Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador hosts the Eastern Canadian Senior Cricket Championships starting next Friday in St. John’s, the first inter-provincial cricket matches in the province since the 1890s. The tournament takes place July 21-23, and will feature Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI and Quebec (last year’s champions).
All matches will be played on a new purpose built pitch, constructed thanks to financial assistance from Cricket Canada and a grant from the provincial government; support of City of St. John’s, NL Sports Centre Inc. & St. Johns Airport Authority was also essential in completing the construction.
Tournament chair Gurman Khurana says:-“
We are excited to host the other provinces in our home town of St. John’s. This is a great opportunity to show the other teams & Cricket Canada that our organization can execute an event at this scale. We are very appreciative of the support we have received from the local community for this event and makes us feel proud to be part of this province. We’re very grateful to the provincial government for a hosting grant that has helped us accomplish this”.
Full schedule:
| Friday July 21st | ||
| 8 a.m. | Newfoundland & Labrador | New Brunswick |
| 11 a.m. | Nova Scotia | Prince Edward Island |
| 2 p.m. | Quebec | Newfoundland & Labrador |
| 5 p.m. | Nova Scotia | New Brunswick |
| Saturday July 22nd | ||
| 8 a.m. | Nova Scotia – Quebec | |
| 11 a.m. | New Brunswick – Prince Edward Island | |
| 2 p.m. | Nova Scotia | Newfoundland & Labrador |
| 5 p.m. | Prince Edward Island – Quebec | |
| Sunday July 23rd | ||
| 8 a.m. | Newfoundland & Labrador – Prince Edward Island | |
| 11 a.m. | New Brunswick – Quebec | |
| 2 p.m. | FINAL (1st vs 2nd) followed by award ceremonies | |
Squads:-
New Brunswick
- Nipun Badyal
- Brian Butler
- Kapil Choudhary
- Ravirajsinh Dodiya
- Prateek Gaur
- Sumit Gaur
- Bradley Kersing
- Liam Finn
- Thiyagarajan Manickam
- Sahil Saini
- Mustafa Shahid
- Amit Tamrakar , Player/Coach
- Anas Tavrez
- Shubham Verma
- Anmol Zakhmi , Captain
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Abu Syed – right hand bat
- Arifusalam Shaikh – medium fast bowler/ right hand bat
- Bharath Shetty – right hand bat
- Dhrumit Bhatt – fast-medium bowler
- Gurman Khurana (vice-captain) – wicketkeeper-batsman
- Ihtehsham Khan – fast medium bowler, right hand bat
- Messam Timur – left arm fast medium bowler
- Najaf Raza – fast medium bowler
- Praveen Manhas- all rounder, left arm orthodox spin
- Rahul Vashishta (captain) – all rounder, fast-medium bowler
- Rakesh Negi – right hand bat, spin
- Sajawal Osto – right hand bat, fast-medium
- Saravana Kumar – medium pace
- Umair Khan – left hand bat
- Dave Liverman (coach)
Nova Scotia
- Daksh Talwar, Captain – Leg Spin/Bat
- Dinesh Gaddam, Vice-Captain – Batsman
- Reeze Telling, Player-Coach – Batsman
- Arun Nag Anupindi, Leg Spin
- Naga Donavalli, Medium Pace
- Mohammad Ijaz, Wicketkeeper Batsman
- Andrew Irving, Player-Team Manager – Batsman
- Ankit Jain, Medium Pace
- Geo James, Medium Pace
- Amit Joshi, All-rounder (Medium Pace)
- Touseef Mahmood, Batsman
- Sagar Mandhan, Off-Spinner
- Neel Patel, All-rounder (Medium Pace)
- Tushar Sehgal, Medium Pace
- Saqib Shahzad, Spin All-rounder
Prince Edward Island
- Kehar Singh
- Manpreet Singh
- Ross Dwyer
- Satwinder Singh
- Verley Harrison
- Karanvir Saini
- Harpreet Singh
- Gurpinder Singh
- Navjot Chandi
- Kanwaljit Singh
- Gurkirat Singh
- Jaipal Singh
- Parth Patel
- Umang Ramani
Quebec
- Suresh Ramkisson (Captain)
- Malinga Wijethlaka (Vice-Captain)
- Deepak Pabla
- Raiyan Pasha. Wicketkeeper.
- Pooran Ramkisson.
- Glenroy Rigis.
- Jaganpreet Schooch.
- Sunny Bhatia.
- Pinal Patel.
- Mayur Patel
- Shayan Ahmed.
- Umar Muhammad.
- Varindersingh Sidhu
- John Romano Keon
- Roopsingh Sunnysingh (Coach)
- Arvind J. Patel (Manager)