More PE teachers/schools are expected to launch cricket in Indiana.

 

In order to receive sets during this year's event - you must register online at

http://www.indianacricket.org/elinks/inycamem.htm

 

 

During June 17-19 INYCA plan to celebrate their 3^rd year partnership with IU,

During PESI -  PE Teachers conference in Indianapolis, more teachers are expected to join school cricket program. INYCA rolled school cricket program in 243 schools & 357 teachers (71 are now “Basics of Cricket” Certified” )in Indiana with PESI initial rapid boost of 74 teachers last year.

PESI summer event provides great opportunity to interact many PE teachers from the state of Indiana at same time which saves many in school clinics and volunteer time to reach them. With this year’s event we also plan to kick start “Advanced  cricket” & “Umpiring Basics” clinics during this summer which will help/support our plan for T10 Inter school program launch for 2013-14 school year. It’s great opportunity for all PE teachers to grab their FREE USYCA cricket sets with training instructions, in addition to that we are adding “Basics of Cricket” for them to attend this summer.

as per USYCA policy - FREE cricket sets are always available but limited to 1 FREE set per school per teacher(s). also only for those who never received their cricket set in last 3 years.


PESI / IU Related Articles:

74 Indiana pe teachers receive cricket sets at 2012 physical education summer institute

http://usyca.org/06_27_2012_74_indiana_pe_teachers_receive_cricket_sets_at_2012_physical_education_summer_institute.cfm"

Indiana university partners with usyca Indiana yca

http://usyca.org/05_21_2012_indiana_university_partners_with_usyca_indiana_yca.cfm

cricket on display at Indiana physical education summer institute

http://usyca.org/06_28_2011_cricket_on_display_at_indiana_physical_education_summer_institute.cfm

Indy Legends win Fort Wayne 2013 Cricket Tournament

On June 8th Sat 2013 - Fort Wayne Warriors hosted their day long cricket tournament in Columbia City, Indiana. Which was re-scheduled from June 1st due to weather. Tournament was Grand success as 16 teams who made it to the tournament.

More details with pictures and video can be found here

http://fortwaynewarriors.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Indy Legends team won the 2013 championship by beating host Fort Wayne Warriors team in the final

Congratulations! to Indy Legends

Scholar from the Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana draws World attention

Recently, Embassy of the United States of America published article about Cricket in the USA by author Brian Murgatroyd.

which can be downloaded or Viewed at the following link.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/133183/english/1305_Cricket_InTheUSA_English.pdf

Published picture on Page two with "An 11-year-old student practices cricket skills she learned in her gym class at Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana."

This is another noticeable Indiana youth/School cricket work in progress, as Indiana Youth Cricket hosted Day long In school cricket clinic for the county wide schools launch in Kokomo area during last winter

- more details can be found at

http://kokomotribune.com/local/x1633464954/Area-schools-are-adding-cricket-to-their-PE-curriculum

 http://usyca.org/02_13_2013_two_more_indiana_school_districts_add_cricket.cfm

Columbus continues their Cricket journey with the Movie "Fire in Babylon"

Columbus, Indiana, once again leads Indiana Cricket to bring more cricket awareness in the local community. CAMEO's  kicks off its Annual Film Series on June 10th 2013 with the Movie "Fire in Babylon" 

 

This movie is presented by the Trinbago (Trinidad and Tobago) Association, Which is another exciting opportunity to further Cricket Camper's interest in this wonderful sport through some history on one of the great teams of the sport! Movie is all about how the sport cricket achieved it's highest standard in the West Indies and stayed at the top for more than 15 years as unbeatable team in the cricket world. 

 

Fire in Babylon is a 2010 British documentary film about the record-breaking West Indies cricket team of the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring stock footage and interviews with several former players and officials 

Last Month - India Association successfully hosted their annual hard tennis ball cricket tournament with "Watch a cricket tourney; learn how to play" to promote game in the local community.

 

http://indianacricket.blogspot.com/2013/05/iubcc-wins-iac-cric8-tournament-at.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IUBCC wins IAC Cric8 Tournament at Columbus

During May 18th & 19th weekend - The Indian Association of Columbus hosted its annual Hard tennis ball cricket tournament at Kenneth O. Dunn Stadium, South side of Columbus and just north of the 4-H county Fairgrounds.

