About ARCL
Founded in late 2001, American Recreational Cricket League (ARCL) is one of the earliest cricket leagues
established in the Northwest. As the goal was recreational cricket, several non-stringent rules of the international
version were introduced. Some of them being, the cricket ball was substituted by a hard tennis ball, only 8 players formed
a team instead of the traditional 11, LBWs did not result in a loss in wickets.
Just 3 years after its inception, ARCL introduced a women's tennis ball cricket division, making it the
first and only league in the country to have a Women’s league.
In a period of 4 years, ARCL expanded from a single division of men's cricket to five such divisions, with
teams promoted and demoted based on performance. ARCL today proudly boasts of a total of 47 teams in the ongoing 2006
Winter league.
In spite of the large number of teams, every team is given an opportunity to play a game once every week
or two, at the most. ARCL organizes games all over the suburbs of Seattle on different grounds.
Founded by 4 members -- Kal Raman, Mohammad Ilyas, Govi Bacthavachalu and Viknarajesh Shanmugasundaram,
this league has come a long way in attaining the maturity and professionalism of some of the well known leagues
in the country. It is now coordinated by several members from playing teams (April Bricker, Debbie Furtado, Faisal Baqai, Ghazni Ahmed,
Ilyas Mohammad, Prakash Mamidi, Priya Ghate, Salman Zafar and Yogita Manghnani).
ARCL's mission is to promote the spirit of fun in the face of healthy competition through the game of Cricket.
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