T20 (10.30am) Canada U19 95-9 (20 ov) lost to USA U19 88-3 (15.1 ov) by 7 wickets
T20 (2.30pm) Canada U19 168-5 (20 ov) beat Bermuda U19 106-9 (20 ov) by 62 runs
Both matches played on July 14, 2013 (South-east pitch, Maple Leaf CC)
USA Under-19 captain Steve Taylor took five wickets for just two runs from four overs as Canada Under-19’s struggled to 85 for nine in the first T20 game on Sunday July 14. Taylor also scored 24 runs, batting third in the order, as the USA reached a winning 88 for three wickets after 15.1 overs to win by seven wickets. Armaan Kapoor captained the Canadian U19’s in this match, but then led from the front with an innings of 69 runs from 48 balls (8×4’s; 4×6’s) as Canada tallied 168 for five in 20 overs and beat Bermuda by 62 runs in an afternoon game. Bermuda scored 106 for nine wickets in 20 overs, Farhan Malik taking five wickets for 12 runs from four overs.

Steve Taylor was presented with the Man-of-the-Match award for the USA-Canada U19 T20 game during the awards ceremony for the ICC Americas U19 Division One tournament. A ceremony that took place before the afternoon T20 between Canada U19 and Bermuda U19.
In Canada’s 85 for nine wickets there were four individual scores in double digits from opener Gurkaran Dhillon (17 from 33 balls), wicketkeeper Vasu Shah (12 from 17 balls), Trevor Manoosingh (17 from 19 balls) and Amanpal Gillar (12 from 8 balls). Dhillon and Gillar are both based in British Columbia. Manoosingh and Gillar play in the Manitoba Cricket Association’s league. Steve Taylor’s spinning out of five batsmen for just two runs was certainly the top bowling achievement of this match, but spare a thought for a good performance by Krisheal Goel of the California Cricket Academy whose spin bowling collected three wickets for eight runs from three overs.
Kaniesel Edmonson hit a couple of boundaries before being bowled by leg-spinner Manoosingh for 11 during an eventful second overs in the US innings. Taylor came to the crease and hit 24, as previously mentioned, and Waqas Shah’s 30 not out from 42 balls helped the USA juniors to a comfortable seven wicket win in the sixteenth over.
Young Canadians win against Bermuda
Armaan Kapoor’s knock of 69 lead the way for the young Canadins against Bermuda on Sunday afternoon. Kapoor took part in an opening stand of 81 with Anikit Joshi, before Joshi was caught for 27 runs, made from 29 balls. Kapoor and Nikil Dutta took the score to 126 at which point a drive to deep mid-wicket by Kapoor was caught by William White off Onais Bascombe’s bowling. Bascombe’s next over saw Dutta also fall to a catch by White with a similar drive aimed at clearing the legside boundary. Dutt scored 17. Gurkaran Dhillon made 20 from 18 balls and Sudeepta Aurka made 14 from 8 balls. Aurka was bowled by Bascombe who ended with three wickets at a cost of 40 runs from four overs.
Shaquille Jones made 25 from 25 balls at the top of the Bermuda batting order, but Canada had seen his opening partner Christian Burgess depart for 7 with just 10 runs on the board during the fourth over. Tre Manders hit two fours and sent the ball over the boundary rope for three sixes in a knock of 34 runs from 30 balls before being stumped by Shan off the bowling of Farhan Malik. Alex Dore had been the first of what proved to be a five wicket haul for Malik. Bermuda captain Joshua Gilbert made 14 not out but there was little batting support in the lower order, except in ensuring Bermuda batted out the complete limit of twenty overs. Canada’s Malik ended with five wickets for 13 runs from his four overs. Dutta continued a sucessful week with the ball taking two wickets for 11 runs, and Manoosingh took two for sixteen from four overs.
ICC Americas U19 Awards Update
Mention was made in a Sunday report on Canada Cricket Online that Canada’s Nikil Dutta had won the batting, bowling and most valuable player awards from the ICC Americas U19 tournament. The award for the wicketkeeper of the tournament went to Bermuda’s Christian Burgess. Burgess scored 44 as an opening batsman before being caught and bowled by Dutt in Canada’s 91 run win against Bermuda on Saturday (July 13) that sealed the ICC Americas U19 champsionship and a place in the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
T20’s provided cricketing action after games lost to rain
The two T20 exhibition matches had been added to the schedule to allow players to gain playing time after most of the original first round of matches in the U19 Division One 50-overs per side tournament had been washed out due to the impact of the afternoon and evening storms of Monday July 8. Tributes during the presentation ceremony included thanks to the hard work and efforts of the groundstaff at Maple Leaf Cricket Club.
Visits by USA Senior Squad and UAE on the near horizon in the GTA
Steve Taylor will soon be back in the Greater Toronto Area. Taylor was named captain of the senior USA team for the two innings per side Auty Cup 2-day match and related limited overs matches. The Auty Cup series had originally been announced as taking place in Edmonton, Alberta.
The UAE will then arrive for the four-day, first class ICC Intercontinental Cup game against Canada on August 1 through 4, 2013 at Maple Leaf CC. Two 50-over matches follow at the Maple Leaf CC that are part of the World Cricket League and the UAE tour ends with two T20 games at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.
Oddly enough, the last time the UAE was at Maple Leaf CC for an Intercontinental Cup match the game ended with a Canadian win on the Sunday the Molson Indy was taking place by the Toronto lakeshore. The cricket that day managed to avoid most of the rains, but it was much wetter at the Indy racing. Yesterday most were saying how hot it was at Maple Leaf CC, and it will have been hot at the Indy racing by the lakeshore.
Significantly more people are likely to know who won the Indy racing than have the awareness that the USA Under-19’s beat Canada U19’s in a T20 cricket match, despite the years that cricket has been played on the North American continent. There would not have been any issues with fast cards on the Toronto lakeshore or car parking needs when Canada and the USA first met on the cricket field at the St George’s Club in New York in September 1844.
　
Eddie Norfolk