At a City hall press conference scheduled for 1.30 pm on Friday June 19th, Toronto Mayor John Tory will announce the eighth annual CIMA Cricket Across the Pond (CAP) high school cricket team. The team will be heading to Sri Lanka under the CIMA CAP program that provides opportunities to engage young people and promote cross cultural and inter cultural relationships through cricket.

Since its inception in 2008, CAP program has developed young leaders who possess positive self-esteem, role modeling characteristics and a strong sense of civic responsibility. As youth cricket ambassadors of GTHA and Ontario, the team will attend a welcome reception hosted by Her Excellency Shelley Whiting the Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, prior to the start of the cricket matches against Sri Lankan schools. The team consists of school cricketers from Hamilton, Halton, Peel, Toronto, York and Durham and the tour marks the first official visit of a Canadian school cricket team to Sri Lanka. The tour itinerary also includes a match against a youth team from the Foundation of Goodness, a grassroots charity championed by Sri Lankan cricket legends Muralitharan, Jayawardena and Sangakkara.
CAP is a partnership project between CIMA Canada and Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Division and has been recognized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) with the ICC Development award for promotion and marketing. The Royal Bank of Canada and Tom’s Place, Toronto are the lead sponsors of the program.