MCA Guest Player, Motown Captain Kashif Akhtar is 2010 Forty-overs MVP

At the Michigan Cricket Association awards ceremony (Troy Community Center, 3179 Livernois Road, Troy, from 3 to 6pm, Saturday, 19 February) MCA’s most regular guest player, Kashif Akhtar, who is also captain of Motown Cricket Club, for whom many MCA members have played in recent years, will be recognized as the MVP of last year’s forty-over tournament. He was also last year’s top bowler (when, it will be remembered, he bowled both right-arm and left-arm), and he tops the career fielding list. Moreover, he is third on the all-time batting list, and second on the all-time bowling list.

MCA offers Kashif heartfelt congratulations on these splendid achievements.

Film on Afghan Cricket Team to be Shown at UM, 5 April

Out of the Ashes, a film that follows the rise of the Afghan cricket team from Division V of the World Cricket League to ODI status – a meteoric rise followed with great interest by neutral fans all over the world – will be shown at the University of Michigan, as part of the University’s International Institute’s “Afghanistan Series”. The film showing, which is free and open to the general public, will be at 7 pm, on Tuesday, 5 April, in room 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 South University Ave., Ann Arbor.

University of Michigan International Institute Program: Afghanistan 2011 — Connections, Communities, Crises

 

MichCA Awards Ceremony, Saturday, 19th February

 

The Michigan Cricket Association will mark its tenth anniversary on Saturday, 19^th February, with a celebratory ceremony at Troy Community Center, 3179 Livernois Road, Troy, from 3 to 6pm. All local cricketers and their families are invited. Among the events, winners and runners-up of last season’s tournaments will be recognized, awards for individual performances will be made, and players who represented the region will be recognized. MCA, as runner up in the National Collegiate Cricket Cup, will be among the awardees,  and MCA players who represented C.E.R. in last year’s national tournaments will be recognized.  MCA regular guest player Kashif Akhtar will also be recognized in multiple categories, including MVP of last year’s Forty-over tournament.

Event Flyer

Forty-overs Tournament Awards, 2010

Twenty-overs Tournament Awards, 2010 

Forty-overs Tournament, Career Awards

Twenty-overs Tournament Career Awards

All-time Top Five, Forty-overs Tournament

All-time Top Five, Twenty-overs Tournament