Team Canada’s Squad to participate in the Dubai hosted ICC MEN’S T20 WC QUALIFIER from October 11 – November 2, 2019 has been announced. Team Canada will be captained by Navneet Dhaliwal and coached by Interim Head Coach Ingleton Liburd.
Team: Canada’s Squad is as follows:
Name | Playing Role | Province | |
1 | Navneet Dhaliwal – Captain | RHB/RMF | Ontario |
2 | Abraash Khan | RHB/RMF | Ontario |
3 | Dilon Heyliger | RMF/RHB | Ontario |
4 | Hamza Tariq | WK/BAT | Alberta |
5 | Jeremy Gordon | RMF | Ontario |
6 | Junaid Siddiqui | RLG | Ontario |
7 | Nicholas Kirton | LHB/ROS | Ontario |
8 | Nikhil Dutta | ROS/RHB | Ontario |
9 | Nitish Kumar | RHB/ROS | Ontario |
10 | Ravinderpal Singh | RHB | British Columbia |
11 | Rizwan Cheema | RHB | Ontario |
12 | Rodrigo Thomas | LHB | Ontario |
13 | Romesh Eranga | LMF | Alberta |
14 | Saad Zafar | LOS/LHB | Ontario |
15 | Srimantha Wijeyeratne | WK/BAT | Ontario |
Management Staff
Mike Sharma – Manager
Ingleton Liburd – Head Coach
Team Canada will play its Preliminary Round matches in the Tournament’s Group B against Jersey, Nigeria, Ireland. Hong Kong, Oman and the hosts United Arab Emirates. Group A’s matches will involve the representative teams of Papua New Guinea. Netherlands. Singapore, Scotland, Kenya. Bermuda and Namibia. The Tournament’s top six teams will qualify for next year’s ICC T20 World Cup in Australia.
Canada’s Preliminary Round matches will be on October 20 vs Jersey, October 21 vs Nigeria; October 23 vs Ireland; October 24 vs Hong Kong; October 25 vs Oman and on October 27 vs United Arab Emirates.