Dozens of young cricketers will be honored at the College Park, MD, event.
The Maryland Youth Cricket Association will honor top performers from the last season at its second annual gala in College Park on December 15, 2018.
Dozens of young players in various age categories and divisions will be honored at the event, which will be held at the Holiday Inn College Park.
The cricketers who will be honored include Future Star School of Cricket (FSSC) allrounder Ritwik Behera and members of the Maryland State Under-16 team that competed in National Youth Cricket League in San Jose.
Behera, a Gaithersburg, MD, resident and a freshman at Poolesville High School, plays for Team Red — captained by the US national team star Adil Bhatti — in the Washington Cricket League.
The state Under-16 team also played in the Capital Youth Cricket Championship.
Maryland Sports Executive Director Terry Hasseltine will deliver the keynote address at the banquet and prominent Indian American entrepreneur and philanthropist Frank Islam will present the awards.
The MYCA state championship tournament is held from April to June. This year, 24 teams competed in five divisions: Boys Under-11, Under-13 and Under-16 , and Girls Under-13 and All Girls.
The current Boys Under-16 champions are FSCC, who defeated LTC in the championship match played at the Spencerville Park in Silver Spring, MD, on June 24.
Winners in the Under-13 division are GKRR, who beat Ellicott City in the finals.
In the Under-11 division, Bowie 11U and WCA were declared joint winners.
In the All Girls division, Bowie 1 defeated Ellicott City in the finals.
MYCA launched the Maryland Junior Cricket League and the Maryland Youth Cricket Championship in 2013. They were the first annual statewide youth cricket competitions in the United States
The association has introduced cricket to thousands of elementary and middle schools children in the state. According to MYCA, it has placed cricket sets in over 500 Maryland schools, making Maryland the national leader in schools cricket.
Top Performers in Each Division
Division | Best Batsman | Best Bowler | MVP |
Under-11 | Amit Damaraju (WCA) | Aaryan Boddupally (WCA) | Tanush Apte (FSSC) |
Under-13 | Adithya Kidambi (GKRR) | Dev F Patel (Ellicott City) | Rish Kajale (Ellicott City) |
Under-16 | Hallaj Rana (LTC) | Jaspreet Singh (LTC) | Ritwik Behera (FSSC) |
Girls | Sana Sanwal (Ellicott City) | Stephie Janey (Bowie 1) | Jenna Knight (Bowie 1) |
Top Performers in the Boys Under-11 Division
Team | Best Batsman | Best Bowler | MVP |
Ellicott City | Pradyumnan Vishaal | Surya Santhalingam | Akhil Chakravarthy |
Chantilly | Zayaan Mallick | Vijay Mahimtura | Aum Patel |
Bowie | Urenna Acholonu | Saish Kanakamedala | Vikranth Sabbavarpu |
FSSC | Shiv Nair | Nischay Nithyananda | Tanush Apte |
LTC | Prabhnoor Singh | Aaditya Patel | Parin Herman |
GKCC | Siddharth Kothale | Mihir Verma | Raahil Shah |
WCA | Prithul Baveja | Aaryan Boddupally | Amit Damaraju |
Rockville | Cole Piraino | Shenal Ediriweera | Jai Mohale |
LFYAA | Thomas Polk | Liam Hontz | Everett Hontz |
Top Performers in the Under-13 Division
Team | Best Batsman | Best Bowler | MVP |
Bowie | Aadil Master | Ayaan Osman | Abhinav Samuel |
Ellicott City | Rish Kajale | Dev F Patel | Arjun Muley |
GKRR | Adithya Kidambi | Araav Rotella | Raghav Haridas |
WCA | Amit Damaraju | Prithul Baveja | Shawn Mathias |
Top Performers in the Under-16 Division
Team | Best Batsman | Best Bowler | MVP |
Bowie | Rishi Jindal | Aadil Master | Shuaib Syed |
FSSC | Nileesha Ratnayake | Mihir Ganguli | Ritwik Behera |
LTC | Raja Herman | Jaspreet Singh | Hallaj Rana |
GKCC | Soumith Gadila | Raghav Haridas | Arjun Rakheja |
Rockville | Aditya Samyak | Nush Gai | Shravan Sudhir and Ziyan Ahmed |
MD Thunder | Ohm Sapa | Shivam Patel | Vikas Patel |
WCL Cubs | Aaryan Batra | Shuja Khan | Shivoy Sharma |
Top Performers in the Girls Division
Team | Best Batsman | Best Bowler | MVP |
Bowie 1 | Joanna Chen | Stephie Janey | Jenna Knight |
Bowie 2 | Bree Mullikin | Garbrielle Hart | Annika Hart |
Ellicott City | Aditi Garg | Anushka Ganoo | Sana Sanwal |
Chantilly | Ashwika Chandu | Akshara Subburam | Sneha Kalyan |
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Ritwik Behera, a Montgomery County, MD, resident and a bright scholar at Poolesville High School, plays for the Washington Cricket league premiere division got selected for the USA Under 19 Mid-Atlantic Zone. He will be playing in the National Championship that scheduled to be held from April 4th to 11th, 2021 at PrarieView Cricket Complex in Houston, Texas.