Internet Reacts To Indian Origin Players Representing In US Women Cricket Team

In India, cricket is treated more like a religion than a sport. People are more keen to play the sport and became the part of national team. But now Indians are not sticking to their own National Cricket Team. The sport is populat worldwide, even Indians are becoming more notable on teams from different western nations. Indian origin citizen are also making it to the teams of respective country, for instance US Under-19 Women team have handful of Indian origin players.

For the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup, which will take place in South Africa starting in January 2023, the United States recently unveiled its national team, and it was surprisingly full of players of Indian origin.

Indian Players On USA Cricket Team

Geetika Kodali will lead a 15-player team representing Team USA. Anika Kolan has been named vice captain, and five non-traveling reserves have also been named. The USA will compete in a difficult Group A with Australia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The coaching staff is led by Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a former captain of the West Indies cricket team and a cricketer of Indian descent.

Team USA Women’s U-19 Squad

Geetika Kodali (C), Anika Kolan (wk), Aditi Chudasama, Bhumika Bhadriraju, Disha Dhingra, Isani Vaghela, Jivana Aras, Laasya Mullapudi, Pooja Ganesh (wk), Ritu Singh, Sai Tanmayi Eyyunni, Snigdha Paul, Suhani Thadani, and Taranum Chopra.

Reserves: Chetnaa Prasad, Kasturi Vedantham, Lisa Ramjit, Mitali Patwardhan, Tya Gonsalves

Head Coach: Shivnarine Chanderpaul

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Users found it interesting that the USA cricket team appeared to be any other Indian team based on the name and image that were posted on social media platforms. One user tweeted: “USA Cricket team or India B team??” Another one commented: “The USA women's cricket team is a more diverse representation of India than the Indian women's cricket team.”

The ICC U-19 Women's T20 World Cup is the inaugural competition for the top young female cricketers from around the world, which will take place every two years. Eleven ICC Full-Member countries—Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe—got automatic entry to the competition. One team from each of the ICC's five regions competed for the remaining five spots.