Jasdeep "Jessy" Singh (born February 10, 1993) is an American
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
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]
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Personal life
Singh was born in
Queens
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, New York, to
Punjabi parents. He and his family moved back to India when he was three years old, but when he was 13 they returned to the United States and settled in
New Jersey
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.
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Domestic and franchise career
Singh took a hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
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
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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
The 2016–17 Regional Super50 was the 43rd edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was held in Antigua and Barbuda.
Ten teams pa ...
on 26 January 2017.2018–19 Regional Super50
The 2018–19 Regional Super50 was the 45th edition of the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the Cricket West Indies (CWI). The tournament started on 3 October 2018. The players' draft for the ...
tournament in the West Indies.
In June 2019, he was selected to play for the Toronto Nationals franchise team in the 2019 Global T20 Canada
The 2019 Global T20 Canada was the second edition of the Global T20 Canada, a 20-over professional cricket tournament, played at the CAA Centre, Brampton, Ontario. It started on 25 July 2019, and concluded with the final on 11 August 2019. It ...
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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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
Hammad Shahid (born December 7, 1991) is an American cricketer who made his debut for the United States national cricket team in November 2012. A right-arm fast bowler who bats right-handed, he earlier appeared for the national under-19 side at ...
, 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 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 March 2012. In Jun ...
. Singh was retained in the U.S. squad for the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland and Scotland, and went on to make his Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
debut in the opening match of the tournament against Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
.
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
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
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 cricketers
American sportspeople of Indian descent
American people of Punjabi descent
Sportspeople from Queens, New York
American Sikhs
Cricketers from New York City
Kalutara Physical Culture Centre cricketers
ICC Americas cricketers
United States One Day International cricketers
United States Twenty20 International cricketers