selectors and i was brought into the national team in january oracle has been kind enough to support mecricket seems to be growing fast in the us as per icc statistics the game is played in 48 states with over 400 leagues 6000 teams and more than 200000 participants fans are estimated to be anywhere between 22 million and 36 million who plays cricket thereas of now the national players are only from testplaying nations the subcontinent guys and the caribbean players now the secondgeneration kids around 1415 of age are also playing the game they are extremely talented i have mentored a few kids as well gradually the locals are also showing interest cricket usa has started a rookie league where they pick up kids from schools they are trying to expand the base they are also gradually building infrastructureflorida and houston have stadiums now they have built a very good turf facility in north carolina where we played our icc world t20 qualifiersformer ranji players such as maharashtras sushil nadkarni and hyderabads ibrahim khaleel have also captained the us national team how many indians and pakistanis are there in the national teamwe have a mix of players mostly from the west indies india and pakistan we also had a guy in the t20 team david wakefield who was from new zealand our coach pubudu dassanyake has kept wickets for sri lanka in both tests and odishow does it feel to captain team usait is an honour to be part of the national team we went to west indies this year to play in their firstclass circuit to which they have added the us and canada as foreign teams i performed well and was picked to play caribbean premier league for guyana amazon warriors i didnt get a game though we are travelling next week to oman where we will be playing world cricket league division iii it will be a qualifier for the odi world cup 2023