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Cricket Canada, in partnership with CricHeroes, has launched Cricket Canada Match Centre, an App for scoring, statistics, and much more. In addition to the live scoring system that sits as its heart, the app also offers several additional exciting features which collectively will serve to enhance the recording and sharing of performances at all levels of Canadian cricket.

Among the app’s many exciting features are the following:

Live streaming broadcasting capabilities for all matches.
Automatic Player of the Match, Best Bat & Best Bowler Awards for player recognitions.
Automatic leaderboards (rankings) from all leagues for bats, bowlers, fielders and Most Valuable Player awards.
Auto generated player profiles with associated stats and detailed analysis.
A dedicated news section to keep users fully updated.
Ability to follow Cricket Canada social media activities.
Wagon Wheel, Manhattan, Worm, Run rate graph analyses of matches and individual performances.
Dedicated Provincial Sections which allow members to self manage their respective leagues.
A centralized dashboard for Cricket Canada to monitor all activities happening within its respective member provinces.
Notifications controls that allow users to stay updated with the latest developments in their favourite leagues, matches and teams

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

For the year ending Dec 31st 2020

ELECTION/NOMINATION PROCESS

This announcement contains the complete nomination process for the upcoming Cricket Canada elections, held in conjunction with the AGM on 26th June 2021.

The following is brief information regarding the nomination and election process. For more information please reference the Cricket Canada bylaws.

Positions up for election:

Vice President
Treasurer
Two (2) Directors-at-Large
Director (female)

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Corporation shall be held on June 26, 2021 as a Virtual AGM through Video/Audio Conference.

Details:

Video link information will be provided to all delegates 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 will send out system requirements to all members, Board of Directors and participants no later than 12th June 2021.

System requirements will be sent out to delegates, board members and other participants. Where necessary arrangements will be made at suitable location to optimise convenience and quality of the feed and participation of the participants.

The members of Cricket Canada recently unanimously approved revisions to the organization’s by-laws. The revisions were approved during Cricket Canada’s May 15 Special General Meeting.

The revisions to the previous by-laws that had been in place since 2018, were driven by a number of factors. Among these was Cricket Canada’s wish to move closer towards Sports Canada’s current established governance standards for national sports organizations, the need for greater clarity as to the requirements to apply for and hold Cricket Canada membership, as well as the need to clearly define the role of the nominating committee within its election process. Following legal review, the revised by-laws are now available here.

The revisions that have been made to the by-laws include:-

The creation of a Women’s Director position, reserved exclusively for women
The re-definition of the requirements for provincial membership, including a more detailed definition of “effective control”.
The establishment of procedures to determine if a member retains effective control, and how membership might be impacted if it is deemed that a member does not have effective control of cricket within their province.
The expansion of the Nominating Committee’s role. Along with running the nomination process, the Committee’s members will henceforth also be tasked with identifying candidates who bring needed skills and competencies to the board.
A better defined process by which votes are allocated to members at general meetings.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today (7 May 2021) announced the ICC Americas Men’s T20 Regional Qualifier, due to be hosted by Cricket Canada has been postponed to a later date. The venue may be subject to change, depending on the COVID-19 situation.

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier 1 was scheduled to be hosted by Cricket Canada between 17 and 23 July 2021. The Americas qualifier has been postponed due to government and travel restrictions.

The ICC Americas Qualifier T20 tournament will involve Canada, Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Panama and the USA. New dates and host country will be confirmed in due course.

Please note that due to the ongoing health situation with regards to the Covid-19, the Western Women’s T20 scheduled for May 7 – 9, 2021 has been postponed. Cricket Canada will continue to monitor the situation and do it’s best to hold this event at a later date if possible.

The Cricket Canada board has called a Special General Meeting of members, to be held via video conference on May 15th, 2021 to consider changes to the organization’s by-laws. Full details have been provided to all provincial members.

This year’s Global T20 (GT20) Canada will be played in Malaysia between June – July, 2021. With the travel and health restrictions currently in place, there was considerable uncertainty as to whether this year’s tournament could be held in Canada in June –July as scheduled, hence the decision to have it moved to Malaysia. The tournament will return to Canada next year for its 2022 4th Season.

Commenting on the decision to have Malaysia host the 2021 Gt20 3rd Season, which was made jointly by Cricket Canada, the Malaysian Cricket Association and the Tournament’s owners Bombay Sports, Cricket Canada President Rashpal Bajwa said: “Cricketers and fans of cricket within Canada will naturally be disappointed that this year’s third edition of our world class Gt20 tournament cannot be held in Canada due to the ongoing COVID pandemic and the Canadian health guidelines. Cricket Canada, however, understands and fully supports our health authorities. We are also very positive in looking forward to hosting the tournament in Canada, once the pandemic is sufficiently ended and the safety of all concerned can be assured. In the interim we are now very excited to share with all Canadians and cricket lovers across the world that our good friends at the Malaysian Cricket Association have stepped up to help us host this year’s GT20 Season 3 in Malaysia with the necessary local health approvals. We are looking forward to a very exciting Third edition of GT20 Canada in Malaysia!”

The ICC has decided to reschedule World Challenge League matches. Their statement is provided below:

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that the two remaining series of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League A have been rescheduled due to COVID-19.

The Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League A, which forms part of the qualifying pathway to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in India, was scheduled to see the remaining 30 List A matches played in the final two series of the competition.

Canada, Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore and Vanuatu were due to play the second series in Canada between 15 and 28 August 2021 and the third series in Malaysia in 2022. The Malaysia event has been brought forward to November/December 2021 and the Canada series pushed back to July/August 2022.

Note that all dates should be considered tentative, based on the evolving impact of the global pandemic. All Canadian based events are dependent on obtaining permission from Federal and Provincial health authorities. Most events are still in the planning stages, with grounds and venues to be determined

Date Venue Event
May 7 – 9 Vancouver Women’s Western T20
June 4-6 Ontario Men’s Central T20
June 4-6 Vancouver Men’s Western T20
June 4-6 Ontario Women’s Central/ Eastern T20
June 4-6 New Brunswick Men’s Eastern T20 (date tentative, may be moved to July)
June 10 -13 Ontario Men’s National Championship
June 10-13 Ontario Women’s National Championship
July 11-17 Ontario Canada Cup U18
July 15 – 24 Ontario ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier; Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Panama, USA