Category: USA Cricket

December 18, 2019 marked an exciting occasion for CCUSA as the organization celebrated its 20 years anniversary with a banquet dinner featuring VIP guests. The event was held at the Double Tree, Hilton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Interestingly, the following day CCUSA kicked off with the 11th edition of its highly renowned US Open T-20 cricket tournament officially sanctioned by the ICC and attended by Mr. Andrew, the anticorruption officer at the ICC. The evening started with the vocals of highly talented singer: Bianca Sperduti who entertained the audience with…

The Kumar Rampat Cricket Academy (KRCA) did T&T proud after they won the 2019 Under-17 US Open T20 title at the Central Broward Regional Stadium in Fort Lauderdale on Monday. They defeated the Ontario Reds, Canada to wrest the trophy from them. The Ontario Reds were the U-17 Champions in the 2018 US Open. The tournament is an eleven year old one organized by Maq Qureshi to provide a platform for cricket lovers of North America. The tournament has grown to the point of having teams from all over the…

All-rounder Zishawn Qureshi was in fine form on day two of the 2019 US Open T20 tournament with both bat and ball Playing at the Maq cricket stadium in Boca he got runs and took wickets leading his team to two victories. Florida International batting first made 76/6 in their 10 overs with Qureshi taking 2/18. Multan in reply scored 77/2 off 5.5 over with Qureshi getting 21 off 11 balls with four fours and Zishawn Ashraf 30 off 12 with two fours and two sixes. In the second game…

LAUDERHILL/USA – With just hours to go before the start of the 2019 US Open T20 tournament officials are reporting that all is well and ready to go. Wednesday evening tournament director Shah Zafar met with the captains from the teams to bring them up to scratch as far as the regulations are concerned to ensure that the tournament runs off smoothly. Also on hand was a representative from the International Cricket Council ICC who also spoke to the players setting out the guidelines for a corruption free tournament. Muhammad…

MARGATE/FL – USA: Cricket Council USA will celebrate 20 years of cricket promotions in the United States, next Wednesday with a gala banquet dinner at the Hilton Double Tree Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. CCUSA came about after a conversation between friends Mahammad Qureshi and Amin Markatia. They both came from Pakistan many decades ago and after studying in the US, they settled and started to play cricket in South Florida. This was not enough for these two guys who were very fond of the sport. They decided to start promoting…

ARGATE/FL – USA: The US Open T20 tournament is the talk of the town these days as the 11th edition of the popular tournament approaches. Chairman of CCUSA, Mahammad Qureshi says that all is coming into place nicely. “We are very happy with the work done so far in terms of preparations for this tournament. We have a number of teams that are already putting their squads together and looking to get the best personnel on board so that they have a good chance at winning the trophy and US$50,000…

Along with staging numerous cricket tournaments in 2012 as depicted from the summary below, one of the main highlights of 2012 was the inclusion of Shoaib Akhtar in US Open T-20 Cricket Tournament. Shoaib Akhtar hails from Pakistan. He is the fastest bowler in the world. He has played all formats of cricket representing his country Pakistan successfully in a 14 year long career that started in November 1997 in test format leading to debut for One Day Internationals three months later in the same year. Furthermore, CCUSA’s Chairman: MAQ…