- Chuckworthy
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A sucker for cricket, Chuckworthy vividly remembers wondering why his wimpy friends couldn’t man up to a little bit of heat in exchange for a fantastic few hours of cricket in the dusty bowls of hot and humid Chennai. “Romba heatu, daa!” (Too hot, dude!) or “Amma says skin will become black” were the annoying responses he’d get. Two decades later, a cushy IBM job, and the early trappings of a suburban-yuppie-double-income-no-kids-lifestyle, had taken hold. It was no match for cricket, though Chuckworthy occasionally exchanges his white IBM “bunny suit” for a black-and-white umpire's outfit. Join him as he handles the uneven bounce while enjoying the unbridled joys of the US cricket landscape.
- Peter Della Penna
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Peter Della Penna is an Italian-American born in New York and raised in the suburbs of New Jersey. He believes that life did not truly begin for him until July 22, 2005, when he arrived in Australia for the first time and picked up a copy of the Sydney Morning Herald with the front-page headline "Bloody hell - These Poms Mean Business." Two months later he had committed himself to worshipping Shane Warne for life. The fact that Warney no longer plays for Australia means that Della Penna is free to work as a journalist covering US cricket for DreamCricket.com and ESPNcricinfo. He also plays club cricket, where he usually spends the lunch break trying to explain to the opposition, and any new team-mates, that he honestly is not from, or related to anyone from, Australia, England, New Zealand or South Africa.
- Samarth Shah
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Samarth Shah was born in Ahmedabad and raised in Chennai, where he played inter-school, inter-college, and TNCA league cricket. He migrated to the USA in 1998. He is a code monkey by day and a cricket fanatic day and night. He is married and lives in Seattle.
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