USA Announced Squad For ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup Qualifer

USA Cricket today announced the 14-player squad to play in the Regional Americas ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The event is the final step in the qualification pathway to the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup scheduled for January-February 2022 in the West Indies.

The U19 Cricket World Cup has been a breeding ground for many current and former international players at ICC Full Member and Associate Member levels. Those players almost always point to the vital part that the event played in their growth as players. Even more so, nearly all current Full Members have captains in at least one format that are products of their national Under 19 team. Qualifying for the 2022 event, the first time since 2010, and especially in the West Indies, would be a considerable boost to the continued growth of the game in the United States by providing a clear focus for the USA’s junior and youth cricketers.

The Men’s Under 19 Selection Panel had a challenging task at the recent U19 Selection and Training Camp in the Bay Area to narrow down the previous 26-player National Training Group to the 14 players and four reserves. Performances at both the National Championships and the Camp were taken into account in addition to USA Cricket’s other performance criteria of attitude, fitness, and skills. As always, the Selection Panel will continue to monitor the performance of all players, even those who have missed out on selection, over coming months in local and domestic tournaments.

USA Cricket has made provisional plans for another training camp to be staged in Houston during the summer, which will be confirmed once the ICC has been able to provide greater certainty around the timing of the event.

USA Cricket will announce the Captain and Vice-Captain for the squad in due course.

USA Cricket U19 Men’s Head Coach, Kevin Darlington, said, “The squad selected is strong on all fronts, with batters who have performed at senior level, exciting young pace bowlers, a variety of spin options, and genuine all-rounders who can hold their place in the team in more than one skill area.

We have a very talented group of individual players, but as we all know, that is just part of the equation that makes a successful team. The proposed camp in Houston will allow us to work closely with the final group of players to develop the cohesion, culture, and spirit necessary to get through the Qualifier challenges that lie ahead. I’m looking forward to getting this group together again soon, so they can build on the relationships and partnerships that started to develop at the previous camp.”

The 14 players selected (plus four reserve players) in alphabetical order are: