USA Cricket: All 27 teams complete initial roster selection following Minor League Cricket draft

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• Minor League Cricket Draft completed virtually on Friday, June 4 with seven separate regionalized drafts seeing teams select 16 player rosters
• 21 of the 27 Minor League teams drafted their rosters in regionalized drafts; the remaining 6 sides nominated their squads from exclusive zones
• All 16 player rosters are now subject to final approval from MiLC with some players still needing to prove residence and/or eligibility

Minor League Cricket is pleased to announce the initial 16 player rosters for all 27 teams for the inaugural season of Minor League Cricket (MiLC) in 2021. The Minor League Cricket Draft took place last Friday via video conference calls and was phased across 7 geographic zones. In total, more than 400 players have already been selected from the 2,000 players that were up for selection and they will be joined by a further 54 free agents to round out the full team rosters. 

All 27 sides have selected an initial provisional 16-man roster with the players broken down into the following categories:

• 1 x Wildcard professional 
• 2 x USA based professionals. 
• 3 x Priority domestic players
• 3 x Youth players (2 x Under 21 & 1 x Under 19)
• 7 x Domestic players

Over the course of the coming weeks building up to the start of the MiLC season on Saturday, July 31, 2021, all 27 teams may also fill 2 x Free Agent positions. These positions can be selected by teams at any point up until halfway through the regular season and may come from the full list of players across the country. There are no geographic restrictions on Free Agents, but it is important to note that Free Agents must have registered and participated in the main draft to be eligible.  

Minor League Cricket will need to formally approve all players named, as the roster listings for all 27 teams are subject to verification from MiLC to confirm all selected players fulfill the residence and/or eligibility requirements.

Many of the Team USA Men’s National Training Group have already been selected in these initial rosters, and the inaugural MiLC season will provide a crucial return to action for many of the best players across the United States. Minor League Cricket is the only nationwide tournament involving the best male players playing against each other at the best available facilities and forms a critical part of the evolving USA Cricket domestic cricket structure and pathway. The primary aim of the tournament is to give a platform and opportunity for the best cricketers in America to showcase their abilities at a national level, and a hugely exciting first season is in store for all 27 teams.

All 27 teams have now already begun preparations for the season’s matches with several beginning training together this week. MiLC and USA Cricket would like to congratulate all the teams on completing their initial selections and wish all of the selected players well as they begin the build-up to the historic first full season of Minor League Cricket.

TEAMS AND CONFERENCES

The full list of all competing 27 teams and their conference breakdown is as follows:

Eastern Conference
Home City / Region	Team Name
Boston	New England Eagles
New Jersey	New Jersey Somerset Cavaliers Cricket Club
New Jersey	New Jersey Stallions
New York	Empire State Titans
New York	Manhattan Yorkers
Philadelphia	The Philadelphians
Washington DC	DC Hawks
Western Conference
Home City / Region	Team Name
SF Bay Area	Silicon Valley Strikers
SF Bay Area	Bay Blazers
Los Angeles	Hollywood Master Blasters
Los Angeles	SoCal Lashings
Sacramento	Golden State Grizzlies
San Diego	San Diego Surf Riders
Seattle	Seattle Thunderbolts
Central Conference
Home City	Team Name
Austin	Austin Athletics
Chicago	Chicago Blasters
Chicago	Chicago Catchers
Dallas	Irving Mustangs
Houston	Houston Hurricanes
Detroit	Michigan Cricket Stars
St. Louis	St. Louis Americans
Southern Conference
Home City	Team Name
Atlanta	Atlanta Fire
Atlanta	Atlanta Param Veers
Ft. Lauderdale	Ft. Lauderdale Lions
Miami	Florida Beamers
Morrisville	Morrisville Cardinals
Orlando	Orlando Galaxy

PROVISIONAL SQUADS IN FULL

To see infographics of all 27 roster selections, please see below to view a gallery of all teams. The full list of player selections is also below.

