USA Cricket is pleased to announce the establishment of Men’s Senior and Youth Zonal Training Groups for all six of the USA Cricket Zones.
This follows a significant amount of work undertaken over recent months by the Zonal Selection Panels to facilitate the selection of more than 275 players across all 12 of the Zonal Training Groups announced today. All of the players recently named in the 44-player National Men’s Training Group, except those currently based overseas, are also named within their respective Zonal Training Groups.
Following the completion of 11 of the 14 scheduled Men’s Senior and Youth Zonal Trials, and supported by all other available performance data and knowledge, the Training Groups announced today are very much a starting point, and the Zonal Selection Panels and USA Cricket coaching staff will work with and closely monitor the progress of all of these Training Groups on a regular basis. As appropriate, the Selection Panels may add players to, or remove players from, their relevant Zonal Training Groups based on their ongoing skill development, performance, fitness, and attitude, and players may also graduate from a Zonal Training Group to the National Training Group where appropriate.
The Zonal Training Groups will give players the opportunity to train together in regionalized hubs and develop all aspects of their game with USA Cricket support staff and structures. These are only the initial Training Groups and there will be the opportunity for further players to progress into the groups, where justified, as the national system continues to evolve and support the increased monitoring of performances across local leagues and other domestic cricket (including a full Minor League Cricket competition) during what is hoped to be a full calendar of cricket in 2021.
Former Team USA Men’s National Team Captain, Steve Massiah, who is part of the East Zone Men’s Selection Panel, and the National Men’s Youth Selection Panel, said, “The naming of the Zonal Training Groups for Men and Men’s Youth is a critically important part in the further development of the USA Cricket domestic cricket structure and will provide another clear step in the pathway for the next generation of Team USA players. The players in these Training Groups will no doubt make up the majority of the players who will play in the 2021 National Championships. I would like to congratulate all of the players named, and wish everyone the best for their training ahead of the 2021 season.”
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USA Men’s Youth Coach, Kevin Darlington said, “I am really pleased with the naming of our six Youth Zonal Training Groups at this time. Training together within the regionalized hubs will give all of the boys a good head-start in improving their skill and fitness levels ahead of what is a huge year for our Under 19 Group. We have a clear target and focus on winning a place at the Under 19 Cricket World Cup in 2022, through the qualifier on home-soil in August, and I can’t wait to get going with all of our Zones.”
USA Cricket Operations Director, Richard Done added, “We are building better pathways and more regular training opportunities than ever before for cricketers of ability in the USA. Our Zonal training groups, in combination with the National Men’s and Women’s, and Women’s Youth Training Groups, will involve the best 350 cricketers in the United States, and they will be able to train together in smaller regionalized hubs across the country. We acknowledge that 2020 was a challenging year and that there may be players around the country who didn’t get an opportunity needed to impress the selectors, and, for that reason, these training groups are a baseline only and we will add to them as and when other players are identified. We are committed to bringing the very best of our talented players together more often at a zonal level and, ultimately, to giving them the opportunities they need to compete at higher levels domestically and challenge for places in USA Cricket National Teams at Men’s, Women’s and Youth levels.”
Men’s Zonal Training Groups 2021
| East Zone Men’s | East Zone Youth |
| Syed Abdullah | Safwan Ahmed |
| Usman Ashraf | Rahi Bhatia |
| Barrington Bartley | Sumanth Bushap |
| Bruce Blackwood | Asad Chaudry |
| Trinson Carmichael | Muhammad Ans Chaudry |
| Derone Davis | Mohammad Foysal Rabbi |
| Akeem Dodson | Salman Haider |
| Jaunoy Drysdale | Vishalpranay Idapalapati |
| Jaladh Dua | Rakesh Mangru |
| Karan Ganesh | Chaitanya Parwal |
| Karima Gore | Dereck Persaud |
| Akshay Homraj | Naveer Ramsarran |
| Damion Jacobs | Abdur Rehman |
| Aaron Jones | James Samuel |
| Zamal Khan | Mohamed Shaw |
| Reynard Leveridge | Videep Soni |
| Xavier Marshall | Pranav Verma |
| Derick Narine | Harsh Wadhwa |
| Dominique Rikhi | Taahaa Warraich |
| Waseem Shahzehd | Ansaar Yasim |
| Nazmul Siddique | Muhammad Usman Yousaf |
| Gajanand Singh | Muhammad Yousuf |
| Steven Taylor | Rahimullah Zadran |
| Javein Thomas | |
| Randall Wilson |
ZONAL TRAINING GROUPS?
