Harmeet – The exhilaration of defeating Pakistan and making it to the T20 World Cup 2024 Super Eight has finally subsided. The USA’s World Cup campaign came to an end in Barbados with two crushing losses on a sluggish surface. Although teams are now inherently better equipped to play the USA, hitters accustomed to indoor conditioning may find it difficult to rapidly adapt to a slower pitch. They got off to respectable starts in the powerplay in both of these games before unraveling in the middle overs.
The USA all-rounder Harmeet Singh also believes that the team has to upgrade their outside facilities if they hope to progress between now and the next T20 World Cup in India in 2026, for which they have automatically qualified.

“For the whole group, we just need infrastructure to practise better, to train better,” Harmeet stated. “The entire system must be in place. Our trainers must be available to work with us year-round, even from a distance. Every state in England, Australia, and other countries has amazing infrastructure. Being indoors is not beneficial. More outdoor setups and top-notch training facilities are what we require.
Stadiums are approaching, but the immediate objective should be to construct a large amount of training facilities for players so that our bench strength increases and the entire cricket community benefits from improved training. Franchise cricket will benefit four, five, or six players who could participate, but a lot more infrastructure is required to create a cricket-playing nation.”
Because of the nature of the game, associate teams are unable to play as much cricket as is necessary to improve. Playing straight in tournaments may become a vicious cycle that results in lackluster outcomes, which then fuels requests for smaller World Cups. The USA aren’t currently a big enough commercial attraction to be able to play often against bigger opponents.

Harmeet, though, thinks that cricket has expanded outside the Asian diaspora in the last month or two, which makes it even more critical for the USA to leverage the present momentum with the appropriate infrastructure.
“The cricketing community is large, especially in Texas where I come from, or New Jersey as well,” Harmeet stated. “Cricket is a popular sport in Seattle. There’s cricket everywhere, on the west coast and across the state of California. Simply said, there aren’t enough grass practice areas available everywhere. All the children are practicing indoors.
Assuming I was a professional cricket player [before to coming to the US], I could transition between indoor and outdoor environments. I am aware of the variations. Children who practice indoors go right outside to play on grass fields where there are no feet at all. All of that must therefore alter, and ideally very soon we will have far more practice facilities than simply construction sites. Travel to India or any other country that plays cricket; we have an abundance of practice fields. Every academy is outside, and you only go inside when it starts to rain.
“I know parents that invest a lot of money in their children’s training, but the issue is that when you only practice indoors, the growth is average and not very significant. The youngsters then notice the heat when they walk outside. “Oh, it’s really hot.” It is anticipated to be warm.
However, the United States needs to capture this momentum wave at both the grassroots and the highest levels. “There’s a lot to learn and everybody has come a long way from where we started,” Harmeet added. “There is also a great deal of confidence in the team that we have faced off against the finest. We really did push them to the limit when we were performing at our best. Thus, I believe there is a great deal to learn.
“Work has to be done now,” he said. Not later; the mental labor begins right now. We must consider our strategy for the 2026 World Cup. And from this point on, the path must involve both our own hard effort and USA Cricket’s generous provision of several games and training chances. Then [for those who can] franchise cricket. and then using that training to the 2026 World Cup to get the greatest outcome.”
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