Both Canadian teams that played on the opening day of the 2019 American College Cricket Nationals (March 13) won a game. Humber College beat Northeastern Huskies by 7 wickets while Ryerson College recovered from a 15-run loss against University of Alabama in Huntsville to beat Virginia Tech by 91 runs.
Wilfrid Laurier University is in early morning action on day 2 against Humber College and had reached 132 for 3 after 13 overs. Ryerson University also began early today (March 14) against West Virginia. West Virginia lost to Virginia Tech on day 1 and had scored 99 for 2 wickets from 14 overs against Ryerson on Thursday morning.
Krupaskankar Sundararatan top-scored with 36 of from Northeastern’s 102 (20 overs) against Humber College on Wednesday. Umair Ghani picked up 3 wickets for 16 runs in the Northeastern innings. Opening bat Udey Singh struck 41 and combined with Rohan Kundlass (36*) in a second wicket stand of 54 as Humber College cruised to a winning 103/3 after 13.5 overs.
University of Alabama in Huntsville struck 165/7 from 20 overs on Wednesday morning against Ryerson College. Vaibhav Gohil lead with 62. Three Ryerson bowlers each took 2 wickets. Ahmed Ali took 2/15 from 4 overs; Meet Shah took 2/24 from 4 overs and Kartik Desai took 2 for 26 from 4 overs. Number four bat Jean-Paul Rocke 34 with (32 balls) and number 6 bat Richard Perkins 47 (33 balls) lead the Ryerson recovery with a stand of 51 for the 5th wicket. Kartik Desai made 22 and number 10 bat Ahmed Ali picked up 14* but Ryerson ended on 150 all out (19.1 overs) in a 15-run defeat.
Ryerson struck 215 for 8 from 20 overs later on Wednesday against Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech score seemed stuck overnight on 50 for 2 from 5.4 overs but has now been updated to 124 all out. Kartik Desai took 3 for 16 from 4 overs and Talha Kirmani 3/30 from 3.5 overs. Ryerson captain and opening bat Anees Saeed struck 105 from 54 balls and took part in a fifth wicket stand of 75 with Jamison Franco, who went on to reach 58*. So Ryerson won that game by 91 runs.