National Youth Cricket League

09/11/2023

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USA Women's captain Sindhu Sriharsha and Player of the Match Ritu Singh talk after USA's 10-wicket win over Brazil on day five of the 2023 ICC Americas Women...

07/18/2023

MethodHub Presents Women’s T20 Championship in St. Charles, MO featuring some of the best Talents from the 4 Prominent Women’s Programs in the USA.

TCL
ACZ Women Fire
Loudoun Cubs
Atlanta War Eagles

7 T20 Games Per Team. An opportunity of a kind never seen before. Starting 27th July 2023.

04/25/2023

If I had a say in Governance of Youth and Women Cricket in the USA, I would first eliminate all those people from Governance Role who have clearly demonstrated over and over, to using their position to benefit their agenda or to put down their competition.

The number of boys and girls who drop out of cricket every year due to lack of accountability and lack of transparent grievance process is alarming.

Conflict of Interest is Not Rocket Science. The leadership has to just decide not to ignore it.

04/16/2023

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NWCL - St. Louis 2023 Open : Invitation to Register

T40 : Jul 22-25, 2023: Players Drafted from Registered Pool of Elite Players.
T20 : Jul 27-30, 2023: Open Team Registration. Last Date to Register 1st May 2023

02/17/2023

Hello Everyone -

We regret to inform the community that NYCL has decided to go dormant and not conduct any tournaments in 2023.

With the announcement of Junior Pathway by USA Cricket, the efforts of NYCL has unfortunately become redundant/duplicate.

The conceptualization of NYCL happened in 2013, and It was the first independent tournament of its kind, that laid the foundation of most of the other similar tournaments that have sprouted in years that followed.

Here are the people who began the journey in 2013.

Priya Singh - USYCA & ACF Board Member (Missouri)
Gopal Samanth - President EYCA (California)
Venu Palaparthi - DreamCricket (New Jersey)
Rajesh Uppalapati - Regional Youth Coordinator - USACA (North Carolina)

NYCL was also the first organization to include girls into its junior boys tournament, and let them compete a level lower (2 year exception) since 2015, which was the primary driver to grow the number of female participation 2014-2021. Many of those Junior female players are now part of the the USA Women's Cricket National Team.

NYCL started with 18 Teams in 2014, and in 2022 it had more than 225 Teams that registered. NYCL has demonstrated year after year growth, and it gained popularity mainly due to its transparency and inclusiveness.

Gopal Samanth and Priya Singh led NYCL in 2014 & 2015. When Gopal moved to UK in 2016, Priya continued to lead NYCL in 2016, 2017 & 2018. In 2019, she transitioned the leadership to Kannan Senthamarai, who served as NYCL Director 2019-2022.

Though many volunteers led the successful ex*****on of NYCL Year after Year, I want to Sincerely thank all the below leaders who captained the hosting of NYCL Tournaments in their respective regions over last 9 years.

2014 - Kuljit Singh Nijjar (Dallas)
2015 - Priya Singh (St. Louis) & Rajesh Uppalapati (NC)
2016 - Surya Saladi (Houston) & Charles Peterson (MN)
2017 - Gani Ganisshan (CT), Venu Palaparthi / Amar Shah (NJ)
2018 - Deependra Vaidya (CA)
2019 - Jana C (NC)
2020 - Jana C (NC)
2021 - Falgun Patel (MD)
2022 - Venky G (Dallas), Sunil Mehra (LA), Rance R. (OR), George Samuel(NY), Gani G (CT), Sridhar B (MD), Ajay Nayak/ Kannan S (PA), Dipak Singh (HOU)

NYCL Executive Team is signing off with best wishes for everyone involved with Junior Cricket in the USA. We will be exploring new opportunities to come back in near future, and potentially inspire more junior cricketers to succeed in their cricketing journey.

Thanks,

Ranjeet Singh
President - USYCA

01/02/2023

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year.

Welcome to 2023.

I know everyone is waiting on NYCL 2023 Announcement. As you know that USA Cricket Junior Steering Committee has put out a proposal for a Junior Pathway and we are waiting for its formal approval and announcement. It should come out in next couple weeks, hopefully.

