Jasdeep "Jessy" Singh (born February 10, 1993) is an American
cricket
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er who made his debut for the
U.S. national side in May 2015. He is a right-arm medium-pace
bowler who bats right-handed.
[Players / United States of America / Jessy Singh]
– ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
Personal life
Singh was born in
Queens
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, New York, to
Indian Punjabi parents. He and his family moved to India when he was three years old, but when he was 13 they returned back to the United States and settled in
New Jersey
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Domestic and franchise career
Singh took a hat-trick
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Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three Wick ...
for a Cricket League of New Jersey representative side against Minnesota in 2012. He has also played for clubs in New York City
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. At the 2014 National Championships in Florida, which was played between eight regional sides, he played for the Central West Region team, which primarily draws its players from leagues in Texas
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.
Singh made his first-class debut for Kalutara Physical Culture Club in Sri Lanka's Premier League Tournament Tier B on 21 December 2016, against Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club Coach_ Thisera Captain _ Chaninda Bandara
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. He made his List A
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debut for ICC Americas
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in the 2016–17 Regional Super50
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Ten teams pa ...
on 26 January 2017.2019 Global T20 Canada
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tournament. However, in July 2019, Singh withdrew from the Global T20 Canada tournament, after signing a 12-month central contract with USA Cricket
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.
In July 2020, he was named in the Guyana Amazon Warriors
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The team plays home games at Provi ...
squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League
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. In June 2021, he was selected to take part in the Minor League Cricket
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tournament in the United States following the players' draft.
International career
Singh was called into the national squad in April 2015, for the 2015 Americas Twenty20 Championship the following month. He was one of only four American-born players in the team, the others being Akeem Dodson, Hammad Shahid, and Steven Taylor. However, at the tournament he featured in only one match, taking 0/15 opening the bowling with Muhammad Ghous
Muhammad Asad Ghous (born April 14, 1990) is an American cricketer of Pakistani American, Pakistani origin who plays for the United States national cricket team.
Ghous was part of the US team at the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in the UAE in ...
. Singh was retained in the U.S. squad for the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier
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in Ireland and Scotland, and went on to make his Twenty20
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debut in the opening match of the tournament against Nepal
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.
In February 2019, he was named in the United States' Twenty20 International
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(T20I) squad for their series against the United Arab Emirates. The matches were the first T20I fixtures to be played by the United States cricket team. He made his T20I debut for the United States against the United Arab Emirates
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on 15 March 2019.
In April 2019, he was named in the United States cricket team's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two
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tournament in Namibia. The United States finished in the top four places in the tournament, therefore gaining One Day International
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(ODI) status. Singh made his ODI debut for the United States on 27 April 2019, against Papua New Guinea
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, in the tournament's third-place playoff.United States cricket team
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, ahead of the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament in Bermuda. In August 2019, he was named in the final squad for the tournament. In November 2019, he was named in the United States' squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50
The 2019–20 Regional Super50 was the 46th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 6 November 2019, with the final taking pla ...
tournament.
References
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1993 births
Living people
American sportspeople of Indian descent
American people of Punjabi descent
Sportspeople from Queens, New York
American Sikhs
Cricketers from New York City
American cricketers
Kalutara Physical Culture Centre cricketers
ICC Americas cricketers
United States One Day International cricketers
21st-century American sportsmen
United States Twenty20 International cricketers