By Tony McWatt From July 27 through to August 6, 2022, Canada will be hosting the re-scheduled second round matches for the ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League A involving rival teams from Denmark, Malaysia, Singapore, Vanuatu and Qatar. All matches in the 10-day tournament will be played at King City’s Maple Leaf Cricket Club. …
A Must Win ICC Challenge League A Tournament For Hosts Canada! Read More »
By Tony McWatt, Publisher The 2022 Inaugural Season of the Smart Investments Canadian Friendship Cup was concluded on Friday, June 24 at King City’s Maple Leaf Cricket Club. In what was a most fitting climax to a very well-organized and superbly staged two weeks tournament, the Delhi-Kathmandu Royals fashioned an exciting last –over two-wicket win …
A Wonderfully Successful Inaugural 2022 Smart Investments Canadian Friendship Cup! Read More »
By Tony McWatt Having been discussed and approved at the governing body’s recent Halifax hosted May 7-8 Annual General Meeting, Cricket Canada’s 2022 Events Calendar has now been officially released. The Calendar, which features a lengthy listing of events from mid-June through to December 12, has some very interesting entries. Foremost among the Calendar’s most …
By Tony McWatt As a marked departure from the norm and maybe even as a bit of Canadian cricket history, the cover of this month’s Wickets April 2022 Issue features, for the very first time in the publication’s now almost five years of existence, a politician. The City of Brampton, Ontario’s distinguished Mayor turned Federal …
By Tony McWatt – Publisher The weeks ahead, from now until the end of April and into early May, should prove to be very interesting ones for Canadian cricket administrators. Among the items that will be garnering attention during that period will be the outcomes from Cricket Canada’s most recent Strategic Planning Meeting, Cricket Ontario’s …
Interesting Times Ahead For Canadian Cricket Administrators! Read More »
By Tony McWatt– Publisher Played 5, won 2 lost three. On paper that doesn’t sound too bad of a record for an international cricket team competing in an eight-nation Qualification tournament. Except that the two losses suffered by Team Canada, as holders of that record, effectively resulted in its failure to secure either of the …
By the time this January 2022 Issue of Wickets is published, its forty-second in succession, Canada’s youth cricketers would have returned to their homes following their participation in this year’s Caribbean hosted ICC U19 World Cup. The Canadians lost all three of their St Kitts based Preliminary Round matches. As such they were then relegated …
By Tony McWatt – Publisher Very soon after this Christmas and New Year’s celebrations are over Canada’s National Men’s Junior cricketers will be headed to St Kitts to participate in the 2022 ICC U19 World Cup. The Canadians will be one of sixteen participating teams in the Caribbean-hosted World Cup, which gets underway on January …
Wishing Our U19 Squad All The Very Best For Its 2022 ICC World Cup Glory Quest! Read More »
By Tony McWatt – Publisher The forthcoming 2022 New Year now promises to be a very exciting time for Canada’s Men’s cricketers, at both the junior and senior levels. For the Juniors there will be on the immediate horizon Canada’s participation in the 2022 Caribbean hosted U19 World Cup. The Canadian National Senior team having …
Exciting Times Ahead For Canada’s National Men’s Cricketers! Read More »
Tony McWatt – Publisher This month-end., November 2020, marks the end of the first six months of its two year, twenty-four month, tenure for the Rashpal Bajwa led Cricket Canada Board of Directors. Any objectively fair assessment of the Board’s overall performance during this now completed period would have to label it as having been …
