ECCC Chairman Ali inducted into USA Cricket Hall of Fame

Oct 26, 2019 Sports

Chairman of the East Coast Cricket Committee (ECCC), Ashmul Ali was recently inducted into the USA Cricket Hall of Fame. Mr. Ali, who presently resides at Ogle, had migrated to USA in 1978 where he began playing for Everest Cricket Club in the Long Island Cricket League and then the Queens County Cricket League.

Ashmul Ali

He won the LICC batting champion title that year in the New York Cricket League and scored 19 centuries in three seasons, thereafter. In 1983, Ali left the limelight of LICC and took Rangers/Cosmos under his wings, and after four years in the Commonwealth Cricket League, he transformed Taff High School into a formidable cricket team, thus winning championship title in the Metropolitan Cricket League.
Amongst his long list of achievements in USA, Mr. Ali was the Captain and Public Relations Officer of Cosmos for more than two decades, the team spanned the USA, Canada, England, India and the Caribbean.
In his three decades of service to the game in the USA, Ali has earned his stripes; he scored 865 runs, one of the highest in a MCL season. He is often referred to as the best Captain of the MCL team in its heyday. He served as Coach of the MCL U-25 team.
For Cosmos, he has accumulated 14,310 runs with an average of 40.70, which included 18 centuries and 73 fifties and took 390 wickets at an average of 17.20. He represented the United States against the visiting World XI at Shea Stadium in 1979, a selected New York XI against the 1983 India World Cup team at Mt. Vernon in 1983, the New York All Star team against a visiting Pakistan team at Flushing in 1987, and the touring MCC team.
He was also a member of the US team which toured Antigua and also played against Canada in Freeport, Bahamas. He served as Coach of the New York Region U-25 team tour to California in 2000 and in 2008 as Coach of the NYR U-15 team to California.
Ali has an eye for talent, and in retirement he continues to impart his knowledge of the game to the younger generation as Coach and President of his beloved Ogle Cricket Club in Guyana – a place where he had spent his formative years.
In retirement he has chosen to impart much of the value, discipline, and enjoyment which the game had given to him. Mr. Ashmul Ali is the Chairman of the East Coast Cricket Committee whose primary objective is promoting cricket on the East Coast of Demerara.
Mr. Ali now joins Mr. Rudy Persaud of Enmore who was inducted last year. The executives of ECCC hereby congratulate Mr. Ali on his induction to the USA Cricket Hall of Fame.

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