The twelve player CIMA Toronto Mayor’s XI for this summer’s cricket tour to the United Kingdom was announced at Toronto’s City Hall on Friday (June 24, 2011).
 
It seems this year’s tour was in jeopardy, due to financial constraints, according to Tom Mihalik, owner of Tom’s Place in Toronto’s Kensington Market and a sponsorship supporter of “Cricket Across the Pond”, pointed out RBC made a return as sponsor, at the last minute, to help save this year’s tour.
 
Thanks are due to the sponsors and those who have worked to create this fourth annual Toronto Mayor’s XI ‘Cricket Across the Pond’ tour.
 
Tour squad: Michael Walton (18, captain, Emery CI); Akshay Shah (16, George Harvey CI) ;Akeel Cheema (18, Kipling CI), Manav Parikh (17, Sir Wilfred Laurier CI), Parth Patel (18, Woburn CI), Neil Ramkissoon (17, West Hill CI), Talha Shaikh (17, George Harvey CI), Malav Patel (17, North Albion CI), Aashin Patwari (17, Woburn CI), Yug Rao (17, Woburn CI), Dipenkumar Patel (21, Ryerson University), and In Ho (Gus) Cha (17, Upper Canada College)
 
Note: “CI” stands for Collegiate Institute
 
Adil Askary is the coach/manager for this year’s tour. Adil is now Vice-Principal at Weston CI, having previously been at North Albion CI. He was one of the leaders of the Toronto Schools cricket program over the previous ten or so years, prior to his current appointment at Weston CI.