajith Mudi
- Deepak Rajendran
- Karan Rao
- Rishab Mohan
- Sahil Kancherla
- Advaith Bulusu
- Manu Jacob
- Varun Potlapally
- Nital Vasavada
- Manoj Panwar
- Anirudh Srinivas
- Ujjawal Patel
- AvdeshKumar Rai
CENTRAL DIVISION:
Austin Athletics:
- Nitish Kumar
- Awais Zia
- Shayan Jhangir
- Jannisar Khan
- Sidhesh Pathare
- Hisham Ali
- Safiullah Faheem
- Laksh Parikh
- Hamza Bangash
- Hamza Khalid
- Jay Desai
- Ahmed Butt
- Jagrit Raj
- Awais Mubarak
- Preyas Bhakta
- One (1) TBA Wildcard player
Irving Mustangs:
- Waqas Saleem
- Corey Anderson
- Rayyankhan Pathan
- Syed Najaf Shah
- Nosthush Kenjige
- Adnan Haroon
- Ali Sheikh
- Rehman Dar
- Soorya Selvakumar
- Abhiram Valisammagari
- Ninad Nimbalkar
- Petson Mathews
- Ajay Masand
- Mihir Cherukupalli
- Nital Patel
- Rohan Manekar
Houston Hurricanes:
- Zia Ul Haq
- Rameez Raja
- Willem Ludick
- Usman Rafiq
- Ali Samad
- Saqlain Haider
- Majjid Zubair
- Karthik Gattepalli
- Rishi Ramesh
- Rana Ali
- Naseer Jamali
- Sushant Modani
- Haris Qureshi
- Waleed Ahmed
- Hrrit Hinge
- Ahsan Shah
Chicago Blasters:
- Mohammed Asaduddin
- Shaheer Hassan
- Fahad Babar
- Najam Iqbal
- Hasan Bemat
- Ashhar Mehdi
- Mohit Patel
- Sachin Veereaswamy
- Mittansh Nithiyanandam
- Hunain Amin
- Amyn Gilani
- Sai Charith Daggupati(sh)
- Datta Prakash Y
- Donieke Perrin
- Talha Mohsin
- Anirudh Jonnavitula
Chicago Catchers:
- Rizwan Cheema
- Karan Kumar
- Saquib Chowdhury
- Sikander Soleja
- Arjun Kumar
- Manan Patel
- Abhyudaya Garg
- Tejas Visal
- Kevin Philip
- Mustafa Sameer Syed
- Ankush Agrawal
- Ahmadullah Adil
- Raid Ally
- Pankaj Kampli
- Sarwar Ghori
- Sneh Patel
Michigan Cricket Stars:
- Abdulahad Malik
- Calvin Savage
- Saad Ali
- Shaker Ahmed
- Ryan Scott
- Avier Christian
- Raewin Senior
- Ruhan Swar
- Zakiullah Sultani
- Arjun Ajbani
- Nikhil Kanchan
- Ferhan Ali
- Vraj Patel
- Azher Ali Syed
- Mahfuzur Rahman
- Harish Yalamanchili
St. Louis Americans:
- Siddharth Trivedi
- Jacobus Pienaar
- Unnikrishnan GP
- Hemant Mandle
- Luke Schofield
- Dhruv Duggal
- Joshua Kind
- Paras Marwaha
- Kaustubh Sriperumbudoor
- Munn Patel
- Asheesh Singh
- Yashodhan Mahajan
- Siddharth Saladi
- Sagar Thakkar
- Surjit Singh
- Murali Basupalli