EASTERN DIVISION

New England Eagles:

• Assad Fudadin
• Akshay Homraj
• Derone Davis
• Bruce Blackwood
• Emanuel Seecharran
• Aryan Joshi
• Chaitanya Parwal
• Zeshan Muhammad
• Rohit Maryada
• Nikhil Netaji Reddy
• Karanjit Singh
• Harshil Patel
• Muhammad Bilal
• Terrence Madramootoo
• Two (2) TBA Marquee players

New Jersey Somerset Cavaliers:

• Chandrapaul Hemraj
• Xavier Marshall
• Kennar Lewis
• Syed Abdullah
• Shawn Findlay
• Karima Gore
• Ahmed Labib
• Deep Joshi
• Yasir Mohammad
• Ruvindu Gunasekera
• Tristann Coleman
• Noman Iftikhar
• Juanoy Drysdale
• Muhammad Asad Ghous
• Umair Ali
• Mohammad Chaudhry

New Jersey Stallions:

• Justin Dill
• Aaditya Varadharajan
• Jasdeep Singh
• Dominique Rikhi
• Jon-Ross Campbell
• Raymond Ramrattan
• Anirudh Immanuel
• Saiteja Mukkamalla
• Dilon Heyliger
• Sachin Mylavarapu
• Hiren Patel
• Stephen Wiig
• Preet Shah
• Raghavender Tirunahari
• Praneeth Nemarugommula
• One (1) TBA Wildcard player

Manhattan Yorkers:

• Andre Mccarthy
• Smit Patel
• Raj Rocky Nannan
• Gajanand Singh
• Savan Patel
• Manoj Acharya
• Aman Patel
• Ved Churiwalla
• Surya Thurumella
• Raj Bhavsar
• Poojan Mody
• Kevin Shah
• Deveshwari Prashad
• Alex Amerstedam
• Raj Patel
• Vivek Ravichandran

DC Hawks:

• Dane Piedt
• Sunny Sohal
• Adil Bhatti
• Franklin Clement
• Ishan Sharma
• Rasesh Behera
• Ritwik Behera
• Raviteja Reddy
• Gourav Bajaj
• Chris Vantull
• Waleed Karimullah
• Abdul Jabar Mohammed
• Abdullah Gazhi
• Talal Zia
• Two (2) TBA Marquee players

The Philadelphians:

• Milind Kumar
• Carmi le Roux
• Derick Narine
• Francis Mendonca
• Chiranshu Bhatia
• Abhayjit Khangura
• Pranav Rao
• Aditya Sharma
• Oraine Williams
• Usman Ashraf
• Muneshwar Chris Patandin
• Looknauth Chinkoo
• Kunal Baride
• Yashwant Balaji
• Muhammad Shah
• One (1) TBA Wildcard player

Empire State Titans:

• Trevon Griffith
• Navin Stewart
• Jaladh Dua
• Bhaskar Yadram
• Damion Jacobs
• Mohamed Shaw
• Taahaa Warraich
• Tabib Ahmed
• Trinson Carmichael
• Javein Thomas
• Akeem Dodson
• Tahmid Ahmed
• Robin Choudhry
• Hemendra Ramdihal
• Kelvin Shewprasad
• One (1) TBA Marquee Player

SOUTHERN DIVISION:

Atlanta Fire:

• Rahkeem Cornwall
• Corne Dry
• Malmeege Aponso
• Ricardo Powell
• Aaron Jones
• Steven Taylor
• Akhilesh Reddy Bodugum
• Amrut Pore
• Ateendra Subramanian
• Rishi Bhardwaj
• Sagar Patel
• Jaydeep Desai
• Shaquille Forbes
• Vasu Vegi
• Ankit Hirani
• Ridwan Palash

Atlanta Param Veers:

• Darpankumar Patel
• Evroy Dyer
• Zain Sayed
• Sahil Charania
• Param Patel
• Santosh Reddy
• Dhruv Patel
• Heer Patel
• Azeem Charania
• Garth Garvey
• Neive McNally
• Mark Parchment
• Coi Thompson
• Vinothkumar Kandaswamy
• Ahsan Plummer
• One (1) TBA Wildcard player

Ft. Lauderdale Lions:

