USA Crick­et, led by chair­man Venu Pisike, is in the best pos­si­ble po­si­tion it has ever been in, with the lat­est achieve­ment be­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Un­der-19 World Cup to take place next year.

Re­cent­ly, the USA U-19 team went un­beat­en in the qual­i­fiers at the Param Veers Sports fa­cil­i­ty to land a po­si­tion at the World Cup. They played un­beat­en in their six games, get­ting wins against arch ri­val Cana­da, Bermu­da and Ar­genti­na.

This suc­cess for the U-19 team came on the back of an im­pres­sive per­for­mance in the West In­dies Ris­ing Stars U-19 tour­na­ment in the Caribbean. The USA was good enough to send two teams, with USA one fin­ish­ing sec­ond to Bar­ba­dos.

Pri­or to this, they had vis­it­ed South Africa to play in their do­mes­tic tour­na­ment, and they went on to win it. They will now go in­to the World Cup look­ing to be very com­pet­i­tive and not be a walkover.

The USA women’s U-19 team has al­so been re­turn­ing their best re­sults and on­ly re­cent­ly de­feat­ed West In­dies U-19 in a se­ries at the St Sir Frank Wor­rell Memo­r­i­al Ground, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sports and Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre (UWI SPEC) in St Au­gus­tine by a 3-2 mar­gin in the six-match se­ries.

Pisike, speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, heaped prais­es on the de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme.

“We have an ex­cel­lent Path­ways pro­gramme and it is clear­ly bear­ing fruit. Every­one in the dif­fer­ent di­vi­sions have been work­ing very hard and we are all proud of what we are see­ing at the youth lev­el,” said Pisike, whose USA Crick­et team in­cludes chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) Johnathan Atkei­son and op­er­a­tions man­ag­er Go­lam Syed.

Ear­li­er this year at the ICC awards, the USA se­nior men’s team won the award for the best dis­play by an As­so­ciate na­tion. This came be­cause of their his­toric vic­to­ry over Pak­istan at the T20 World Cup in New York.

By virtue of their per­for­mances at the last World Cup, they have al­ready qual­i­fied for the next one.

The se­nior team al­so re­cent­ly won the North Amer­i­can Cup in the Cay­man Is­lands. This tour­na­ment, held for the first time, saw teams like USA, Cana­da, Bermu­da and Ba­hamas. The US proved to be a cut above the rest, tak­ing the ti­tle eas­i­ly.

The US has nev­er be­fore seen so much suc­cess at any lev­el and, for USA Crick­et, its au­gurs well for the fu­ture of the game.