SUMMER-FALL 2012 ISSUE O U N D R T H A E T E W K O C R I L R D C 2 AMERICAN CRICKETER SUMMER-FALL 2012 ISSUE Publisher Letter The Future of American Cricket with the insistence of New Zealand I sincerely hope as an avid fan and playing the matches at Broward a promoter of Cricket in the United Cricket Stadium. States that these talks are fruitful Promoting exciting matches in the I am not sure if it'll take another future, especially one between In- five years before another Interna- dia or Pakistan versus the West In- tional Cricket Match will be played dies in the United States will truly here on the only ICC cricket pitch put cricket in the limelight. In this Mo Ally in North America. It is evident that issue we are also showcasing pic- fter eight years of publishing the West Indies Cricket Board has torial versions of cricket develop- AAmerican Cricketer Maga- to be more lenient, since they are ment around the world. zine, it seems like we are repeating the represantive of USACA and ourselves on a yearly basis. Change should promote and further the ad- The ICC development has spent a in US Cricket is abysmal, for it vancement of cricket in the United great deal of money in many non- seems that very little has improved States. cricketing countries to promote the over the years. Earlier this year sport. In the United States youth one of the greatest event occurred Gathering from the last match cricket is growing, especially in at the Fort Lauderdale Cricket Sta- played, there was lots of excite- New York and Florida. There are dium. It was two T 20 International ment between USACA and Presi- several academies, teaching cricket Matches played between New Zea- dent Hunte of the West Indies skills hoping to develop a stronger land and West Indies cricket team. Cricket Board. According to Mr. United States cricket team. We're Dainty, President of the United also featuring the Caribbean Mas- West Indies won both matches and States Cricket Association, he feels ters tour to Adelaide Australia, the gallery of over 15,000 specta- the relationship between the two is Auckland New Zealand and Nandi tors was delighted since they were now mended and will have future Fiji.. primarily West Indians. However International Matches at the Bro- Mo Ally, Publisher [email protected] this venture took over five years ward Stadium. 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The Pepsi ICC Development Pro- gram is tasked with building a big- ger, better global game by assist- ing the 96 Associate and Affiliate Members (AMs) grow and improve land and Afghanistan in particular Women’s game at the highest in- the standard of cricket within their have been recent highlights, as was ternational level, are also priori- territories. the first class fixture between an ties of the Development Program. ICC AM Combined XI and Eng- Although global in it objectives, Some better known AMs include land in early 2012. the Development Progam is largely Ireland, USA, Kenya, China and delivered through five regional of- Papua New Guinea. Others include The Development Program is re- fices: namely Africa , Americas , Brazil, Sierra Leone, The Maldives, sponsible for implementing ICC’s Asia,East Asia- Pacific and Europe. Greece and Samoa. global event qualifying structures. Through regional and global quali- Regional areas of focus include The Development Program was fying tournaments, all AMs have improving domestic playing struc- launched in 1997. The amount of the opportunity to compete in the tures, education programs and fa- cricket being played in AMs has ICC World T20 and the ICC Crick- cilities, and providing equipment, increased five-fold over the past 10 et World Cup. The Cricket World resources and promotional materi- years, to the point where there are Cup qualifying structure is called als to AMs. approximately 750,000 male and the ICC World Cricket League. female participants currently in- The Development Program is man- volved in formal cricket programs Qualifying events for the ICC aged from the ICC Headquarters in outside the Full Member nations. Women’s World Cup, ICC Wom- Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The The ICC has set an ambitious stra- en’s World T20 and the ICC U/19 ICC Global Development Manager tegic target of more than doubling Cricket World Cup are also con- is Tim Anderson. this number to over 1.5 million par- ducted, as well as a four-day first ticipants by 2015. class competition for the top eight AMs, the ICC Intercontinental The Development Program has a Cup. dedicated High Performance Pro- gram that assists the top AMs im- Attracting more females to cricket, prove both their on and off field and improving the standard of the performance. The progress of Ire- SUMMER-FALL 2012 WWW.AMERICANCRICKETER.COM 5 Cricket Around the World Mo Ally, North Carolina Trinidad USA Uniked Kingdom Africa Africa continued on page 6 Kasmir Africa Tibet 6 AMERICAN CRICKETER SUMMER-FALL 2012 ISSUE continued from page 5 Australia Bangladesh India continued on page 7 Sri Lanka Kenya SUMMER-FALL 2012 WWW.AMERICANCRICKETER.COM 7 continued from page 7 Papua New Guinea Switzerland Barbados Japan Pitcairn Island Afghanistan 8 AMERICAN CRICKETER SUMMER-FALL 2012 ISSUE CARIBBEAN CRICKET CORNER Sammy backs West Indies to win first Test West Indies Cricket Board, Barbados DHAKA, Bangladesh – Darren Sammy said West Indies were ready to chase more success, when they face hosts Bangladesh in the first Test, which opens on Tuesday at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium here. The West Indies captain said though his side were disappointed that the only practice match scheduled ahead of the Test had to be scrapped, the players had used the time wisely, working on specific areas of their game. “The same thing happened to us a few years ago in Sri Lanka,” he said. “We still had some specific work which we were doing and this time it is no different. “The batsmen look in good form and the bowlers look ready to go, so yes, we are disappointed we did not get into the middle and play – but we are still confident that Darren Sammy Capt. of West Indies and Saheed Afridi Capt. of Pakistan. we can get the ball rolling in this series.” there and play a brand of cricket that will have to be patient in the batting and the give us a series victory.” bowling, so it will be about consistency He added: “We got an opportunity to do in the execution of the plans you put in more specific work. It means some of our He said: “Complacency is something place,” he said. batsmen have got a chance to hit a few about which we have spoken. We left the more balls, where probably in the practice Caribbean as World Twenty20 champions, “We are tempted to play two spinners, match, they may have gotten a good ball but this is a different format. Winning particularly Veerasammy Permaul, since and dismissed early.