Global T20 Canada 2020

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Registration for player auction is May 18 to 23

Reserve prices for ICC Associates vary from $10K and $30K for Full Members between $22.5K and $70K. This time Canadians appear to be grouped with other Associates so they should make at least $10000 for the tournament.

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Apparently the GT20 draft has begun. Very low profile compared to the glitzy presentations from India for the last two editions.


And for that matter, franchise renaming seems to be geared toward engaging locals from the Greater Toronto Area.
Mississauga Panthers apparently replace the reigning champion, Winnipeg Hawks. So that's now 3 locally-named teams (Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga). After the 2019 tournament, Surrey replaced Edmonton.

Article on 2023 tournament:
https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/glob ... 70421.html

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Drafted Canadians:

Montreal Tigers: Kaleem Sana, Srimantha Wijeratne, Matthew Spoors, Bhupinder Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Anoop Chima

Toronto Nationals: Saad bin Zafar, Nicholas Kirton, Armaan Kapoor, Hamza Tariq, Udhaya Bhagwan, Rommel Shahzad

Brampton Wolves: Jeremy Gordon, Aaron Johnson, Rizwan Cheema, Shahid Anmadzai, Gurpal Singh Sidhu, Rishiv Joshi

Mississauga Panthers: Nikhil Dutta, Shreyas Movva, Parveen Kumar, Navneet Dhaliwal, Mihir Patel, Ethan Gibson (x-Cecil Pervez)

Surrey Jaguars: Pargat Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Ammar Khalid, Sunny Matharu, Kairav Sharma, Sheel Patel

Vancouver Knights: Ravinderpal Singh, Harsh Thaker, Rayyan Pathan, Nawab Singh, Kanwar Tathgur, Ahmed Kamal

* underlined represent current national team members as of Canada's most recent ICC competition.

Have to wonder whether Matthew Nandu entered the draft.
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Update: Former NT player, Cecil Pervez is no longer on list of Canadian draftees provided by CC. The list now shows six Canadians per team.

[timmyj51]

Looks like a Golden-Oldies league. Bravo, Gayle, du Plessis, McCullum
Coetzer all retired. Cheema should be in retirement.

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Hadn't seen this: PSL Lahore Qalandars form association with Toronto Nationals
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/cana ... ls-1381694

Article mentions player budget is $579.5K US/team.

[timmyj51]

Indies control MLC...Pakis control Global. Yanks/Canucks control NOTHING!

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In Canada, the tournament is to be available on "CBC" according to Facebook. I assume that means the free part of the CBC Gem streaming service. Hopefully, there will be more clarity as the start date approaches.

[Victorian]

It’s on the CC youtube

[timmyj51]

Took a look at the video of the ground. As rinky-dink as the pre-Covid
one.

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Matches will apparently be streamed on CBC live sports platform.
Opening match - Brampton vs Mississauga: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2244091459839