New Jersey Stallions (cricket)

New Jersey Stallions

League	Minor League Cricket
Conference	Eastern Division (Atlantic Conference)
Personnel
Captain	Jasdeep Singh
Owner	Venu Palaparthi
Chief executive	Ravikumar Suri
Team information
City	Somerset, New Jersey
Colours	Purple, and   Red.
Founded	2020;3 years ago (2020)
Home ground	Howe Athletic Complex, New Jersey
Official website	newjerseystallions.com
T20 kit

The New Jersey Stallions are an American professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that competes in Minor League Cricket (MiLC). The team is based in Somerset, New Jersey. It was formed in 2020 as part of 24 original teams to compete in Minor League Cricket. ^[1] The team is co-owned by businessmen Venu Palaparthi and Ravikumar Suri. ^[1]

The team's home ground is Howe Athletics Complex, located in Somerset, New Jersey. ^[2] Jasdeep Singh took the helm as captain, with ex-South African player Justin Dill helming vice-captain duties. ^[3]

Americans Saiteja Mukkamala and Stephen Wiig lead the batting and bowling leaderboards for the team with 367 runs and 27 wickets. ^{[4] [5]}

Franchise history

Background

Talks of an American Twenty20 league started in November 2018 just before USA Cricket became the new governing body of cricket in the United States. ^{[6] [7]} In May 2021, USA Cricket announced they had accepted a bid by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) for a US$1 billion investment covering the league and other investments benefitting the U.S. national teams. ^[8]

In an Annual General Meeting on February 21, 2020, it was announced that USA Cricket was planning to launch Major League Cricket in 2021 and Minor League Cricket that summer, ^[9] but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic ^[10] and due to the lack of high-quality cricket stadiums in the USA. ^[11] Major League Cricket was pushed to a summer-2023 launch ^[12] and Minor League Cricket was pushed back to July 31, 2021. ^[13]

USA Cricket CEO Iain Higgins also pointed out cities such as New York City, Houston and Los Angeles with a large cricket fanbase, and targeted them among others as launch cities for Minor League Cricket. ^[14]

Exhibition league

In July 2020, the player registration for the Minor League Cricket exhibition league began. ^[15] On August 15, 2020, USA Cricket announced the teams participating in the exhibition league matches, also listing the owners for each team. ^[16] The draft for the exhibition league began on August 22, 2020, ^[17] with the New Jersey Stallions releasing their squad on August 24. ^[18] Nikhil Dutta was later named as captain for the New Jersey Stallions in the exhibition league. ^[19]

2021 season

See also: 2021 Minor League Cricket season § Atlantic Conference

After the conclusion of the exhibition league, USA Cricket announced that they were planning to launch the inaugural season of Minor League Cricket in spring 2021. ^[20] Ahead of the official season, which was announced to kick off on July 31, ^[21] they announced Jasdeep Singh as captain and Justin Dill as vice-captain. ^[3]

In their first match of the season, they defeated the Morrisville Cardinals by 20 runs, and also defeated the Param Veers by 83 runs the following day. ^[22] They then went on to win against the Titans twice, ^{[23] [24]} the Philadelphians, ^[25] the Hawks, ^[26] the Yorkers, ^[25] the Cavaliers twice, ^{[24] [27]} and the Eagles twice. ^{[23] [28]} They additionally lost against the Hawks, ^[26] the Yorkers, ^[23] the Galaxy, ^[29] and the Ft. Lauderdale Lions. ^[29] The Stallions topped the group, and qualified for the quarter-finals. ^[25]

In the quarterfinals, the Stallions swept the Cardinals 2-0 in a best-of-three series, thus qualifying them for the semifinals. ^[30] In the semifinals, the Stallions faced the Titans, ^[31] and defeated them by 5 wickets. ^[32] In the finals, the Silicon Valley Strikers beat the Stallions by 6 wickets in a thriller to take home the trophy. ^[33]

2022 season

Ahead of the 2022 season, Major League Cricket announced that the draft for that season would take place on May 12. ^[34]

Current squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.
•  *  denotes a player who is currently unavailable for selection.
•  *  denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season

Name	Nat.	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Signed year	Notes
Batsmen
Hiren Patel		(1975-09-16) 16 September 1975 (age 47)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox bowling	2021	Overseas
Preet Shah		(1996-01-20) 20 January 1996 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021
Rovman Powell		(1993-07-23) 23 July 1993 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2021	Overseas
Sachin Mylavarapu		(1991-06-21) 21 June 1991 (age 31)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox bowling	2021	Overseas
All-rounders
Anirudh Immanuel		(2004-09-23) 23 September 2004 (age 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin	2021
Daniel Williams		(1981-12-10) 10 December 1981 (age 41)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2021	Overseas
Dominique Rikhi		(1993-03-20) 20 March 1993 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021
Jasdeep Singh		(1993-02-10) 10 February 1993 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021	Captain
Jon-Ross Campbell		(1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021	Overseas
Justin Dill		(1994-12-10) 10 December 1994 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021	Overseas vice-captain
Karan Patel		(1994-09-30) 30 September 1994 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021	Overseas
Laxman Nyamagouda		(1985-08-19) 19 August 1985 (age 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021
Raymond Ramrattan		(2000-07-10) 10 July 2000 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2021
Ritvik Bansal		(1998-12-08) 8 December 1998 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021
Stephen Wiig		(1998-02-11) 11 February 1998 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium fast	2021
Varun Mantha		(2004-06-29) 29 June 2004 (age 18)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium fast	2021
Viraj Desai		(1988-01-25) 25 January 1988 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021
Wicket-keepers
Saiteja Mukkamalla		(2004-04-09) 9 April 2004 (age 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021

Statistics

Most runs

Nat.	Player	Span	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100	50
	Saiteja Mukkamalla	2021–present	18	17	367	26.21	68	0	2
	Dominique Rikhi	2021–present	13	13	315	24.23	46	0	0
	Jon-Ross Campbell	2021–present	16	15	291	24.25	65	0	2
	Hiren Patel	2021-present	18	14	211	19.18	48	0	0
	Rovman Powell	2021–present	5	5	200	66.67	71	0	2

Source: CricClubs, Last updated: 10 March 2022

Most wickets

Nat.	Player	Span	Matches	Wickets	Avg	BBI	Econ	SR	4w	5w
	Stephen Wiig	2021–present	17	27	15.07	4/35	6.84	13.2	1	0
	Justin Dill	2021–present	18	21	20.05	4/26	6.90	17.4	1	0
	Sachin Mylavarapu	2021–present	18	20	18.00	3/20	5.62	19.2	0	0
	Jasdeep Singh	2021–present	11	18	11.50	4/13	5.22	13.2	1	0
	Raymond Ramrattan	2021–present	16	17	15.65	3/13	6.79	13.8	0	0

Source: CricClubs, Last updated: 10 March 2022

See also

• 2021 Minor League Cricket season
• 2021 Minor League Cricket season squads
• 2021 Minor League Cricket season final
• Minor League Cricket
• Major League Cricket
• Houston Hurricanes (cricket)
• Seattle Thunderbolts
• Silicon Valley Strikers
• DC Hawks
• SoCal Lashings

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