USA Cricket announces Men’s Senior & Youth Zonal training groups

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USA Cricket (USAC) is the governing body for cricket in the United States, overseeing the national men's, women's, and youth teams. It also manages Major League Cricket, the premier domestic Twenty20 competition in the U.S.

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USA Cricket is pleased to announce the establishment of Men’s Senior and Youth Zonal Training Groups for all six of the USA Cricket Zones.

This follows a significant amount of work undertaken over recent months by the Zonal Selection Panels to facilitate the selection of more than 275 players across all 12 of the Zonal Training Groups announced today. All of the players recently named in the 44-player National Men’s Training Group, except those currently based overseas, are also named within their respective Zonal Training Groups.

Following the completion of 11 of the 14 scheduled Men’s Senior and Youth Zonal Trials, and supported by all other available performance data and knowledge, the Training Groups announced today are very much a starting point, and the Zonal Selection Panels and USA Cricket coaching staff will work with and closely monitor the progress of all of these Training Groups on a regular basis. As appropriate, the Selection Panels may add players to, or remove players from, their relevant Zonal Training Groups based on their ongoing skill development, performance, fitness, and attitude, and players may also graduate from a Zonal Training Group to the National Training Group where appropriate. 

The Zonal Training Groups will give players the opportunity to train together in regionalized hubs and develop all aspects of their game with USA Cricket support staff and structures. These are only the initial Training Groups and there will be the opportunity for further players to progress into the groups, where justified, as the national system continues to evolve and support the increased monitoring of performances across local leagues and other domestic cricket (including a full Minor League Cricket competition) during what is hoped to be a full calendar of cricket in 2021.

Former Team USA Men’s National Team Captain, Steve Massiah, who is part of the East Zone Men’s Selection Panel, and the National Men’s Youth Selection Panel, said, “The naming of the Zonal Training Groups for Men and Men’s Youth is a critically important part in the further development of the USA Cricket domestic cricket structure and will provide another clear step in the pathway for the next generation of Team USA players. The players in these Training Groups will no doubt make up the majority of the players who will play in the 2021  National Championships. I would like to congratulate all of the players named, and wish everyone the best for their training ahead of the 2021 season.” 

USA Men’s Youth Coach, Kevin Darlington said, “I am really pleased with the naming of our six Youth Zonal Training Groups at this time. Training together within the regionalized hubs will give all of the boys a good head-start in improving their skill and fitness levels ahead of what is a huge year for our Under 19 Group. We have a clear target and focus on winning a place at the Under 19 Cricket World Cup in 2022, through the qualifier on home-soil in August, and I can’t wait to get going with all of our Zones.”

USA Cricket Operations Director, Richard Done added, “We are building better pathways and more regular training opportunities than ever before for cricketers of ability in the USA. Our Zonal training groups, in combination with the National Men’s and Women’s, and Women’s Youth Training Groups, will involve the best 350 cricketers in the United States, and they will be able to train together in smaller regionalized hubs across the country. We acknowledge that 2020 was a challenging year and that there may be players around the country who didn’t get an opportunity needed to impress the selectors, and, for that reason, these training groups are a baseline only and we will add to them as and when other players are identified. We are committed to bringing the very best of our talented players together more often at a zonal level and, ultimately, to giving them the opportunities they need to compete at higher levels domestically and challenge for places in USA Cricket National Teams at Men’s, Women’s and Youth levels.”

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Men’s Zonal Training Groups 2021