A look at the Men's Senior & Youth Training Groups for the first two Zones with all the names for the East Zone and the Mid-Atlantic Zone
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| Mid-Atlantic Zone Men’s | Mid-Atlantic Zone Youth |
| Manoj Acharya | Imran Ali |
| Waqar Ahmad | Ritwik Behera |
| Rohan Arvindh | Adithya Bharadwaj |
| Gourav Bajaj | Dhruv Chaturvedi |
| Rasesh Behera | Ved Churiwalla |
| Chiru Bhatia | Rishi Jindal |
| Adil Bhatti | Arvind Kalaivanan |
| Raj Bhavsar | Vishrut Kannan |
| Abdullah Ghazi | Shuja Khan |
| Muhammed Ghous | Nitish Mahesh |
| Noman Iftikhar | Varun Mantha |
| Rocy-Tohidul Islam | Yasir Mohammad |
| Sahil Kapoor | Saiteja Mukkamalla |
| Jaishnav Kohli | Dev F. Patel |
| Abdul Jabbar Mohammed | Pranav Rao |
| Vivek Narayan | Shapnil Roy |
| Monank Patel | Aditya Sharma |
| Aman Patel | Ishan Sharma |
| Savan Patel | Shivoy Sharma |
| Tirth Patel | Shravan Sudhir |
| Raymond Ramrattan | Shuaib Syed |
| Gauranshu Sharma | Akhil Thuremella |
| Jasdeep Singh | |
| Sunny Sohal |
| South Zone Men’s | South Zone Youth |
| Camilus Alexander | Jawad Ahmed |
| Nikhil Ankolkar | Nayan Bhogaraju |
| Iain Beverly | Abhiram Bolisetty |
| Rishi Bhardwaj | Bhaskaradipan Gnanasakthi |
| Azeem Charania | Aditya Gupta |
| Sahil Charania | Akul Gupta |
| Mayur Chaudry | Varun Gupta |
| Andre Dwyer | Danush Kaveripakam |
| Evroy Dyer | Adam Khan |
| Garth Garvey | Rishi Pandey |
| Karthikeya Jagadish | Heer Patel |
| Jaskaran Malhotra | Rohan Phadke |
| Dean Morgan | Pranavh Pradeep |
| Dunae Nathaniel | Gautham Ravindran |
| Mark Parchment | Aryan Shah |
| Darpankumar Patel | Jithen Shriyan |
| Sagar Patel | Ateendra Subhramanian |
| William Perkins | Elton Tucker Jr. |
| Kyle Phillip | Viraj Vaghela |
| Kunal Sehgal | Samanyu Vemuri |
| Asghar Sheikh | Yash Verma |
| Roy Silva | Abhigna Vijjapurapu |
| Sanjay Stanley | |
| Mujtaba Tariq |
ZONAL TRAINING GROUPS?
