I want to play cricket in college as I play for a local adult cricket league. I was wondering if they play cricket in college and if they do what colleges do.
Thanks
To my knowledge, the only US school with an official varsity cricket team is Haverford College, a small liberal arts college in Philadelphia.
http://haverfordathletics.com/sports/cricket/index
However, a number of schools have unofficial student-run cricket clubs. There is an organization called “American College Cricket” which recently recognized cricket clubs at the following US and Canadian schools:
If you click on “Universities” in the link above, you will get an even longer list which includes other school clubs that were not selected for the championship.
Yup, Haverford.
So, how exactly does this work?
Does Haverford play themselves for the national varsity championship every year ?
Oklahoma State had a cricket invasion years back. No one could figure out what was going on. Took days to clean up.
Haverford schedule for their coed team:
http://www.haverfordathletics.com/sports/cricket/2016-17/schedule
The western suburbs of Philadelphia (which are quite old and affluent) have historically maintained an interest in cricket. There are a number of private cricket clubs in the area that Haverford competes against.
There were national college cricket champions between 1881 and 1924. Most of the championships were won or shared by Haverford or Penn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_sports_team_champions#Cricket
So the colleges in the American College Cricket compete with each other? @Corbett
Apparently so. You can see the results of some current matches here:
https://www.crichq.com/#competitions/312/draws/25954/rounds
Note that US college cricket teams are all informal and unofficial (except for Haverford’s). This isn’t like NCAA football or basketball. In general, American college cricket clubs probably get little or no funding or support from their schools; they may not even have a field on campus. The amount of interest in the club probably varies from school to school; I wouldn’t be surprised if cricket clubs appear and disappear frequently. If you are interested in a particular school, I would check to make sure that they have a strong club that is not likely to disappear.
I don’t want to be guilty of ethnic stereotyping, but there may be some reason to suspect that American College Cricket is particularly popular with students of South Asian descent
https://www.crichq.com/#competitions/312/draws/25954/leaderboards/batting
Not surprising considering India has by far the largest population of the cricket playing countries.
I am Indian 
@doschicos @Corbett
If you are looking for a real team, then take a look at Haverford. It’s a real varsity sport there and they even have a dedicated cricket field and house. If you prefer club it looks like there are many options out there, but understand that clubs come and go depending on the interest of the current students.
I would have loved to go to Haverford, but my parents are stereotypical Indian parents and want me to go to a good school so I was wondering which colleges had good cricket programs I guess @MamaBear16
Haverford is a very good school, and not one that is easy to get into. If your parents only care about prestige/Ivies then just apply to places they like and see if they have a club team. You also might want to figure out if you are competitive applicant. And make sure you have some safeties, too.
Ok thank you so much @MamaBear16
Just out of curiosity, what do your parents think is a “good school” ?
Maybe Berkeley ? Michigan ? Texas ? Georgia Tech ? Cornell ?
If so, take a look at the test scores for those schools and see how they compare to Haverford’s.
All the schools you listed above are considered good schools. Basically top schools in rankings are considered best for my parents @Corbett
Haverford ranks higher than those schools listed by Corbett. Just saying…
The point is that Haverford matches or outperforms all of those schools, at least in terms of test scores. So maybe Haverford deserves to be considered a “good school” too. And they’ve definitely been playing cricket longer – since the 1850s.