USA Men’s Cricket Team History
The USA hosted and participated in the first-ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844. Still, their involvement in international cricket was minimal for the next century and a half.
Their first significant accomplishment came in 2004 when they qualified for the ICC Champions Trophy in England by winning the Six Nations Challenge that year. The two matches the USA played were their first authorized ones in international cricket, per ICC rules. But they had to wait 14 more years to play their succeeding international.
The years succeeding their Champions Trophy appearance were followed by administrative instability, but the USA performed creditably on the field, finishing second in the WCL Americas Division One in 2006. The subsequent year, they remained forced to take out from the ICC WCL Division Three – a top-two finish would have sponsored them to Division Two – subsequently, the ICC deferred the United States Cricket of America Cricket Association (USACA) over monetary and authority issues.
Once they were recalled in 2008, they began from the bottom, WCL Division Five. In spite of USACA being suspended once more in 2015 and the ICC taking over, USA’s performance got them promoted to Division Three in 2017. The USA Cricket, the new body that substituted USACA, came into being the same year. In 2018, in the final of the WCL Division Three, the USA defeated where their top-four finish guaranteed them ODI status. In 2024, the USA beat Bangladesh
2024: First bilateral T20I series victory over a Full Member side (Bangladesh), Houston
- United States of America Cricket Team
- Captain: Monank Patel
- First international match: 1844
- Cricket board: USA Cricket
United States of America Squad
- Monank Patel
- Aaron Jones
- Juanoy Drysdale
- Harmeet Singh
- Jasdeep Singh
- Nosthush Kenjige
- Milind Kumar
- Saiteja Mukkamalla
- Abhishek Paradkar
- Smit Patel
- Shayan Jahangir
- Utkarsh Srivastava
- Steven Taylor
- Shadley van Schalkwyk
- Yasir Mohammad
England Men’s Cricket Team History
Over the next 50 years, England – under the control of MCC, based at Lord’s – began to play Test cricket with several of Britain’s former colonies: South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, and India. In 1932-33, Douglas Jardine’s uncompromising bid to regain the Ashes – in the so-called Bodyline series, spearheaded by fast bowler Harold Larwood – caused a diplomatic incident after several Australian batters were struck by short-pitched intimidatory bowling.
England next won the Ashes in 1953 under the leadership of Len Hutton, who successfully retained them in Australia in 1954-55. By then, England had played their first series (a 1-1 draw) against the newly independent Pakistan, led by former India allrounder Abdul Kardar, in 1954.
In 1971, England and Australia played in the world’s first one-day international competition. The format gained popularity so quickly that, in 1975, England hosted the first World Cup – as they did the subsequent two editions in 1979 and 1983. They reached at least the semi-finals in each of the first five stagings but lost in the final three times, including to Pakistan at the MCG in 1992. England finally won the tournament in 2019 after a thrilling tied final against New Zealand.
In 2003, England devised T20 cricket for a new county competition. The format rapidly gained popularity after India’s victory in the inaugural World Cup in 2007. England won their first ICC silverware in T20, beating Australia to win the 2010 edition, then became the first team to hold the 50-over and 20-over world titles concurrently by winning the T20 World Cup final in 2022.
- Captains: Ben Stokes (Tests), Jos Buttler (ODIs and T20Is)
- Coaches: Brendon McCullum
- First international match: 1877
- Cricket board: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
- ICC titles: 3
England’s Squad
- Ben Stokes
- Jos Buttler
- Jason Roy
- Joe Root
- Moeen Ali
- James Anderson
- Jonny Bairstow
- Jacob Bethell
- Harry Brook
- Ben Duckett
- Tom Hartley
- Josh Hull
- Chris Woakes
- Sam Curran
- Liam Livingstone