• Rayad Emrit
• Timothy Surujbally
• Kyle Phillip
• Omari Williams
• Ricky Nayar
• Roy Silva
• Pradeep Ravi
• Atul Iyer
• Elton Tucker Jr
• Herlando Johnson
• Isuru Kuruwitage
• Gavin Wallace
• Honey Gori
• Iain Beverley
• Anirban Majumdar
• Akshay Kumar Patel

Orlando Galaxy:

• Timroy Allen
• Amahl Nathaniel
• Babar Arshad
• Dunae Nathaniel
• Asghar Sheikh
• Christian Herrera
• Deep Patel
• Matthew Comerie
• Bhaskaradipan Gnanasakthi
• Marlon Bharath
• Adrian Thompson
• Kemar Jarrett
• Ramone Medwinter
• Conroy Jacobs
• Roohit Dutchin
• Shabaka Mathlin

Florida Beamers:

• Monank Patel
• Zishawn Qureshi
• Rajesh Sharma
• Suneel Kumar
• Prit Patel
• Swaril Parikh
• Fuad Azadi
• Sarnam Patel
• Akshar Patel
• Vignesh Rg
• Leslie Daniel Raj
• Manav Patel
• Rishikesh Neupane
• Ammar Malik
• Hiteshkumar Patel
• Akash Joshi

Morrisville Cardinals:

• Ryan Wiggins
• Jaskaran Malhotra
• Siva Kumar Duvvarapu
• Sanjay Stanley
• Karthikeya Jagadish
• Abhiram Bolisetty
• Aryan Shah
• Rohan Phadke
• Conrad Lotz
• Kiran Saravanakumar
• Mayur Choudhary
• Kunal Sehgal
• Gautham Ravindran
• Aditya Padala
• Mohammed Abdulla
• One (1) TBA Wildcard Player

WESTERN DIVISION:

Silicon Valley Strikers:

• Shehan Jayasuriya
• Saurabh Netravalker
• Narsingh Deonarine
• Srinivas Raghavan
• Abhishek Paradkar
• Rahul Jariwala
• Dev Thadani
• Pranay Suri
• Anshul Pratap Singh
• Gary Graham
• Saurabh Verma
• Dilpreet Billing
• Arshpreet Sidhu
• Rushil Ugarkar
• Two (2) TBA Players (1 Wildcard, 1 Marquee)

East Bay Blazers:

• David White
• Sujith Gowda
• Rusty Theron
• Josh Dascombe
• Mario Rampersaud
• Sanjay Krishnamurthi
• Nihal Desai
• Rohan Posanipally
• Skanda Rohit Sharma
• Shiva Vashishat
• Srinivasan Mohan
• Kuldeep Singh
• David Bunn
• Ruchir Joshi
• Nawaz Khan
• One (1) TBA Wildcard player 

Golden State Grizzlies:

• Hammad Azam
• Sami Aslam
• Zia Muhammad Shahzad
• Shivam Mishra
• Malik Junaid
• Neeraj Goel
• Saideep Ganesh
• Vatsal Vaghela
• Aditya Srinivas
• Mohit Nataraj
• Abbas Jaffri
• Sheryar Khan
• Asad Khan
• Abhi Singh
• Bhavesh Jain
• Samson Bhatti

Hollywood Master Blasters:

• Amitoze Singh
• Cody Chetty
• Shehan Fernando
• Nisarg Patel
• Karan Viradiya
• Khalid Zadran
• Samarth Jayadev
• Ajay Immadi
• Kanishka Chaugai
• Venukalyan Madireddy
• Dhyan Ranatunga
• Sahaj Patel
• Jignesh Patel
• Pukar Patel
• Basant Regmi
• One (1) TBA U21 Player

SoCal Lashings:

• Marcus Stewart
• Elmore Hutchinson
• Hammad Shahid
• Peter Vittachi
• Gayan Fernando
• Vedant Jain
• Taha Jamal
• Rayaan Bhagani
• Aakashveer Saini
• Harpreet Singh
• Sukhwant Sekhon
• Shamsher Singh
• Iftekhar Ahmed
• Deepak Gosain
• Abhimanyu Rajp
• Rajveer S Khosa

