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- The Road to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia sees seven Americas teams all set to compete for two qualifying spots
- The Americas Qualifier will be played between 7 and 14 November in Antigua with Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Panama and USA playing a single round-robin tournament
- The top two placed teams will go on to play in one of two Global T20 World Cup Qualifiers in 2022 with 2 teams qualifying from each of these 8 team events
Tomorrow in Antigua, the USA Men’s National Team begin their campaign to return to an ICC T20 World Cup Global Qualifier for the first time since 2015. A double-header of matches gets USA’s qualification campaign underway as they seek one of the two places available from the Americas leg of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Regional Qualifiers.
Willow TV and USA Cricket are pleased to announce that all of Team USA’s matches from Antigua will be broadcast live on Willow.tv (Website + App) across North America.
Coverage of the event will be produced by CricClubs, who will use their live streaming expertise to make each match available to view live on FanCode in the Indian sub-continent and on ICC.tv in the rest of the world. In total, there will be 21 Men’s T20 Internationals live streamed during the event which will all be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium and Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua.
Team USA Men’s Head Coach, J Arun Kumar, said, ”We’ve almost got a full squad available to go in at full strength for these critical qualifiers. Everyone in the squad knows the role that we are looking for them to play, and they enter the event well prepared in good form. The potential in this group of players is really fantastic, and we’re ready to do well here, and also to go on to bigger and better things in the future of this format.”
The Team USA Squad is led by the new captain who was recently named for the T20I format with Monank Patel set to lead USA for the first time as USA get their campaign at the Coolidge Cricket Ground. USA starts with a double header on day one, with the challenge of Belize beginning at 9am for USA, and then taking on Panama in the afternoon game at 1pm.
Team USA Squad
Monank Patel (Captain)
Aaron Jones (Vice-Captain)
Ali Khan
Elmore Hutchinson
Gajanand Singh
Ian Holland
Jaskaran Malhotra
Karima Gore
Nisarg Patel
Rusty Theron
Saurabh Netravalkar
Steven Taylor
Trinson Carmichael
Xavier Marshall
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier fixtures:
Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (SVG) and Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG) – local start times in EST.
7 November 2021 – USA v Belize 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Bahamas v Canada 9am Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG); USA v Panama 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG);
8 November 2021 – Belize v Canada 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Argentina v Bahamas 9am at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG); Belize v Panama 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); USA v Bermuda 1pm at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG);
9 November 2021 – Rest/Reserve
10 November 2021 – Bermuda v Bahamas 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Belize v Argentina 9am at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG); USA v Canada 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Argentina v Panama 1pm at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG)
11 November 2021 – Bermuda v Canada 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Belize v Bahamas 9am at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG); Bermuda v Panama 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); USA v Argentina 1pm at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG);
12 November 2021 – Rest/Reserve
13 November 2021 – USA v Bahamas 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Belize v Bermuda 9am at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG); Bahamas v Panama 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Argentina v Canada at 1pm at Sir Viv Richards Stadium (SVG)
14 November 2021 – Canada v Panama 9am at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG); Argentina v Bermuda 1pm at Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG)
Name of Author: USA Cricket
USA Cricket (USAC) is the governing body for cricket in the United States, overseeing the national men’s, women’s, and youth teams. It also manages Major League Cricket, the premier domestic Twenty20 competition in the U.S.
