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At last year’s Cricket West Indies 2019 Regional Super50 Championships, the Zone A Canada inclusive matches of which were played in St Kitts, Shahid Ahmadzai captured 10 wickets in the seven matches he played. It was a highly commendable performance by the now 31-year-old Ahmadzai (born 15 November 1988), who was finally making his international debut in List A matches for Canada.

During the 2019 Regional Super50 Tournament, Ahmadzai also scored 190 runs from 8 innings to end the Tournament with a commendable 27.14 average. He shared a significant stand of 103 for the third wicket with Nitish Kumar during Canada’s match- winning first-round encounter against the defending Champions the Combined Colleges & Campuses. Ahmadzai’s contribution to the Canadian innings was a career-high 73 from 87 balls that included five fours and four fours.

Just recently announced by the Canadian based premier cricket gear company Arsak Sports as its sponsor player, Shahid Ahmadzai’s journey to the prominence he enjoyed as one of Canada’s outstanding 2019 Super50 performers, has been frustratingly long and arduous. He will readily admit to having been a huge fan of cricket for as long as he can remember. He remembers watching cricket on television as a kid and recalls having had a dream to become a professional cricket player one day.

The impact of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation is continuing to have a resounding effect on sport and life in general. Cricket Canada is therefore closely monitoring information related to the spread of the Coronavirus. The health and safety of our cricketers and their families is of utmost importance to Cricket Canada.

As such Cricket Canada has suspended all practice and upcoming events until further notice. It is our recommendation that all Provinces, Leagues and Clubs suspend all cricket related activities and social events.

Earlier this month the ICC cancelled the scheduled March 14th – 28th 2020 ‘ICC CWC Challenge League A’ tournament due to the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide. Canada along with Singapore, Oman, Denmark, Vanuatu and Host Malaysia were scheduled to take part in that tournament.

Cricket Canada will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation and its impact and will provide updates accordingly.

Medical advisory on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak from the ICC Medical Advisory Committee (MAC).

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The International Cricket Council today announced that the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League A series set to begin on 16 March in Malaysia has been postponed due to the Coronavirus (COVID- 19) outbreak.

The 11-day tournament was scheduled between 16 and 26 March and involves teams from Canada, Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, and Vanuatu. Due to a rapidly developing heath emergency with increasing travel difficulties between countries and potential uncertainty arising for individuals returning to their country of origin, the decision was taken to postpone the event to later in 2020.

ICC Head of Events, Chris Tetley said: “We have made the difficult decision to postpone the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League A due to the Coronavirus outbreak. We have been monitoring the situation very closely and have concluded that the best course of action is to postpone the event owing to the increasing travel difficulties between countries and the potential uncertainty around teams returning home.

Head coach Amarinder Bhinder looking forward to Canada playing hard disciplined cricket in Malaysia hosted ICC Challenge League A

Head coach Amarinder Bhinder has indicated that Canada’s Senior Men’s cricketers will have to play hard, disciplined cricket if they are to be successful at this month’s Malaysia hosted ICC Challenge League A Tournament. Team Canada will play 50 over matches against Denmark, Qatar, Singapore, Vanuatu and tournament hosts Malaysia during the March 14-26 Tournament that forms part of the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualification process for the twelve teams that are ranked 21-32 in the ICC’s standings.

The Malaysia Challenge League A Tournament will be Bhinder’s second assignment as head coach of a Canadian national cricket team. The South African Bhinder coached Canada’s development team to the unprecedented feat of winning two victories during last November’s Cricket West Indies Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Regional Championships Zone A Matches that were held in St Kitts.

Harsh Thaker Seeking To Solidify Status As Canadian Cricket’s Leading All-Rounder!

Fresh from his outstanding all-round performances with both bat and ball for Canada during last November’s St Kitts hosted Zone A matches of the 2019 Cricket West Indies (CWI) Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Championships, Harsh Thaker will be seeking similar returns in Malaysia in the weeks ahead. Thaker has been named as one of the fourteen cricketers who will represent Canada at the March 14-27 Malaysia hosted International Cricket Conference (ICC) Cricket World Cup Challenge League A.

