22 Yards Cricket Club and USA Cricket have got the ICC sanction to host the 2nd edition of Unity Cup T20 tournament in Washington DC area from May 25th – 30th, 2022 at the venues of Veterans Cricket field and Bolen Parks Cricket fields. The tournament will see thirteen (13) teams compete with most of the players taking part also registered to play the 2nd edition of Minor League Cricket (MiLC) in June 2022.
The tournament will have the 13 teams divided into four (4) groups and will play their round-robin group stage matches, before the knock-out stages of the competition. Group A consists of teams from Clarion County Asia UTD, RDU and Stallions, while Group B consists of teams from Cavaliers 22 Yards, Potomac, DMV Warriors and Yankee Royals.
Group C consists of teams from Atlanta Fire, SAMP Army and Stallions X, while Group D will consist of teams from Cric Lanes, Florida Scorpions and Skky Strikers. All the teams feature players from USA domestic circuit, including overseas professionals who have signed up with MiLC in the past couple of years and also players from other Associate member boards. Some of the known players from other overseas countries include the likes of Nitish Kumar, David Wiese, Gareth Delaney, Basant Regmi, Rizwan Cheema, Saad bin Zafar, Tre Manders, Dilon Heyliger, Kamau Leverock, Nikhil Dutta, Aryan Lakra, Tom Bruce, Hussain Talat, Riki Wessels, Samit Patel, Neil Broom, Nyeem Young, Kesrick Williams, Peter Younghusband, Tom Barber, Rayad Emrit and others.
2022 Unity Cup T20 Schedule
25th May 2022: Potomac vs Yankee Royals (Scorecard) ; Cric Lanes vs Florida Scorpions (Scorecard) ; DMV Warriors vs Cavaliers 22 Yards (Scorecard) ; Clarion County Asia United vs RDU (Scorecard)
26th May 2022: Stallions vs RDU (Scorecard) ; Cavaliers 22 Yards vs Potomac (Scorecard) ; DMV Warriors vs Yankee Royals (Scorecard) ; Atlanta Fire vs SAMP Army (Scorecard) ; Florida Scorpions vs Skky Strikers (Scorecard)
27th May 2022: Potomac vs DMV Warriors (Scorecard) ; SAMP Army vs Stallions (Scorecard) ; Yankee Royals vs Cavaliers 22 Yards (Scorecard) ; Stallions vs Atlanta Fire (Scorecard)
28th May 2022: Skky Strikers vs DMV Warriors (QF – Scorecard) ; Cavaliers 22 Yards vs Cric Lanes (QF – Scorecard)
29th May 2022: SAMP Army vs Skky Strikers (SF – Scorecard) ; Cavaliers 22 Yards vs Clarion County Asia United (SF – Scorecard)
30th May 2022: Final – Clarion County Asia United vs SAMP Army (Scorecard)
