The countdown to the cessation of Wickets published monthly Issues has started. This May Issue will be the first of the magazine’s three remaining Issues, with June and July to follow as the second and final respectively. Reflecting on my role as Wickets’ founder, publisher and chief writer for the past now almost five years …
Former Canadian National Women’s cricketer Monali Patel has been accredited as an ICC Coach Master Instructor. Monali was of nine new females the ICC has introduced to its network of Coach Master Educators, and who will oversee the development of Tutors and cricket coaches worldwide through its Training and Education programme. The appointments followed a …
Monalu Patel Making Waves As An ICC Master Educator! Read More »
“I wish I could show you my little village of Enmore, where I was born. It’s so lovely there”…says Shiv Persaud, the small-town boy from Guyana who is now the President of the Scarborough Cricket Association. Persaud moved to Canada in his early teens.” The initial years in Canada took some time for me to …
Shiv Persaud: GT Smal Town Bwoy Making It Big in TO! Read More »
MONDAY, May 22 proved to be a historic day in the 32- year history of the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) and it all happened at the Ashtonbee Number Three ground in brilliant sunshine. In what was surely one, if not, the most devastating innings in the SCA, Afghanistan-born international player Munir Ahmad Kakar, gracing the …
Two Tests, three ODIs and five T20Is. That’s the sum total of matches scheduled for India’s 2023 Tour to the Caribbean. Matches that will now likely be of major live spectator viewing interest to the hundreds of thousands of Indian cricket fans now residing in Canada. Considered to be the gem of the Caribbean, and …
Barbados Beckons As India Set For Another Caribbean Tour! Read More »
As the saying goes “all good things must eventually come to an end!” That truism now seems to have become applicable to the publication of Wickets magazine’s monthly online Issues. This April Issue will now most likely mark the commencement of the magazine’s impending publication cessation. The July 2023 edition, the final Issue of this …
11,0, 102, 34 and 66. Those were Pargat Singh’s scores from the five innings he batted during Canada’s failed Namibia ICC World Cup Playoff campaign. Despite the Canadian team having failed in its quest to be one of the tournament’s top two countries progressing to the next, Zimbabwe Qualifier, stage of this year ICC 2023 …
Pargat Singh: Outstanding For Canada In Namibia! Read More »
It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world,” declares Jeremy Gordon, a right-arm fast bowler and a dependable member of the Canadian Cricket team. Gordon was declared Player of the Match in Namibia against Papua New Guinea to win back its ODI status. The team has now triumphantly returned to Canada. …
Billed as the Ultimate Showdown In Sports, the Canadian Friendship Cup(CFC) returns to King City from June 9 – 24, 2023! After its successful 2022 inaugural season this year’s CFC will be bigger than ever before with as many as sixteen teams having already registered to participate in the three-week round robin T20 tournament. A …
Canadian Friendship Cup (CFC) Back For Its Second Season Read More »
A RECORD 110 teams are slated to be in action when the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) 2023 season swings into gear on May 6. This represents an increase of 16 from the 94 which participated in the 2022 edition. Faced with the loss of the Ajax Cricket Ground, which is undergoing complete rehabilitation, the SCA …
