Year: 2022

The 2022 Edition of the US Open T20 tournament has been hailed a tremendous success by players and officials who participated. The 14th Edition was the longest in the tournament’s history spanning over nine days from December 5 to 13 at the Central Broward Regional Park in Fort Lauderdale. The tournament got the full backing of USA Cricket and was also sanctioned by the International Cricket Council.(ICC). This ensured that international players would have taken part and a total of 63 players from around the world participated. Twelve teams took part…

By VINODE MAMCHAN Shayan Jahangir was brilliant in the 2022 US Open T20 tournament and was presented with a gift of land by president of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Mahammad Qureshi after he was named tournament MVP. The right hander was superb during the tournament and ended with the most runs. He was also skipper of the Stallions X team as his led them to the title with a crushing victory over Dallas All Stars. Jahangir was the leading run scorer at the tournament and scored a magnificent 79 not…

By VINODE MAMCHAN The X-factor came in the form of skipper Shayan Jahangir as his led the Stallions X to the title at the coveted 14th edition of the US Open T20 tournament at the Central Broward Regional Park in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday. Jahangir was the leading run scorer at the tournament and scored a magnificent 79 not out in the finals that took his team to the title and the US$100,000 first prize. Batting first, Stallions X made a wonderful 201/4 off their 20 overs on a beautiful batting…

y VINODE MAMCHAN With International Cricket Council (ICC) sanction out of the way, the world is coming to play at the 2022 US Open T20 tournament which is carded for December 5 to 13 at the Central Broward Regional Park in Fort Lauderdale. At the final hour the ICC has granted Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) sanction for the tournament which means that cricket boards all over the world have been notified and they will be granting their players No Objection Certificates (NOC) to come and play. This year 12 teams…

Owner of the Tampa Tigers Prahalad Madabhushi has heaped praises on chairman of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Mahammad Qureshi, calling him the greatest ever cricket administrator in the history of US cricket. Madabhushi will be leading the Tampa Tigers at the 2022 Edition of the US Open T20 and in an interview on MaqTv he stated that Qureshi as an administrator has done the most for the development of cricket in the United States. “Maq has been the best cricket administrator we have ever had in the US. He has…

The anxiety leading up to the 14th edition of the US Open T20 tournament is no more as the International Cricket Council (ICC) has sanctioned the tournament with the backing of USA Cricket. Interim CEO of USA Cricket Vinay Bhimjiani wrote to chairman of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi indicating that USA Cricket has sanctioned the tournament and a note will be sent to the ICC. The application for sanction was made to the ICC by CCUSA and the ICC in turn communicated with USA Cricket in order to find out if they…

By VINODE MAMCHAN The Legends World Cup will be making the rounds around the world over the last few years. With the second edition of the tournament due to open on Friday at the Central Broward Regional Park, chairman of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Mahammad Qureshi has released news that the tournament will not be played in the United States from next year for a while. The West Indies won the first edition in 2021 and will be coming up against USA, Canada and India looking to repeat as champions.…

NASSAU/BAHAMAS – Chairman of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Mahammad Qureshi whilst on a family vacation came out of his cruise ship to pay a courtesy call on the president of the Bahamas Cricket Association Greg Taylor. Qureshi the long serving cricket administrator was driven around by Greg and taken to the country’s best cricket ground in the capital. Speaking about the visit the Fort Lauderdale businessman said: “I am happy that I got the chance to meet with Greg and was taken around by him. In conversations with him I…

A total of 12 teams will be taking part in this year’s US Open T20 Premier League tournament. This year promises to be the richest in the history of the league with over $150,000 in prize money and as a result a number of teams have been clamoring to get onboard. However, manager of the US Open T20 Asif Shams explained that only 12 could have been accommodated at this point. “We have been receiving requests to play from teams on a daily basis. We cannot possibly accommodate all teams…