The squads for the eight franchise teams for the 12th edition of US Open T20 from December 15th – 20th at Central Broward regional park stadium in Florida have been announced, with a host of International players and professionals lined-up to take part in the competition. All matches will be broadcast live on maqtv.com and the scores can be viewed on cricketerbook.com.
Many overseas professionals like Pakistan’s Sami Aslam, South Africa’s Dane Piedt and New Zealand’s Corey Anderson, who have signed up with USA Cricket’s Major League T20 competition, having made their plans of relocating to the US on a permanent basis are also announced in the squads of the teams for the competition.
Somerset Cavaliers, Punjab Blue, US All Stars and SAMP Army teams are clubbed in Group A of the competition, while Group B consists of Atlanta Param Veers, 22 Yards Sultan CC, Brampton Pacers and Afghan Zwanan CC. The group stages will feature a single round-robin league stage, followed by the semi-finals and the grand finale to crown the Champions for the 12th edition of the ICC and USA Cricket approved franchise T20 league in the US.
US Open T20 Select Squads
US All Stars: Zishawn Qureshi (Captain), Zeeshan Ashraf, Ali Shafique, Jaskaran Malhotra, Rizwan Cheema (Canada), Ravinderpal Singh (Canada), Ali Khan, Liam Plunkett, Saad bin Zafar (Canada), Rajesh Sharma, Herlando Johnson, Honey Gori (Czech Republic), Naseer Khan, Damien Rowe, Omari Williams, Abdullah Shah, Samih Sadiq, Abdullah Sheikh, Christopher Lamont & Sameer Khan
Atlanta Param Veers: Rayad Emrit (Captain), Chris Gayle, Param Patel, Corey Anderson, Akeal Hosein, Khary Pierre, Darpan Patel, Damien Ebanks, Wayne Parnell, Fabian Allen, Marquino Mindley, Kissoondath Magram, Garth Garvey, Steven Taylor, Delray Rawlins (Bermuda), Kesrick Williams, Evroy Dyer, Mark Parchment, Ishmael Parchment & Heer Patel
Afghan Zwanan CC: Siva Kumar, Nawaz Khan, Assad Fudadin, Harish Kakani, Ronsford Beaton, Cody Chetty, Mario Rampersaud, Dominique Rikki, Gaurav Bajaj, Ryan Francis, Earl Henningham, Kirk Thomson, Zia Shahzad, Zaki Sultani, Akeem Dodson, Esa Kinarai, Sher Afzal, Taha Jamal, Shakaib Rehan Reahimi & Mohmmad Chowdhury
Punjab Blues: Gary Bhullar, Harry Bhullar, Iknoor Singh, Gurinder Saini, Sachal Magon, Mohammad Asif, Amitoze Singh, Nikhil Kanchan, Rranaq Sharma, Jay Singh, Tirth Patel, Aditya Joshi, Abhimanyu Rajp, Chetan Rajpoot, Masoom Patel, Derwin Christian, Sainikeathen Reddy, Saurabh Joshi, Zubair Ilyas & Vinay Chauhan
Brampton Pacers: Jagjit Randhawa (Captain), Leonardo Julien, Waqas Butt, Asad Zaidi, Jagdeep Randhawa, Ranjeet Singh, Ranveer Singh, Tejinder Dhaliwal, Sukhjinder Sangha, Junaid Siddiqui, Salman Nazar, Sukhdeep Brar, Balkar Kainth, Dunae Nathaniel, Zikriya Sattar, Ricky Nayar, Dale Africa & Fuad Azadi
SAMP Army: Sanjay Stanley (Captain), Abhiram Bolisetty, Aditya Gupta, Akul Gupta, Aryan Shah, Gaurav Khanna, Hitesh Patel, Kunal Sehgal, Nilesh Patil, Prit Patel, Rohan Phadke, Sarnam Patel, Owais Jeelani, Chandu Kasireddy, Akash Joshi, Mujtaba Tariq, Akshar Patel, Utkarsh Srivastava, Gautham Ravindran & Aryan Ghotkar
2020 US Open T20 (Select Scores)
Somerset Cavaliers vs SAMP Army (Scorecard) ; SAMP Army vs Punjab Blues (Scorecard) ; Punjab Blues vs Somerset Cavaliers (Scorecard)