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Following their successful World Cup campaign, USA Cricket has revealed significant roster changes for its ODI and T20I tours of the Netherlands. Without Saurabh Netravalkar, the T20 World Cup’s breakthrough sensation, the USA are scheduled to play in the Netherlands. Parental leave has been granted to the former captain after the birth of his first kid. For the ODI portion of the tour, another American prodigy, wicketkeeper-batsman Andries Gous, has also been given parental leave.
In addition to Netravalkar, the selection committee altered the USA’s T20 World Cup roster by up to four spots. The selection panel did not show any favors to Corey Anderson despite his ‘lackluster’ and mediocre performance with the bat. In the recently finished Major League Cricket (MLC) versus MI New York, the powerful left-hander returned to form with a match-winning 59*. However, by sticking further down the order, he had fewer options to force his selection.
Nisarg Patel, an all-rounder with a left-arm spin who was benched the whole World Cup, is the only player from the United States to be shown the door. After Nisarg is removed, the selectors can now break the one-dimensionality of the USA spin attack with the help of wrist spinner Yasir Mohammad, who has already played for the USA in two Twenty20 Internationals.
After a dismal run of results in his brief T20I career, middle-order batsman Milind Kumar was cut from the team; nevertheless, he was added to the ODI squad, supposedly because of a LIST. forty-three on average back in India. Shadley Van Schalkwyk, a 36-year-old fast-bowling all-rounder, has also been dropped from the T20I team but is making his debut in the ODI format for the United States.
Despite being well-established in the USA’s ODI squad, youthful opening batter Sai Teja Mukkamalla was still trusted by the selectors. He was included in the T20I squad. After scoring an undefeated hundred in a chase match against the United Arab Emirates in 2022, Mukkamalla took centre stage. However, considering the two players’ recent successes in senior cricket, it is very puzzling that 17-year-old USA U19 batsman Utkarsh Srivastava was chosen for both white ball forms over players like Sanjay Krishnamurthy and Ali Sheikh, both of whom are left-field options. Krishnamurthy recently turned heads for the Unicorns in the MLC with an incredible 79* off 42 deliveries.
The future of US residents residing overseas, such as Cameron Gannon and Brody Couch, is uncertain since USA Cricket chairman Venu Pisike stated that “they need to have a clear policy” and that “they have started discussing this to have a policy and criteria in place for selection.”