As many would have seen I have been asked to serve on the Cricket Canada board as vice-president. I thus believe it is useful to outline how this might impact activity on this web site.
I have been involved with canadacricket.com for a long time now; I offered to help the founder Jon Harris back in the early 2000s after working with him closely on the CricInfo coverage of the ICC Trophy. After Jon became ill I took over full responsibility for the site and have been running it in part in his memory (Jon passed away in 2014).
The site has always had a combination of aggregated news- links to articles about cricket in Canada, and comment/ opinion. Jon was often highly critical of the administration of cricket in Canada, and was a tireless advocate for grass-roots development. Eddie Norfolk is a regular contributor and is often forthright in his views, and I have contributed opinion pieces myself.
I have now been asked to serve on the Cricket Canada board. I previously sat on the board for a year as a director, and was able to maintain canadacricket.com and plan to do so again. However I will not be providing any comment or opinion pieces that might put me in conflict with my position with Cricket Canada. As a board member, I will also be privy to much information that cannot be shared, and it would be inappropriate to use any of that information here.
Canadacricket.com will continue to operate and will publish any opinion pieces submitted to it – it would be great to have more contributors. There are however now many other means of providing commentary on Canadian cricket- Devesh Shankar’s Facebook efforts for example, as well as several others. This means mean that interest in a news web site and forum has declined. I suspect if Jon were around today, he’d be highly active on Facebook, using every opportunity to hold Cricket Canada to account, advocate for grass roots cricket- and provide fascinating tidbits of Canadian cricket history. However, for now, the web site will continue to operate as before, and we welcome any contributions.