Trustee names three independent directors to steer USA Cricket out of bankruptcy

The appointments are part of a reorganisation plan filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The wider restructuring is supported by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE), the owners of Major League Cricket. ACE has also committed further financing of up to about $3.1 million to keep USA Cricket running while its ICC funding is unavailable during the suspension.

The ICC and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) observed the selection process. Under the plan, the three directors would take office automatically once the reorganisation becomes effective. At that moment the terms of every existing USA Cricket director would end. The outgoing board has been marked by long internal divisions and administrative failures. The trustee has asked for a confirmation hearing around January 15, 2027, and no later than January 22. The financing terms require a confirmation order by January 29. If the court approves the plan and its conditions are met, the new board could be in control early next year.

The three directors bring backgrounds from outside traditional American cricket administration. Kaing has more than 20 years of experience in technology and corporate roles, including executive positions at Google, Marvell, Disney and Nestlé. In Olympic sport, she has chaired the US Fencing Foundation's Board of Trustees and served as vice-president and board adviser at USA Fencing. Singleton is a three-time Olympian from Bermuda. He sat on the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission from 2016 to 2020 and has held executive roles with the World Olympians Association. He also has a direct link to the sport, having played amateur cricket for Bermuda's Southampton Rangers. Wain was chief of business and legal affairs and general counsel at USA Track & Field from 2010 to 2024.

The directors would serve three-year terms. The amended constitution gives them substantial authority until ICC membership is restored. USA Cricket's membership elections have repeatedly produced factional disputes and challenges to the board's legitimacy, and this structure appears designed to shield the body from those contests. The constitution eventually provides for a board of nine to eleven directors, with athlete representatives holding at least 33.3 percent of the voting power. Because the transitional board's powers are tied to reinstatement rather than to a fixed election date, USA Cricket could reach the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics without another general membership election. The documents neither forbid elections before LA28 nor set a timeline for a return to elected governance.

The ICC has a difficult history with American cricket administration. USA Cricket's predecessor, the United States of America Cricket Association, was suspended three times between 2005 and 2015 and expelled in 2017. USA Cricket was created to replace it but ran into similar governance problems and was itself suspended in September 2025. Cricket returns to the Olympics in Los Angeles after more than a century, which adds to the pressure for stable administration.

The new board would have three immediate priorities: regaining ICC membership, agreeing a definitive long-form commercial deal with ACE, and meeting the governance standards needed for USOPC recognition as a national governing body. The commercial deal matters because the failure of the Pisike-led faction and ACE to agree one was among the main causes of years of friction before the bankruptcy. The plan requires the board to work in good faith with ACE on an agreement consistent with the 2019 Term Sheet. That agreement must also address concerns the ICC has previously raised.

ACE's supplemental facility comes on top of the financing agreed in the July settlement. It covers operating expenses and working capital. Its provisions extend beyond the Olympics into 2029, which allows for the possibility that reinstatement takes longer than hoped. The plan also requires the reorganised body to send ACE monthly written updates on its efforts to rejoin the ICC, including significant communications with the ICC and USOPC.

The governance crisis comes at a time of progress on the field and in the professional game. The national team won World Cup League 2 after a three-year campaign. The Los Angeles Knight Riders have built a venue in Pomona that is due to host Olympic cricket in 2028. Washington Freedom have broken ground on a privately funded, 10,000-capacity stadium in Frederick, Maryland. The November plan is the most detailed route yet to USA Cricket's recovery. Its success will depend on whether the new leadership can rebuild trust with ACE and give the governing body lasting stability.