East Zone Men’sEast Zone Youth
Syed AbdullahSafwan Ahmed
Usman AshrafRahi Bhatia
Barrington BartleySumanth Bushap
Bruce BlackwoodAsad Chaudry
Trinson CarmichaelMuhammad Ans Chaudry
Derone DavisMohammad Foysal Rabbi
Akeem DodsonSalman Haider
Jaunoy DrysdaleVishalpranay Idapalapati
Jaladh DuaRakesh Mangru
Karan GaneshChaitanya Parwal
Karima GoreDereck Persaud
Akshay HomrajNaveer Ramsarran
Damion JacobsAbdur Rehman
Aaron JonesJames Samuel
Zamal KhanMohamed Shaw
Reynard LeveridgeVideep Soni
Xavier MarshallPranav Verma
Derick NarineHarsh Wadhwa
Dominique RikhiTaahaa Warraich
Waseem ShahzehdAnsaar Yasim
Nazmul SiddiqueMuhammad Usman Yousaf
Gajanand SinghMuhammad Yousuf
Steven TaylorRahimullah Zadran
Javein Thomas
Randall Wilson
Mid-Atlantic Zone Men’sMid-Atlantic Zone Youth
Manoj AcharyaImran Ali
Waqar AhmadRitwik Behera
Rohan ArvindhAdithya Bharadwaj
Gourav BajajDhruv Chaturvedi
Rasesh BeheraVed Churiwalla
Chiru BhatiaRishi Jindal
Adil BhattiArvind Kalaivanan
Raj BhavsarVishrut Kannan
Abdullah GhaziShuja Khan
Muhammed GhousNitish Mahesh
Noman IftikharVarun Mantha
Rocy-Tohidul IslamYasir Mohammad
Sahil KapoorSaiteja Mukkamalla
Jaishnav KohliDev F. Patel
Abdul Jabbar MohammedPranav Rao
Vivek NarayanShapnil Roy
Monank PatelAditya Sharma
Aman PatelIshan Sharma
Savan PatelShivoy Sharma
Tirth PatelShravan Sudhir
Raymond RamrattanShuaib Syed
Gauranshu SharmaAkhil Thuremella
Jasdeep Singh
Sunny Sohal
South Zone Men’sSouth Zone Youth
Camilus AlexanderJawad Ahmed
Nikhil AnkolkarNayan Bhogaraju
Iain BeverlyAbhiram Bolisetty
Rishi BhardwajBhaskaradipan Gnanasakthi
Azeem CharaniaAditya Gupta
Sahil CharaniaAkul Gupta
Mayur ChaudryVarun Gupta
Andre DwyerDanush Kaveripakam
Evroy DyerAdam Khan
Garth GarveyRishi Pandey
Karthikeya JagadishHeer Patel
Jaskaran MalhotraRohan Phadke
Dean MorganPranavh Pradeep
Dunae NathanielGautham Ravindran
Mark ParchmentAryan Shah
Darpankumar PatelJithen Shriyan
Sagar PatelAteendra Subhramanian
William PerkinsElton Tucker Jr.
Kyle PhillipViraj Vaghela
Kunal SehgalSamanyu Vemuri
Asghar SheikhYash Verma
Roy SilvaAbhigna Vijjapurapu
Sanjay Stanley
Mujtaba Tariq
Midwest Zone Men’sMidwest Zone Youth
Jubel AhmedFayazulhaq Aftab
Shakeer AhmedAtharva Awasthi
Ferhan AliShreyas Chandragiri
Fahad BabarKrish Desai
Sampath Reddy BarajiTaine Dry
Hasan BematAkshat Gupta
Sai Charith DaggupatiArnav Jhamb
Dhruv DuggalArya Khanna
Shaheer HassanYash Kukreja
Najam IqbalShaunak Manjure
Anirudh JonnavitulaBhavya Mehta
Nikhil KanchanMohit Patel
Mohammed KashemMunn Patel
Muhammad Ali KhanParth Patel
Joshua KindKevin Philip
Karan KumarShounak Sawant
Talha MohsinSiddhant Shah
Tamim OniAnwar Ali Shinwari
Mohit PatelKausthubh Sriperumbudoor
Vraj PatelTejas Vishal
Santosh Ramasamy
Luke Schofield
Koti Vanga
Chandradat Veerasammy
Tejas Vishal
Ankit Vora
South West Zone Men’sSouth West Zone Youth
Shams ArefeenArir Ali
Sachin AsokanAhan Bhakare
Hamza BangashMihir Cherukupalli
Ahmed ButtAbhinav Choudhary
Kartik GattepalliRehman Dar
Eshwar GullapalliHrrit Hinge
Adnan HaroonAdithya Karthikeyan
Shayan JahangirPrem Kumar
Nosthush KenjigeTanaf Wasie Mahumad
Hamza KhalidSahibullah Mohammad Gulab
Haris LatifAarin Nadkarni
Sushant ModaniPranav Narsetty
Awais MubarakLaksh Parikh
Prajith MudiRishab Patil
Shuja NaqviAbhimanyu Poswal
Jay PathakRishi Ramesh
Sidhesh PathareMark Sagayababu
Usman RafiqJosh Saripella
Hassan RashidShreyan Satheesh
Ali SamadSoorya Selvakumar
Majid ZubairArya Shah
Ali Sheikh
Abhinav Sikharam
Abhiram Valisammagari
West Zone Men’sWest Zone Youth
Ifthikar AhmedVinay Baid
Kanishka ChaugaiRayaan Bhagani
Josh DascombeKanish Bhalla
Narsingh DeonarineRohith Bharanidharan
Gayan FernandoSamson Bhatti
Saideep GaneshAndrew Daluwatte
Neeraj GoelAyan Desai
Elmore HutchinsonNihal Desai
Naseer JamaliAnish Deshpande
Marty KainAjay Immadi
Sakthi KarimanalAarnav Iyer
Sanjay KrishnamurthiRahul Jariwala
Siddharth MataniSahil Kancherla
Saurabh NetravalkarRajveer Khosa
Mrunal PatelSanjay Krishnamurthi
Nisarg PatelTrishul Manoj
Timil PatelSanat Misra
Srinivas RaghavanRishab Mohan
Abhimanyu RajpRitvik Mohindru
Saqib SaleemSurya Narayanan
Pranay SuriManav Nayak
Rusty TheronShamith Pasula
Ravi TimbawalaRohan Posanipally
Vatsal VaghelaSkanda Rohit Sharma
Karan ViradiyaDevam Shrivastava
Peter VittachiRajat Sood
Shashank VittaladevaramAditya Srinivas
Zakiullah Sultani
Dev Thadani

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