Steven Taylor to captain USA U-19s in Canada

USA senior team wicketkeeper-batsman Steven Taylor has been named the Under-19 captain of a 14-player squad set to travel to Canada next month for the 2013 ICC Americas U-19 Division One tournament.

Taylor made headlines in March when he became the first USA senior team batsman to score a century in Twenty20s, doing it off 61 balls against Bermuda, and was the leading scorer at ICC WCL Division Three in May, where he made 162 off 102 against eventual Division Three champions Nepal.

Taylor first represented the USA U-19 team as a 15-year-old in 2009 and was one of the youngest players at the 2010 ICC U-19 World Cup, where he scored a half-century in the group stage against Ireland. At the 2011 ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier in Ireland, he set a USA U-19 record with 140 off 120 balls against Papua New Guinea and was tied for second overall in the tournament with 455 runs at 56.87 including two centuries.