Thaker’s ever-increasing status as one of Canada’s Senior Men’s teams leading all-rounders was further confirmed during the recent CWI Super50 Championships held in St Kitts last November. As a batsman he scored 223 runs from 8 innings, at a 31.85 average. Apart from the average chart-topping Nitish Kumar, Thaker was the only other Canadian batsman to score over two hundred runs and average above 30 during the Super50 Championships!

With the ball, Thaker’s performances were even more impressive. He was undoubtedly Canada’s best bowler at the Super50 Tournament, capturing the most wickets (10) from 43 overs bowled. His 18.90 average was also the lowest among all of Canada’s bowlers.

Cricket Canada has announced the names of a strong fourteen member Men’s Senior Team Squad to participate in the 2020 International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup Challenge League A. The Tournament, which will be a part of the qualification process for the 2023 ICC Word Cup, will be held in Malaysia from March 14 – 27, 2020. Canada will play fifty 0vers matches against ICC Division A country teams representing Denmark, Qatar, Singapore, Vanuatu and hosts Malaysia during the Tournament.

Canada’s 14 member ICC 2020 Challenge Cup Squad will be captained by its experienced opening batsman Navneet Dhaliwal (pictured). In 30 List A (fifty-overs) matches played to date in Canadian colours, Dhaliwal has scored 1027 runs at an impressive 39.50 average, with two centuries and five half centuries. Nitish Kumar, Abrash Khan, Ravinderpal Singh, Harsh Thaker, Varun Sehdev and Srimantha Wijeyeratne, will provide batting support to Dhaliwal.

Canada’s bowling attack will be centred around the front line spin of experienced campaigners Saad Bin Zafar, Nikhil Dutta, Salman Nazar and Shahid Ahmedzai. They will be ably supported by the part-time spin offerings of Nitish Kumar and Dhaliwal himself. Romesh Eranga and Faizal Jamkhandi are the only two seamers included in the squad, the wicket-keeping duties for which will be shared by Srimantha Wijeyeratne and Armaan Kapoor.

Cricket Canada is seeking applications for positions of Managers and Assistant Managers for National Cricket Teams. Interested and qualified candidates can apply by forwarding current resume with a letter of intent to General Manager, Cricket Canada at email: ingletonliburd@cricketcanada.org on or before March 15, 2020.

Position Summary:

Individual possesses knowledge and experience in sports team management has desire to work as liaison between coaching staff, players and Cricket Canada management in order to facilitate team’s travel logistics, maintains safe and professional conduct of all aspects of tour, aids & coordinates media days and above all acts as an event planner, public relations personnel for Cricket Canada while discharging his/her duties as manager.

Duration of Position:

24 months (Extendable)

Remunerations: Per event/tour

Minimum Requirements:

Canada’s Akhil Kumar has been named as the 12th Man on the ICC’s 2020 U19 World Cup Team of the Tournament. The South Africa hosted three week long competition reached its climax on Sunday February 9, with Bangladesh U19 emerging victors over the previously heavy favored India. Bangladesh U19 won the rain affected final, chasing down India’s 177 to win by three wickets by the DLS method.

The official team of the tournament features representatives from six sides. It is skippered by Bangladesh captain Akbar Ali and includes India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal who was also adjudged to be the Player of the Tournament. An adjudication panel of five, which was comprised of commentators Ian Bishop, Rohan Gavaskar and Natalie Germanos, ESPN Cricinfo Correspondent Sreshth Shah and ICC Representative Mary Godbeer, selected both the Team and Player of the Tournament.

A superb unbeaten 86 run seventh wicket partnership between unlikely batting heroes Harmjeet Singh Bedi 31 (59) not out and Udaybir Walia who remained undefeated on 51 (56), piloted Canada to a morale boosting 4 wicket win over the United Arab Emirates in their February 1 ICC U19 World Cup Plate Championship match. The win, only their second of the tournament, secured a thirteenth place finish in the sixteen team Tournament for the Canadians.

Having won the toss and sent the UAE in to bat, Canada’s bowlers led by Walia, ably assisted by the indomitable Akhil Kumar, bowled with superb control to restrict the UAE’s innings to 174 all out after 44.1 overs. Alishan Sharafu’s 65 not out was the only score of note as the UAE batsmen fell to the bowling wiles of Walia 3-16 (3.1 overs) and Kumar (pictured) whose 3-37 (10) lifted his tournament wickets tally to a highly impressive 16.