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CRICKET CANADA ANNOUNCES GUS LOGIE

Fri, 06/29/2012

Cricket Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Augustine “Gus” Logie as the new head coach of Canada’s Men’s national team.

The diminutive Trinidadian made 52 test appearances and played in 158 ODI’s for a star-studded and dominant West Indies team of the 1980’s as a batsmen and equally strong fielder.

This will be Logie’s second tenure with Cricket Canada having previously coached the national team during the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa where Canada registered its first World Cup win with a crushing 60 run margin of victory over Bangladesh at Durban.

Since that time, Gus has held head coaching positions with the West Indies winning the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy in England, with Bermuda from 2007-2009 including an appearance in the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, and since 2010 with the Jamaican Cricket Association.

Gus was appreciative of the opportunity to again coach Canada and had the following comments:

"Many thanks to Cricket Canada for giving me the opportunity to work with the many talentedplayers within the Canadian system. Our vision is to produce in Canada a "Championship Team" with technical skill and the mental and tactical awareness to compete at the highest level by developing the mind to win, the will to succeed, and the confidence to make it happen”.

Cricket Canada Vice President and High Performance Manager, Vimal Hardat was optimistic about the appointment and provided the following comments:

“Gus is a true champion, who has a habit of winning as a member of the champion West Indies team in 80s and as a coach, by leading West Indies to the 2004 Champions Trophy.
We have huge confidence in Gus and his coaching capabilities. He comes in with great knowledge and we will give him time to settle in with his ideas to help us achieve the target of being a leading associate country.”

Logie will assume his role for Canada’s upcoming ICC Intercontinental Cup and Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Championship series versus Scotland from July 4th – 11th near Glasgow and Edinburgh.

CRICKET CANADA ANNOUNCES U18 SQUAD

Sun, 06/24/2012

With the change in age restrictions from U17 to U18 for the ICC Americas Regional tournament in Florida from July 8th - 15th, Cricket Canada is pleased to announce its revised representative national U18 squad.

1. Sudeepta Aurka (Captain) - Alberta

2. Armann Kapoor - Ontario

3. Nikhil Dutta - Ontario

4. Stephan Joseph - Ontario

5. Siddhanth Shekhar - Ontario

6. Argun Parikh - Ontario

7. Abrash Khan - Ontario

8. Amanpal Gillar - British Columbia

9. Prushoth Wijayaraj - Ontario

10. Gurkaran Dhillon - British Columbia

11. Bakshpreet Singh Gill - British Columbia

12. Trevor Manoosingh - Manitoba

13. Farhan Malik - Alberta

14. Shan Anantharajah - Ontario

Coach: Ingleton Liburd - Ontario

Manager: Anil Khanna - British Columbia

CRICKET CANADA ANNOUNCES SCOTLAND TOUR SQUAD

Mon, 06/18/2012

Cricket Canada is pleased to announce its squad for the upcoming tour of Scotland July 4th - 11th from Uddingston CC near Glasgow and the Grange in Edinburgh which includes an ICUP fixture and 2 ODI's as part of the ICC World Cricket League Championship.

Former Guyana captain Damodar Dasrath and Canada 'A' wicket keeper/batsmen Parveen Saroye will make their Canadian team debuts.

CANADA SQUAD

Hiral Patel - Brampton Masters CC (ON)

Jason Sandher - Meralomas AC (BC)

Ruvindu Gunasekera - Toronto CSCC (ON)

Nitish Kumar - Repton Academy (UK)

Zeeshan Siddiqui - Crescent CC (MB)

Amarbir Hansra - Abbotsford CC (BC)

Damodar Daesrath - Brampton Masters CC (ON)

Rizwan Cheema (Captain) - Brampton Masters CC (ON)

Parth Desai - Centurions SC (ON)

Parveen Saroye - Crown CC (AB)

Durand Sorraine - Vikings CC (ON)

Jeremy Gordon - Brampton Masters CC (ON)

Henry Osinde - Toronto CSCC - (ON)

Usman Limbada - Brampton Masters CC - (ON)

Junaid Siddiqui - PCB - (ON)

SCHEDULE

July 4 - 7th | Intercontinental Cup | Uddingston CC | Near Glasgow | 6:00AM ET

AN EVENING WITH HAROON LORGAT

Tue, 05/22/2012

It was an intimate affair for those who enjoyed the pleasant Victoria Day evening at Toronto Cricket Club to attend a special event co-presentation of “An Evening with Haroon Lorgat” by Cricket Canada and World Cricket Weekly.

The nearly sixty guests were treated to an introspective discussion between the outgoing International Cricket Council Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat and broadcast veteran and World Cricket Weekly host Nigel Reed.

The “Inside the Actor’s Studio” style setting allowed the well researched and well prepared host to engage with Mr. Lorgat in an intellectual discussion that spanned from his experiences in primary school as a young South African Indian during the Apartheid era to his legacy as cricket’s top man during a period of strong global growth and high performance.

