The National T20 starts today, although Cricket Canada has not officially announced players attending, teams or the schedule. We understand from information provided unofficially that there will be 4 matches a day, start times 10 am and 3 pm at Maple Leaf CC. Matches will be played on turf wickets.  Players will be assigned to one of four teams- no criteria given to date but one assumes with a mix of national players and those aspiring to that level. The format is of a double round robin so each team will play 6 T2 games. No news on live scoring, updates or streaming. Trawling through news items and provincial web pages provides some information on those attending.

According to the Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador have two players attending, Praveen Manhas (a left arm spinner) and Rahul Vashishtha (batsman), both 25 years old.

The Nova Scotia Cricket Association Facebook page provides the information that three of their players are attending, Daksh Talwar (leg spinner), Arun Nag (left arm spin) and Arslan Khan (keeper-batsman). Reeze Telling (Nova Scotia coach with first-class playing experience in South Africa) is attending as a national selector.

The Manitoba Cricket Association Facebook page posted that five players from the Cosmos Club are attending- Trevor Manoosingh, Jatinder (Sunny) Matharu, Sarbjot Singh, Amrinder Singh, Araib Khan and Titto Wilson. 

As previously reported here, Quebec Cricket announced players back in May– but we have no later confirmation of their attendance.

We wish all the best to all players at this tournament, and look forward to finding out more.