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Women’s Twenty20 cricket is on course to be among three additional sports featuring at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Organisers have also proposed including beach volleyball and Para-table tennis on the programme. All three sports have been approved by the executive board of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). Shooting and archery have missed out, having …

Women’s T20 Cricket Nominated For Commonwealth Games 2022 Inclusion! Read More »

As cricketers are well aware, the game is deceiving. The intermittent, unpredictable nature of the sport, presents the greatest challenge to the cricketer in staying injury-free. From doing very little activity to having to explode quickly, the physical demands of the sport present great stresses to a player. The body is better suited to constant, …

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By virtue of their June 25, 64 runs win over arch rivals England, Australia has secured its place as four semi-finalists in the 2019 ICC World Cup, which is currently under way in England and Wales. The England encounter was Australia’s seventh of its scheduled nine match campaign. The Aussies have to date accumulated 12 …

ICC World Cup 2019: Australia Through To Semis, Remaining Three Spots Still Up For Grabs. Read More »

Born April 16 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada’s Arslan Sher Khan has made an impressive rise up the batting rankings in both Canadian Youth Cricket and the ICC U19 World Cup levels within the past 5 years. Until he turned 20 in April of this year, he was ranked as one of Canada’s top U19 …

Arslan Khan On Track To A Very Bright Canadian Cricket Future! Read More »

The Canadian Women’s cricketers quest to qualify for the both ICC’s T20 and 50 Over World Cups 2020 ended in absolute dismay as they were convincingly defeated in each and every one of the games played as part of their May 17-19 3 match Americas Region Qualifiers Series against their US opponents. The US won …

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Based in Mississauga, the Ontario Cricket Academy program was founded in 2003 by Derek Perera. The academy program became the flagship of the Ontario Cricket Development Organization.  By 2004, the OCA had become the very first cricket academy in North America to run programs in a dedicated indoor facility for the purpose of training players throughout the …

Ontario Cricket Academy Shaping Bright Futures Read More »

Canada’s very high hopes of regaining ICC Official One Day International (ODI) status were dashed by the national Men’s team disappointing performances in the Namibia hosted Division Two Qualification Tournament. Canada eventually finished fifth, failing by just four runs, on aggregate run rate to secure a fourth place finish that would have secured the coveted …

Canada’s Namibia Misadventure. Read More »