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 …
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 T20 …
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 league …
The OSCL T20 Regular season kickstarted May 27, 2023. The tournament will be played from May 27, 2023, to August 27, 2023. The OSCL format has changed for the 2023 season Across Division A and Division B. Each team in Division A will play each other twice and the teams in Division B will play …
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, …
Srimantha Wijeyeratne: Canadian Cricket’s Comeback “Kid!” Read More »
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 …
