Amer­i­can-based crick­et fran­chise Samp Army has had and con­tin­ues to have a mas­sive in­flu­ence on both West In­di­an and Amer­i­can crick­eters pro­vid­ing them with op­por­tu­ni­ties across the globe.

Samp Army, the brain­child of In­di­an-born busi­ness­man Ritesh Pa­tel, has be­come a house­hold name in many crick­et­ing na­tions where they have played, help­ing in the de­vel­op­ment of crick­eters world­wide.

Samp means uni­ty, ac­cord­ing to Pa­tel, and he has worked tire­less­ly to make it a fac­tor in the crick­et­ing land­scape. 

In Amer­i­ca, Samp Army par­tic­i­pates in ma­jor tour­na­ments like the At­lanta Open, Hous­ton Open and US Open. The biggest tour­na­ment that they have com­pet­ed in is the very pop­u­lar Abu Dhabi T10 where the likes of Faf du Plessis, Mooen Ali and Ja­son Hold­er have fea­tured for them.

Samp has al­so made an im­print in In­dia where they are reg­u­lars in the APL (Anand Pre­mier League). Ne­go­ti­a­tions are al­so on the way to have a T10 league in In­dia owned by the Samp Group.

Samp has al­so made an en­try in­to Africa where they are in­volved with the Zim Afo League as well.

Not to be left out, Samp Army has al­so made sig­nif­i­cant strides in the West In­dies by hav­ing the fran­chise in­volved in the Trinidad Dream II, the To­ba­go Dream II and the Chief Sec T20 in Rox­bor­ough.

Some of the Caribbean crick­eters who have ben­e­fit­ed from get­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties with Samp Army are Hold­er, John­son Charles, Kevin Stoute, Johnathan Carter, Shel­don Cot­trell, Chan­dra­paul Hem­raj, Jesse Bootan, Liam Mam­chan, Navin Stew­art, Mbe­ki Joseph, Kirstan Kallicha­ran, Jon Russ Jagges­sar, Jonathan Foo and Leonar­do Julien. 

Samp Army is al­so in charge of the Amer­i­can US Mas­ters, where sev­er­al for­mer play­ers from the West In­dies al­so take part.

Ac­cord­ing to Pa­tel, talks are on the way to bring some­thing spe­cial to the Caribbean which will be re­vealed in due course.