Here's the full selections for the next four Training Groups with the Men's Senior & Youth Training Groups covering the next two Zones with the South Zone and the Midwest Zone
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| Midwest Zone Men’s | Midwest Zone Youth |
| Jubel Ahmed | Fayazulhaq Aftab |
| Shakeer Ahmed | Atharva Awasthi |
| Ferhan Ali | Shreyas Chandragiri |
| Fahad Babar | Krish Desai |
| Sampath Reddy Baraji | Taine Dry |
| Hasan Bemat | Akshat Gupta |
| Sai Charith Daggupati | Arnav Jhamb |
| Dhruv Duggal | Arya Khanna |
| Shaheer Hassan | Yash Kukreja |
| Najam Iqbal | Shaunak Manjure |
| Anirudh Jonnavitula | Bhavya Mehta |
| Nikhil Kanchan | Mohit Patel |
| Mohammed Kashem | Munn Patel |
| Muhammad Ali Khan | Parth Patel |
| Joshua Kind | Kevin Philip |
| Karan Kumar | Shounak Sawant |
| Talha Mohsin | Siddhant Shah |
| Tamim Oni | Anwar Ali Shinwari |
| Mohit Patel | Kausthubh Sriperumbudoor |
| Vraj Patel | Tejas Vishal |
| Santosh Ramasamy | |
| Luke Schofield | |
| Koti Vanga | |
| Chandradat Veerasammy | |
| Tejas Vishal | |
| Ankit Vora |
| South West Zone Men’s | South West Zone Youth |
| Shams Arefeen | Arir Ali |
| Sachin Asokan | Ahan Bhakare |
| Hamza Bangash | Mihir Cherukupalli |
| Ahmed Butt | Abhinav Choudhary |
| Kartik Gattepalli | Rehman Dar |
| Eshwar Gullapalli | Hrrit Hinge |
| Adnan Haroon | Adithya Karthikeyan |
| Shayan Jahangir | Prem Kumar |
| Nosthush Kenjige | Tanaf Wasie Mahumad |
| Hamza Khalid | Sahibullah Mohammad Gulab |
| Haris Latif | Aarin Nadkarni |
| Sushant Modani | Pranav Narsetty |
| Awais Mubarak | Laksh Parikh |
| Prajith Mudi | Rishab Patil |
| Shuja Naqvi | Abhimanyu Poswal |
| Jay Pathak | Rishi Ramesh |
| Sidhesh Pathare | Mark Sagayababu |
| Usman Rafiq | Josh Saripella |
| Hassan Rashid | Shreyan Satheesh |
| Ali Samad | Soorya Selvakumar |
| Majid Zubair | Arya Shah |
| Ali Sheikh | |
| Abhinav Sikharam | |
| Abhiram Valisammagari |
ZONAL TRAINING GROUPS?
And here are the final four Training Groups, of the 12 announced in total today, with the Men's Senior & Youth Training Groups for the South West Zone and the West Zone!
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| West Zone Men’s | West Zone Youth |
| Ifthikar Ahmed | Vinay Baid |
| Kanishka Chaugai | Rayaan Bhagani |
| Josh Dascombe | Kanish Bhalla |
| Narsingh Deonarine | Rohith Bharanidharan |
| Gayan Fernando | Samson Bhatti |
| Saideep Ganesh | Andrew Daluwatte |
| Neeraj Goel | Ayan Desai |
| Elmore Hutchinson | Nihal Desai |
| Naseer Jamali | Anish Deshpande |
| Marty Kain | Ajay Immadi |
| Sakthi Karimanal | Aarnav Iyer |
| Sanjay Krishnamurthi | Rahul Jariwala |
| Siddharth Matani | Sahil Kancherla |
| Saurabh Netravalkar | Rajveer Khosa |
| Mrunal Patel | Sanjay Krishnamurthi |
| Nisarg Patel | Trishul Manoj |
| Timil Patel | Sanat Misra |
| Srinivas Raghavan | Rishab Mohan |
| Abhimanyu Rajp | Ritvik Mohindru |
| Saqib Saleem | Surya Narayanan |
| Pranay Suri | Manav Nayak |
| Rusty Theron | Shamith Pasula |
| Ravi Timbawala | Rohan Posanipally |
| Vatsal Vaghela | Skanda Rohit Sharma |
| Karan Viradiya | Devam Shrivastava |
| Peter Vittachi | Rajat Sood |
| Shashank Vittaladevaram | Aditya Srinivas |
| Zakiullah Sultani | |
| Dev Thadani |