San Diego Surfriders:

• Siddarth Matani
• Marty Kain
• Brynley Richards
• Mrunal Patel
• Timil Patel
• Ravi Timbawala
• Adnesh Tondale
• Ayan Desai
• Devam Shrivatsava
• Jaskarandeep Buttar
• Rajdeep Darbar
• Sri Krishna
• Jaideep Reddy
• Muhammad Sadiq
• Zubair Murad
• Abhinay Vanipally

Seattle Thunderbolts:

• Harmeet Singh
• Andries Gous
• Shadley Van Schalkwyk
• Prajith Mudi
• Deepak Rajendran
• Karan Rao
• Rishab Mohan
• Sahil Kancherla
• Advaith Bulusu
• Manu Jacob
• Varun Potlapally
• Nital Vasavada
• Manoj Panwar
• Anirudh Srinivas
• Ujjawal Patel
• AvdeshKumar Rai

CENTRAL DIVISION:

Austin Athletics:

• Nitish Kumar
• Awais Zia
• Shayan Jhangir
• Jannisar Khan
• Sidhesh Pathare
• Hisham Ali
• Safiullah Faheem
• Laksh Parikh
• Hamza Bangash
• Hamza Khalid
• Jay Desai
• Ahmed Butt
• Jagrit Raj
• Awais Mubarak
• Preyas Bhakta
• One (1) TBA Wildcard player

Irving Mustangs:

• Waqas Saleem
• Corey Anderson
• Rayyankhan Pathan
• Syed Najaf Shah
• Nosthush Kenjige
• Adnan Haroon
• Ali Sheikh
• Rehman Dar
• Soorya Selvakumar
• Abhiram Valisammagari
• Ninad Nimbalkar
• Petson Mathews
• Ajay Masand
• Mihir Cherukupalli
• Nital Patel
• Rohan Manekar

Houston Hurricanes:

• Zia Ul Haq
• Rameez Raja
• Willem Ludick
• Usman Rafiq
• Ali Samad
• Saqlain Haider
• Majjid Zubair
• Karthik Gattepalli
• Rishi Ramesh
• Rana Ali
• Naseer Jamali
• Sushant Modani
• Haris Qureshi
• Waleed Ahmed
• Hrrit Hinge
• Ahsan Shah

Chicago Blasters:

• Mohammed Asaduddin
• Shaheer Hassan
• Fahad Babar
• Najam Iqbal
• Hasan Bemat
• Ashhar Mehdi
• Mohit Patel
• Sachin Veereaswamy
• Mittansh Nithiyanandam
• Hunain Amin
• Amyn Gilani
• Sai Charith Daggupati(sh)
• Datta Prakash  Y
• Donieke Perrin
• Talha Mohsin
• Anirudh Jonnavitula

Chicago Catchers:

• Rizwan Cheema
• Karan Kumar
• Saquib Chowdhury
• Sikander Soleja
• Arjun Kumar
• Manan Patel
• Abhyudaya Garg
• Tejas Visal
• Kevin Philip
• Mustafa Sameer Syed
• Ankush Agrawal
• Ahmadullah Adil
• Raid Ally
• Pankaj Kampli
• Sarwar Ghori
• Sneh Patel

Michigan Cricket Stars:

• Abdulahad Malik
• Calvin Savage
• Saad Ali
• Shaker Ahmed
• Ryan Scott
• Avier Christian
• Raewin Senior
• Ruhan Swar
• Zakiullah Sultani
• Arjun Ajbani
• Nikhil Kanchan
• Ferhan Ali
• Vraj Patel
• Azher Ali Syed
• Mahfuzur Rahman
• Harish Yalamanchili

St. Louis Americans:

• Siddharth Trivedi
• Jacobus Pienaar
• Unnikrishnan GP
• Hemant Mandle
• Luke Schofield
• Dhruv Duggal
• Joshua Kind
• Paras Marwaha
• Kaustubh Sriperumbudoor
• Munn Patel
• Asheesh Singh
• Yashodhan Mahajan
• Siddharth Saladi
• Sagar Thakkar
• Surjit Singh
• Murali Basupalli

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