United States of America Cricket Association

United States of America Cricket Association
Logo of USACA
Formation	1965
Headquarters	Lenox Avenue, Miami Beach, USA
Membership	International Cricket Council
CEO	Donald Lockerbie
Website	Official Website

The United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in the United States. USACA sponsors the United States cricket team that is recognized by the International Cricket Council, and has been an associate member of that body since 1965.

USACA administers "traditional" cricket, unrelated to Pro Cricket, a private body which established a now-defunct league in 2004.

USACA announced in July 2009 it was inviting proposals from prospective sponsors, broadcasters and game development partners to help it launch the American Premier League, an Indian Premier League style Twenty20 league tournament.

In July 2006 a National Junior Cricket Tournament, hosted by the California Cricket Academy (CCA), was one of the first such tournaments sponsored by the USACA.^[1][2] A similar tournament run by the USACA and the CCA was held in June 2007.^[3] Prior to 2006, junior cricket events had been administered by other organizations such as Major League Cricket.^[2][4][5]

The board announced in December 2010 it had signed a $10 million dollar deal with New Zealand Cricket and several strategic investors are stakeholders, creating a new body called Cricket Holdings America to manage all commercial rights for cricket in USA, including Twenty20 rights, in perpetuity ^[6]

In January 2011, USACA was awarded the top prize in the Junior Participation Initiative category by the ICC America's region in the 2010 Pepsi ICC Development Programme Awards for the United States Youth Cricket Association's Schools Program.^[7][8]

The inaugural USACA Men's Twenty20 Championship will be held in Dallas in June 2011.^[9] The national team will compete in the ICC Americas Championship Division One Twenty20 in July 2011.^[9] The top three countries in the championship will earn a place in the World Twenty20 qualifier.

See also

• Cricket in the United States
• United States Youth Cricket Association
• Major League Cricket
• NYPD Cricket League
• United States national cricket team#Status from 1965

References

1. ^ Chandran, Rohan (July 14, 2006). "Plenty stars in the making". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/usa/content/story/253492.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Das, Deb K. (July 14, 2006). "Mixed reaction to California tournament". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/usa/content/story/252220.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
3. ^ Das, Deb K. (June 21, 2007). "USA looks to the next generation". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/usa/content/story/298934.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
4. ^ Das, Deb K. (July 26, 2007). "The future is bright thanks to US youngsters". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/303702.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. 
5. ^ Das, Deb K. (December 26, 2004). "USA juniors off to Trinidad & Tobago". Cricinfo. http://www.cricinfo.com/usa/content/story/136226.html. Retrieved 2009-07-23. "Part of the problem is that the USA Cricket Academy, over the past five years, has been the only US organization that has conducted independent international tours for US cricketers--USACA tours have taken place mostly when the ICC has put up all or most of the cash." 
6. ^ "USA Cricket inks historic commercial deal with New Zealand Cricket". ESPN Cricinfo. 2010-12-18. http://www.dreamcricket.com/dreamcricket/news.hspl?nid=15370&ntid=4. 
7. ^ "USA Wins Pepsi ICC "Junior Participation Initiative" Award". USACA. http://usaca.org/node/511. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 
8. ^ "US Youth Cricket Association named Best Junior Participation Initiative by ICC Americas". DreamCricket. http://community.dreamcricket.com/community/blogs/usa_cricketer/archive/2011/01/26/us-youth-cricket-association-named-best-junior-participation-initiative-by-icc-americas.aspx. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 
9. ^ ^{a b} "Two Texans on U.S. national team". ESPN. 2011-03-16. http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/columns/story?id=6217052. 

External links

• Official site of the United States of America Cricket Association

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