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The Five College Players of the Year for 2011 was recently announced by American College Cricket. The players were recognized for their on field and off the field efforts in American College Cricket this past year. Previous winners are not eligible to repeat. The 5 American College Cricket Players of 2011 are...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed the schedule for the World Cricket League Division Five competition that will be held in Singapore in February. The hosts will be joined by Argentina, Bahrain, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Malaysia between 18th and 25th February with matches played at three venues.

USYCA is pleased to announce the opening of its first national headquarters, located just minutes from Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Glen Burnie, Maryland, along with a new dedicated phone number. The building is located in the Madison Park professional development, which features fashionable buildings in a park-like setting.

The ICC has announced the dates and format of the qualifying tournament for the 2012 World Twenty 20, which will be held in Sri Lanka in September. The 16-team event will begin in the UAE on 13th March, and encompass five different grounds in three different emirates, before coming to its conclusion in a tournament final on 24th March in Dubai.

After catching the eye of American College Cricket President Lloyd Jodah at a practice game, Adrian Gordon worked with Lloyd to start a cricket club at NYU- Polytechnic University, to play in the 2010 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship. Then in the first Northeast regional for American College Cricket Gordon led NYU-Poly to the Finals, he travelled to Washington DC to assist in staging the Mid Atlantic Championship.

USYCA has received a grant in the amount of $22,000 from the Apple Pickers Foundation, a charitable organization based in Westerly, Rhode Island. The grant has already been put to good use, being key in the acquisition of nearly 600 additional American Cricket Champ sets, which will soon find their way into the hands of schoolchildren across the country.

Ireland skipper William Porterfield is to captain an International Cricket Council (ICC) Combined Associate and Affiliate XI against England in a three-day game in Dubai from 7th to 9th January. The match, held at the ICC Global Academy in Dubai, will form part of England's preparations for a three-Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.

Cricket Without Boundaries (CWB), the leading UK cricket development and AIDS awareness charity has appointed Surrey Cricket Development Manager, Simon Hards, to be the Country Manager for Uganda. Simon was one of CWB’s very first volunteers, travelling to Kenya on the autumn 2007 trip. The role will involve helping the management of future CWB projects as well as helping maintaining and developing relationships with both existing and new stakeholders.

With the completion of six of the seven American College Cricket regional Championships, the Power Rankings of Universities' cricket clubs in the USA & Canada have changed dramatically since the national Championship in March 2011.

The 5 American College Cricket games broadcast so far in USA & Canada have been historic and groundbreaking - with 1 more to come for this Fall season - this Saturday at 7pm, York College vs NJIT. No other organisation has even come close to televising domestic cricket in the USA and Canada.

The development of local cricket umpires has taken a significant step forward with the recent announcement that Avatiu cricketer Brendon Fiebig will be the first Cook Islands based umpire to officiate in a New Zealand secondary schools tournament this December.

It is time to celebrate some of the performances of top cricketers and teams who dazzled their way to stake their claims for the 2011 Cricket World Awards. Now you can nominate the batsman, bowler, and the team, who you think have produced outstanding performances on the cricket field either with the bat or the ball in the last 12 months.

Cook Islands Cricket has further extended its close partnership with Northern Districts Cricket by signing off on an agreement that will see the country’s top ANZ junior cricketers playing in major secondary school tournaments in New Zealand.

ICC Americas has made a donation of 40 plastic cricket sets, plus a number of ICC Development Program publications, to USYCA for use in its youth cricket programs. The cricket sets are destined for community cricket programs such as the Prince George's County (MD) Summer Playgrounds Program, which will be introducing cricket at 29 venues for the first time next summer.

West Indies were crowned as champions of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2011, after defeating Pakistan by 130 runs. By virtue of winning the tournament, West Indies has risen in the Reliance ICC Women’s ODI Team Rankings - West Indies now sits fifth in the world while Pakistan has risen from eighth to now occupy sixth place. ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, West Indies' Stafanie Taylor was named Player of the Tournament. Taylor was the highest run-scorer in the tournament after the 20-year-old from Jamaica amassed 325 runs at an average of 81.25, she also claimed 10 wickets at an average of 9.30.

Hosts of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2011, Bangladesh, have secured One-Day International status for first time for its women’s side after Salma Khatun’s side beat USA in a low-scoring fixture. Meanwhile, Ireland defeated fellow European qualifier and ODI side Netherlands, to retain its ODI status – the result means that Netherlands has lost its ODI status for the women’s side. Bangladesh and Ireland will now face-off on Saturday in the 5th/6th play-off for the tournament at BKSP* 2.

Nine Cricket Without Boundaries ["CWB"] volunteer coaches have just returned from a two week project in Kenya having coached and developed cricket with key AIDS awareness messages. The members of the team came from all over the UK and had an age spread of 16-70.

It was the Fall Semester in 2010, and, after one and a half years of work, I finally was able to motivate the (new) executive of the Gators Cricket Club to begin playing with the "season ball". Uncertainly they agreed, and said they would be ready for the 2012 Championship ( another year & a half later!) But I challenged them to participate in the 2010 Southeast regionals and they did, led by Club President Krishnaro Dase!

West Indies and South Africa maintained its unbeaten runs in the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2011 (WWCQ) in Dhaka as the sides won both of its final rounds of group matches at the tournament. By virtue of topping its groups the two sides have now qualified for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2013 and have also retained its ODI statuses.

Eimear Richardson helped Ireland to its first victory of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers 2011 in Dhaka today after the 25-year-old all-rounder hit a half-century and claimed five wickets to steer the team to 255-run victory over Japan at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.