NYCL 2023 will be in alignment with USA Cricket Junior Pathway and it will meant to supplement and strengthen the player’s journey towards USA Cricket National Tournaments.

With that said, 2023 will be very similar to 2022 with some standardizations.

1. All tournaments will be 30 overs format. This allows us to conduct two matches at a ground on the same day.
2. The tournament fee will be $850 per team ( based on last years experience).
3. Empower the zonal leadership with more responsibilities and control on managing regional tournaments.
4. Make a separate committee to handle the national championship and it’s planning and promotion.

More details will unfold over next couple weeks. If anyone is interested in leading the hosting of any age group in a zone please connect with me. We have 4 hosting opportunities in each zone : u11, u13, u15 and u17, and anyone can host 1 or 2 based on their comfort and abilities.

Our goal is to maximum collaboration, engagement and opportunities in each zone in 2023.

Ranjeet Singh
President - USYCA

08/06/2022

08/06/2022

QUCA wins NYCL 2022 - U17 Nationals by defeating SSCA in the Finals. 👏👏👏👏

08/04/2022

Some exciting moments captured during NYCL semis earlier today.

08/04/2022

NYCL 2022 - U17 Nationals : Semi Finals

“QUCA is in the U17 NYCL Finals after with a 1 run win in a heart-stopping semifinal that went to the very last ball. A truly fantastic effort in the field - ICUSA were well placed at 110 without a loss in 17, with their openers easily ticking off the the runs, without giving a single chance or taking any risk. But the QUCA boys continued to show great energy and self belief, ably led by Naveer. Harsha brought in the first wicket, then another and then three by sahir turned the game around. Supported by some fine wicket keeping by Jermey and some excellent catching and fielding, ICUSA were facing a steep target of 23 in the last 2 overs but it wasn't time to celebrate yet as one of their batters scored 16 runs in the 29th, leaving Naveer to defend just 7 in the last over. But the experience of the nail biters from the last 2 days helped the team stay calm and choked the opposition to win by one run.
Earlier, the the batters put in a good effort to set a target of 187. But with the strong foundation that Naveer and Kalash provided, it'd be fair to say that the target was about 25-30 runs too low for this smaller and a quicker outfield compared to the first game. A few overs with too many dot balls in the middle overs broke the momentum that was only partially recovered by some excellent batting by Adi towards the end.

Overall, a fine effort to get to the finals. What this team has shown is that teams don't get strong by just stacking themselves with superstar imported players; it gets strong by continuously playing together, supporting each other and learning together from each win and loss.”

08/02/2022

NYCL 2022 Nationals: Under 17

QUCA win a last ball thriller against Loudoun Cubs.

“Perhaps the most memorable win in QUCA's history that yo-yoed up and down and ultimately, resulted in a last ball win.
After a fantastic first quarter where the opposition was kept in check, the QUCA team was stunned by a spectacular hundred by Shaunak that left them with 187 to chase.
But no matter - the top three batters made the chase look like a piece of cake and at the 15 over break, the team was sitting pretty at 108/1 with Naveer looking in supreme form, on 58, needing just over 5 an over and plenty of batting to come. Then Jayden got out, Naveer got a cramp, runs dried up with our most fluent batters from the past 2 games struggled with their timing. Then 3 wickets in 3 balls! Another runout in the next over and the game dead and buried.
32 runs needed in the last 3 overs, 2 wkts left. Silence in the dugout, what have we done! But Johnny, who showed amazing calm and Sahir, who was a crazy man on a mission had other ideas.
They ran well, Sahir hit a 4 in the 28th over. Then a 6 in the 29th, leaving 7 in the last over. With just one more batter to come, the two made the right decision to do this by running instead of going for the big shots. A first ball couple by Johnny ensured that only one a ball was needed, which they did without any trouble or risk.”

07/30/2022

NYCL 2022 - U11 : Nationals

Best bowler economy & MVP Semifinals: Arpan Vijay - DreamCricket