Unique Hard tennis ball cricket tournament included 1st time Cricket Camp for the ages 10 and up with the great opportunity to learn and try world's second most popular game for any one who like to learn or know the game cricket.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/local_story/Watch-a-cricket-tourney-learn-_1368843411
Watch a cricket tourney; learn how to play
- article from The Republic - Daily News Paper from Columbus, Indiana.

Many IAC members are INYCA certified cricket coaches and they volunteer their time to promote this game in Columbus during local community camp(s) and now at the tournament.

IUBCC won the final to become champions at The tournament which had 13 teams, including one each from Indianapolis and Bloomington and 11 from Columbus.

Local tournament Host Shashi Singh of IAC concluded successful tournament with the award ceremony, - Final awards were presented by Jatin Patel of USYCA and INYCA.





IUBCC - 2013 IAC - Cric8 - Champions, Columbus, Indiana
Picture copied from IUBCC Facebook Page.

Indiana Inter school cricket is next ...

Gambold Preparatory Magnet High School of Indianapolis, gearing up for Inaugural Inter school cricket in Indiana. which will be historical in USA cricket History.

 

Team Captains Jackie and Malik are schedule to appear for WIBC 1070 AM Radio Interview on May 10th at 1:30 EST in Indianapolis.

 

Mathew Shirk PE Teacher, Prepared both teams during in-school trainings to prepared teams As most of scholars introduced to cricket like them, so beginning next year cricket will be official game at the school with eight weeks of graded in class & Gym cricket schedule

 

Mathew Shirk, is also Director of Coaching for INYCA schools Program and he is one of the Certified Advanced Cricket coaches in Indiana.  He leads team of PE teachers for school cricket in Indiana - Known to be first one in a Nation.

Recently, Jatin Patel of USYCA and Indiana Youth cricket visited school Campus to provide additional help in learning cricket so teams can get ready for the Inter school game during 2013. and Impressed with some talent trained at school. sample video clip as attached which is also available at

 

http://www.indianacricket.org/video/jackie.flv
 

School softball player and team captain Jacqlynn (Jackie) Newman show her cricket ball catching skills which she learned through cricket clinics. Her team's next mission is to Learn the game rule(s) in depth, during the live scrimmage game.

 

 



Sport Cricket is back in Fort Wayne

During 1995 group of people from India organized to launch local cricket team called Fort Wayne cricket club (FWCC) to compete at the higher level and later become the first team from Indiana to participate in Columbus, Ohio based Midwest Cricket Tournament. Team made it to the play offs many times before they shut down their team in late 2003 where they did not compete in Midwest Cricket Tournament due to lack of talented players in the area. During those years FWCC also become the 1^st team from Indiana to reach Championship game in any out of state major cricket tournament.

Recently, Fort Wayne area local cricket (recreational) teams Panthers & Warriors joined together to bring North East Indiana Cricket Camp to launch youth cricket program for the community and local schools.

Ajay Lakhe of Indiana Youth Cricket Association organized the local camp with primary interest to develop youth cricket team as well as coaching mantras to local cricket players & parents to become future youth cricket coaches. Camp was at the full capacity which was lead by Jatin Patel, vice president US Youth Cricket Asociation.                                   

Everyone at the camp – enjoyed and excited to learn the game and hope to continue from this level to the future of youth cricket here in Fort Wayne area. Youth cricket team and coaching plans are all ready in place for this winter in Fort Wayne area.

Re-birth of Cricket in Fort Wayne is another milestone to become the 1^st youth team in Indiana. Ajay Lakhe, is well trained coach in the area who is working with Jatin Patel, ICC certified coach in Indiana are working together to provide all needed training to the youth.

It’s true, game learning is always fun and any one can teach some cricket skills to young kids. Parents are good coach for their kids and may be mom is the best coach, few moms enjoyed cricket camp with learning something new and ready to help young ones …. Let’s bring cricket to our family and community. It’s fun.

 

Comments from Parents:

 

Dawn Scope: I took my son and his two friends to camp in November.  This was the first time they had been introduced to Cricket.  They had a little trouble starting out, but by the end of the camp they were able to hit the balls and were having fun.  The camp was great! 

Pramod Jonnala: I think this cricket camp had been very productive for the kids, as kids here are mostly confined to baseball & football, cricket being an International sport is something they need to look forward and I am glad to see many locals started enquiring about the sport.