At the AGM held on 27 June 2020 the following board members were elected:
President: Rasphal Bajwa (by acclamation)
Secretary: Farhan Khan
Directors at large: Mohammed Sheikh, Amjad Bawja.
We congratulate them and thank those board members who are stepping down (Ranjit Saini, Amanda Pooran, and Qasim Virk) for their service and dedication
CRICKET CANADA 2020 AGM AGENDA
Virtual AGM June 27-28 2020
Venue Name: Virtual AGM
Details:
Cricket Canada shall make efforts to live stream open sessions of the AGM.
DAY 1- SATURDAY June 27 2020
MEETING # A PROVINCIAL DIRECTORS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS .. Closed
1.00 PM – 1.30 PM
A 1.0 Call to order
A 2.0 Review & Approval of the closed session of the Provincial Directors
Meeting Minutes of the 2019 AGM held in Toronto
A 3.0 Approval of the Agenda
A 4.0 By Law review
A 5.0 Internal Audit
A.6.0 Discussion on reports by the BOD or any other circular resolution for which member interest as been provided.
CRICKET CANADA 2020 AGM AGENDA
Virtual AGM June 27-28 2020
Venue Name: Virtual AGM
Details:
Cricket Canada shall make efforts to live stream open sessions of the AGM.
DAY 1- SATURDAY June 27 2020
MEETING # A PROVINCIAL DIRECTORS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS .. Closed
1.00 PM – 1.30 PM
A 1.0 Call to order
A 2.0 Review & Approval of the closed session of the Provincial Directors
Meeting Minutes of the 2019 AGM held in Toronto
A 3.0 Approval of the Agenda
A 4.0 By Law review
A 5.0 Internal Audit
A.6.0 Discussion on reports by the BOD or any other circular resolution for which member interest as been provided.
The following nominations have been received and approved by the nominating committee
President
Ranjit Saini
Rashpal Bajwa
Secretary
Amanda Pooran
Ms. Charlie Wall-Andrews
Farhan Khan
Director at Large (2 Positions)
Mohammed Shaikh
Amjad Bajwa
Ms. Charlie Wall-Andrews
Gurdeep Klair
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
For the year ending Dec 31st 2019
ELECTION/NOMINATION PROCESS
This announcement contains complete nomination process for Cricket Canada. The upcoming AGM will be held via Video Conferencing on 27th & 28th June 2020.
Following is a brief information about the nomination and election Process. For more information please reference Cricket Canada bylaws available at Cricket Canada website by following the link
https://cricketcanada.org/policies/english/2018-april-by-laws.pdf
Current Directors:
President
Secretary
Two (2) Directors-at-Large
Eligibility of Directors
The following persons are eligible to be nominated for election or appointment as a Director:
NOTICE OF THE
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
for the year ended Dec 31, 2019
Date of meeting: June 27-28 2020
TO ALL GENERAL/EXECUTIVE MEMBERS; COORDINATORS; COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Corporation shall be held on June 27-28 2020, at the following location:
Virtual AGM
Details:
Video link information will be provided to all delegated before the start of the meeting. A setup test will be performed before the AGM date to check connections and quality of the feed.
Cricket Canada Return to Play Guidelines
This plan draws extensively on the International Cricket Council “Back to Cricket” guidelines document prepared by the ICC Medical Committee released on May 20, 2020. Because of the rapidly evolving public health environment associated with CV-19, these guidelines are subject to change. The objective of this document is to provide guidelines to assist member organizations and affiliated leagues in developing policies that will allow a return to playing cricket without compromising the health of any of the individuals involved.
These guidelines do not answer the question of ‘when cricket can restart’ – as this is dependent on the restrictions in place in each province. Rather, this document offers guidance on how members can return to play alongside the resumption of outdoor sport and exercise in their province once they are able to. Any national, provincial and local government regulations and guidance always take precedence over these guidelines.
When Nikhil Dutta captured the prized wicket of host country Namibia’s Gerhard Erasmus for Canada during their 2018 ICC Division 2 Championship clash he set off on a celebratory run that attracted world wide attention because of its similarity to the customary wicket taking celebrations of South Africa’s Imran Tahir. For his part, Dutta has since self-consciously described that celebratory run as his most embarrassing moment in an otherwise outstanding Canadian cricket career for which he has deservedly become known as Canada’s mystery spinner!
Nikhil Dutta’s interest in cricket was first developed between the ages of 7-8. His earliest memories of being actively involved in cricket are of playing with his father in their family home’s hallway and living room. No doubt to the consternation of the family matriarch, his mother. From there the natural next step was Nikhil’s enrolment in his first-ever Academy as a means towards helping his game grow further. Nikhil credits his father as being the biggest influence on his development, throughout those early years, “he got me into the game and the techniques and knowledge that he passed onto me really helped my game to grow. He also took me to practice every day after school.
A few months ago, on January 22, 2020, to be precise, the Canadian and South African U19 teams lined up opposite each other for the playing of their respective national anthems at the start of their ICC 2020 U19 World Cup encounter. When the Canadian anthem was played, the player singing the loudest and with the most pride in the entire stadium would arguably have been Canada’s Benjamin Calitz.
As a seventeen-year-old wicket-keeper and left-handed top-order batsman, Calitz was proudly making just his fourth appearance in Canadian team colours. This time in front of an audience which included his South African parents It was he says, the proudest moment he has to date experienced in his emerging career as a Canadian cricketer! An emerging career which for all its readily obvious and abundant potential now definitely qualifies as “One To Watch!”
To celebrate the momentous occasion of his South African second home appearance being witnessed by his parents, Calitz took two catches behind the stumps off Akhil Kumar’s bowling as Canada fielded first. He then demonstrated his batting skills with an ultra-classy innings of 62 not out, made off of just 77 balls and punctuated by eight boundaries. Calitz’ knock was the backbone of Canada’s 199 all out, which was, unfortunately, woefully short of South Africa’s posted match-winning total of 349/8.
Extracted from “Wickets” magazine
If ever there was a male version of the Cinderella fairy-tale story, Canada’s Saad Bin Zafar would certainly qualify as a most appropriate subject for such an honour. His rise from the relative obscurity of Canadian cricket to international prominence as Man of the Match for the Vancouver Knights Championship Final victory in the Toronto hosted Inaugural Season of the Mercury Canada Global T20 Championship Final, can only best be described as meteoric!
Saad Bin Zafar (born 10 November 1986) is a Pakistan-born Canadian cricketer who plays for the Canada national cricket team. As a left handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler, Zafar is sufficiently competent in both as to be regarded as a genuine all rounder.
Zafar’s Cinderella story had a very early start. At the tender age of 10 he started playing tape ball on the streets of his hometown. Later at the age of 14 his school’s sports teacher spotted Zafar and introduced him to leather ball cricket by selecting him for the school’s juniors cricket team.