Full video coverage was provided by World Cricket Weekly with highlights to air on gocricketgocanada.com and Cricket Canada TV in the coming month.

During the evening, Cricket Canada’s Womens team were deservingly recognized for their achievement in winning the ICC Americas Women’s T20 Championship and earning a spot in the ICC Women’s World T20 Qualifiers later this year.

Noteable guests included Cricket Canada President Ravin Moorthy, CEO Doug Hannum, Secretary Calvin Clarke, Operations Officer Ingleton Liburd, players representative Zubin Surkari, and Canadian Men’s Captain Rizwan Cheema.

ICC Regional Development Manager Martin Vieira, Ontario Premier League organizer Ranjit Saini, and Ontario Cricket Council representative Leslie Soobrian were also on hand.

ICC CEO HAROON LORGAT TO VISIT TORONTO

Wed, 05/16/2012

Join Cricket Canada & World Cricket Weekly in a presentation of "An Evening with Haroon Lorgat" at the Toronto Cricket Skating & Curling Club between 7:00 - 9:00pm.

Broadcast veteran Nigel Reed will host the event and welcome the South African born outgoing International Cricket Council CEO Haroon Lorgat for an indepth discussion on his tenure at the helm of cricket's global governing body.

The ICC World T20 Trophy will be on display during the event for photographs.

Admission is by RSVP only with a Business Casual and Cocktail dress code in effect. Only 50 tickets have been made available.

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STATEMENT ON POTENTIAL PAKISTAN TOUR

Wed, 05/09/2012

Cricket Canada believes strongly in fostering solid relationships with all full member boards of the ICC. With that in mind I can confirm that I have reached out to my counterpart at the PCB with respect to strengthing cricket ties between Pakistan and Canada. We have requested details with respect to a potential tour to Pakistan but have had no formal discussions with the PCB regarding it as of yet.

Doug Hannum
CEO Cricket Canada

CANADIAN WOMEN CLAIM REGIONAL PRIZE

Mon, 04/30/2012

An unusual occurrence in Paradise - all day rain ruined the final day's play at the T20 Americas Women Championship in the Cayman Islands.

Heavy overnight and morning rain left the Smith Road Oval under water where the South Americans, Brazil and Argentina, were scheduled to play.

The morning rain cancelled the scheduled game between Bermuda and host Cayman Island who were prepared to do battle for 4th place.

Hopes were slim for even a minimum over match in the afternoon between USA and Canada. At 4.00 pm an inspection was made and the bad news came, no play, wet grounds.

Canada became champions as per the tournament rules with the better net run rate.

The USA settled for the silver medal with the ever improving Argentines in third.

Presentations and a B--B-Q wrapped up the event at the Jimmy Powell Oval

Individual Tournament Awards went to:

Batting	Durriya Shabbir	Canada
Bowling	Samantha Ramautar	USA
Wicket Keeping	Melissa Sandy	USA
Most Valuable Player	Nadia Gundy	USA

CANADA VS. USA

Sat, 04/28/2012

Rain is in the forecast for the Cayman Islands today as Canada and USA do battle for the ICC America's Division One T20 Championship.

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DIGHTON RESIGNS AS HEAD COACH

Tue, 04/24/2012

Cricket Canada regrets to announce the resignation of Michael Dighton, National Senior Men’s Coach, as of April 20, 2012.

During his 8 months in the position, Dighton coached the Senior Men’s team on a training tour of Barbados, the Caribbean T20, WT20Q preparation camp in Sri Lanka, World T20 Qualifier in UAE, and Canada’s tour of Namibia.

Cricket Canada Vice-President Vimal Hardat commented on Dighton’s resignation,

“We were obviously disappointed to lose someone of Michael’s caliber but understand his reasons and thank him for his contribution to Cricket Canada. We wish him all the best in the future.”

Cricket Canada’s CEO Doug Hannum indicated that the organization will begin looking for Dighton’s replacement immediately with an eye on qualification for the 2014 T20 Cricket World Cup and the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

“The search for Michael’s replacement will soon be underway, well in time for the national team’s trip to Scotland in July. We are certainly focused on putting our best foot forward to get ourselves into the next World Cup cycle and a new coach will be an integral part of that.”

CANADIAN WOMEN DEFEAT BERMUDA

Tue, 04/24/2012

Canada's Women secured a 77 run victory over Bermuda in their second match at the ICC Americas Women's T20 Championship on Tuesday.

After being sent in to bat, Canada amassed 150-8 in the allotted 20 overs with Durriya Shabbir (29), Joanna White (18), and Sheryl Tittlemier (18) all providing contributions. Errant Bermudan bowling provided the largest contribution to the Canadian figures with 34 extras.

The Bermudan reply was stunted early and they struggled to reach 73 for 7 from 20 overs, Lorraine Kenton (3 wickets) and Joanna White (2 wickets) did the share of the damage.

17 year old Mikaela Turik (NSW, Australia) again stood in as captain for Suthershini Sivanantham (Montreal, PQ) who went down with a shoulder injury in training prior to Monday's contest with Brazil.

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