The June 9 -24, scheduled Ultimate Showdown In Sports, 2023 Canadian Friendship Cup(CFC) has been canceled! Despite the promise of a bigger-than-ever 2023 event with as many as sixteen teams having already registered and after its successful 2022 inaugural season the event;s owners have since decided to pull the plug on the three-week round robin …
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 »
Admittedly any description including the word “Kid” might not be the most accurate for the soon-to-be thirtyfour- year-old Srimantha Wijeyeratne. Comeback, however, definitely applies for Canada’s now-incumbent wicketkeeper batsman who has returned to international cricket having previously announced his retirement in 2021. Since his return, “Wijers” as he’s fondly known by many of his teammates, …
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Canada’s Men’s National cricket team got its Namibia-hosted ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) Qualifier Playoff campaign off to a most positive start with an eventually comfortable 31-run victory over Jersey. At one stage of the proceedings though, Jersey chasing Canada’s modestly set first strike 50 0vers total of 238/8 seemed, however, to be very much …
Canada Starts CWC Qualifier Playoff On Perfect Note With Win Over Jersey! Read More »
Buoyed by their CWC Qualifier Playoff March 27, 2023, opening match win against Jersey, Canada’s National Men’s cricketers went a step further two days later with a morale-boosting 26run victory over their USA arch-rivals. Dismissed for an inadequate first-strike total of 198 in 49.4 overs, Canada’s bowling unit, however, came to the fore in defending …
FOLLOWING several forfeitures in the 2022 season, and the overwhelming number of teams applying for entrance in the 2023 season, the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) will be taking stern measures to avoid such occurrences. Among the new measures are, teams that default more than two games during the season will be penalized an administration fee …
Having made his List A debut for Canada during the 2018-19 Caribbean Regional Super50 Tournament, Harsh Thaker’s cricket has most impressively developed further to him now being regarded as the main man in the middle of the Canadian National Men’s team’s batting order. The native born Thaker, who will celebrate just his 25th Birthday this …
51, 84, 109*,0, 1, 89, 68. Those were Aaron Johnson’s recorded scores for his seven crease appearances during the recently concluded four-nation Desert Cup 2022 T20I Championship that was played in Oman from November 14-21. Johnson’s seven innings aggregate for the tournament was an impressive 402 runs. His average at 67.00 was simply staggering in …
Aaron Johnson: Desert Cup Player Of The Tournament! Read More »
ALTHOUGH buoyed by the success of the 2022 season, executives of the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA), led by dynamic President Shiv Persaud, feel strongly that the growth of the association over the years has been stymied by the lack of available cricket fields to accommodate the demand of the game in Scarborough. An obviously disillusioned …
SCA’s Growth Being Stymied By Lack Of Availabe Cricket Fields! Read More »
The Ontario Cricket Academy (OCA) will be making two international tours, visiting 3 countries. In March 2023, during Canada’s schooling Spring Break the U19’s will travel to UAE and Sri Lanka and during the East Holidays in April 2023, the U16’s will travel to Trinidad & Tobago. These tours will mark the 16th and 17th …
