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By Peter Della Penna
USACA’s list of players invited to a men’s selection camp from
January 19-22 in Fort Lauderdale has changed shape again over the
weekend with two new players added to the list while three others have
been removed. As it stands now, 28 players will be participating in a
camp to select a squad of 14 players to go to the UAE for the 2012 ICC
World Twenty20 Qualifier from March 13-24.
The
updated list on the USACA web site includes Andy Mohammed and Charan
Singh, who both represented USA in August in a series of Twenty20
matches at the Etihad Summer Cricket Festival in Toronto. The three
names trimmed from the list were Salman Ahmad, Ravi Timbawala and Carl
Wright.
“Ravi and Salman wouldn’t be able to go to Dubai because of college
classes,” said USACA General Manager Manaf Mohamed when contacted by
phone on Sunday morning. “They wouldn’t be able to get the time off in
March to come.”
As for Wright, Mohamed said that USACA wasn’t able to get into
contact with him despite announcing that he had been invited to the
camp. As a result, USACA is not arranging for him to come to the camp.
“We haven’t been able to communicate with him,” said Mohamed. “We don’t
know where he is.”
In other news, a decision regarding the hosting sites for the USACA
U-17 Tournament and USACA Women’s Tournament was expected to be taken
during a meeting of the USACA Cricket Committee on Monday, January 9.
However, Mohamed said that he was still awaiting confirmation regarding
both the dates and sites of each tournament. He would not confirm
whether either tournament would be held as originally scheduled.
On December 9, USACA published its events calendar for 2012, but
already the USACA Twenty20 Nationals which were slated for next weekend
have been postponed. The probability of the U-17 and Women’s Tournaments
happening on their originally scheduled dates is increasingly doubtful.
The USACA U-17 Tournament is currently scheduled for February 17-20
while the Women’s Tournament is scheduled for March 9-11.
List of players (as of January 15) receiving invites to USACA selection camp January 19-22 in Florida
Quasen Alfred (New York), Imran Awan (Atlantic), Orlando Baker
(Central West), Adil Bhatti (Atlantic), Ryan Corns (Central West), Akeem
Dodson (New York), Bhim George (South East), Muhammad Ghous (Atlantic),
Adrian Gordon (New York), Elmore Hutchinson (South West), Naseer Jamali
(North West), Asif Khan (Central East), Ashhar Mehdi (Central East),
Aditya Mishra (North West), Andy Mohammed (New York), Nauman Mustafa
(North West), Sushil Nadkarni (Central West), Japen Patel (South East),
Mital Patel (Atlantic), Abhimanyu Rajp (South West), Gowkaran Roopnarine
(Atlantic), Saqib Saleem (North West), Samarth Shah (North West),
Hammad Shahid (South West), Usman Shuja (Central West), Charan Singh
(Atlantic), Timothy Surujbally (South East) Steven Taylor (South East)
List of players by Region
Atlantic: Imran Awan, Adil Bhatti, Muhammad Ghous, Mital Patel, Gowkaran Roopnarine (wk), Charan Singh
Central East: Asif Khan, Ashhar Mehdi (wk)
Central West: Orlando Baker, Ryan Corns, Sushil Nadkarni, Usman Shuja
New York: Quasen Alfred, Akeem Dodson (wk), Adrian Gordon, Andy Mohammed
North East: None
North West: Naseer Jamali, Aditya Mishra, Nauman Mustafa (wk), Saqib Saleem, Samarth Shah
South East: Bhim George, Japen Patel, Timothy Surujbally, Steven Taylor (wk)
South West: Elmore Hutchinson, Abhimanyu Rajp, Hammad Shahid