NEW YORK: College Cricket in United States took a significant leap with American College Cricket announcing Oct 1, an agreement with TV Asia as their exclusive worldwide broadcast partner in all formats for matches beginning Oct 9 in the United States.
The Semi finals and Finals of the North East and Mid Atlantic Regional Championships will be available on TV Asia every Saturday at 7 pm EDT beginning Oct 29, and repeated at 12 midnight EDT each Saturday until Dec 8, 2011. The schedule will be more extensive next Fall.
The top 32 teams from this Fall season will then compete in the Nationals, the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship in March 2012 in Florida – Cricket Craziness just before College Basketball’s March Madness.
TV Asia will televise the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship including the final 6 matches live from Florida on TV Asia. The National Championship will be played as usual for the Shiv Chanderpaul Trophy.
“American College Cricket pioneered cricket promotion on Facebook, Twitter and now Google +, to reach the Cricket audience in the USA and Canada and was the first to broadcast domestic cricket in the USA in March 2010. TV Asia’s mission and strategy is geared towards the American and Canadian audience so they are the ideal Media Partners,” American College Cricket’s founder and President Lloyd Jodah stated.
“In continuing with our mission to highlight and encourage local Talent, TV Asia is proud to be associated with American College Cricket in televising the regionals and the Spring break Championship Cricket matches in USA & Canada,” stated H.R. Shah Chairman of TV Asia, who agreed to be on the Advisory Board of American College Cricket. “This agreement reaffirms TV Asia’s commitment to be the voice and mirror of the South Asian community in United States and Canada.”
American College Cricket was founded November 2008 with the mission of “Bringing back the Original American and Canadian game”. The first national championship took place in March 2009 with five newly developed teams. It has grown, and developed enduring structures, in about 50 Colleges for the 2011 regional championships.
In a major boost for the game, American College Cricket has been featured in mainstream media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Voice of America, NY Daily News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp, College media and the International Cricket Council film ‘Cricket in America Part 3’.
India Post News Service
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