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Top West Indian players involved in US Open T20 in Florida

Nov 27, 2010 Sports

By Sean Devers

Although there is a National team which represents the United States of America in Cricket, the game is still a minority sport among the over 310 million people that reside in the USA, the third largest country both by land area and population and mostly West Indians and Asians play the game competitively.
It might surprise many that in September 1844 at the St George’s Cricket Club, Bloomingdale Park in New York, the USA opposed the British Empire’s Canadian Province in the first official international cricket match ever played. Close to 20,000 spectators watched Canada win by 22 runs.
Four years after the USA Cricket Association (USACA) was founded in 1961, the North American country became an ICC Associate member and enjoyed their proudest moment in 2004 when they qualified for the ICC Champions League ODI tournament which was won by the West Indies in England.
But controversy halted the USA’s progress a year later when the USACA was suspended by the ICC and banned from all major events. USA re-entered International cricket in 2008 and in August of this year, led by a century from Guyana’s Lennox Cush, beat host Italy in the final of the World Cricket League Division Four championship to qualify to play in the Division 3 league in China in January.
As the USA set their sights on playing in the 2015 World Cup, several West Indians are playing a major role in the game’s development and a plethora of stars from Guyana and the Caribbean are set to light up the Florida landscape on December 3 & 4 in the 2nd annual US Open T20 cricket tournament.
Sacked former West Indies Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan is one of four Guyanese with senior West Indies team experience expected to turn out for the United Chargers in the T20 tournament with Narsingh Deonarine, Mahendra Nagamootoo and Leon Johnson being the others. Former Guyana under-19 player and USA Skipper Steve Massiah, and Ex Guyana First-Class player Vishaul Nagamootoo are also in the Chargers unit.
Last year’s losing finalist Bedessee Destroyers will enter the 2010 competition as one of the favourites to take the $25,000 prize and this year Manager of Bedessee New York Destroyers, Chubb Bedessee, has also entered Bedessee Florida Destroyers, which like the Bedessee New York Destroyers, will also comprise local and national players from the Caribbean
After their runner-up spot in the inaugural competition, the Destroyers will be looking to reverse its fortunes and has sought the services of Guyana’s Lennox Cush and T&T stars Darren Ganga, Lendl Simmons, Navin Stewart, Dave Mohammed and William Perkins. They will be joined by current USA all rounder Orlando Baker, ex-West Indies fast bowler Jermaine Lawson and ex-Guyana fast bowler Kevin Darlington.
The Bedessee Florida Destroyers will have the services of current Jamaican national players Danza Hyatt, Krishmar Santokie and Shawn Findlay along with T&T’s Sherwin Ganga and Denesh Ramdin.
The Destroyers Coach is former Guyana pacer Linden Fraser who stated that the team will be ready to go on December 3. Fraser lauded the work of Sports trainer Basil Butcher Jr. (son of former Guyana & West Indies batsman Basil Butcher) who is helping with the team’s preparation. Lester Hooper, the younger brother of former Guyana and West Indies Captain Carl Hooper, is the Assistant Manager of the New York side.
The Guyanese based players, including Sarwan, are scheduled to leave for North America on December 1.

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