Cricket Canada have announced their squad for the ICC America’s T20 Tournament taking place July 17-25 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. BC’s Jimmy Hansra is the somewhat surprising choice of captain, and the squad has a few unfamiliar names. Cricket Canada charcterises the team as “developmental”. Canada has already qualified for the T20 World Cup qualifier so the tournament provides an opportunity to look at some new faces and prospects. Full media release follows.
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Cricket Canada is pleased to announce the following squad for the ICC America’s T20 Tournament taking place July 17-25 in Fort Lauderdale,
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Jimmy Hansra – BC (Captain)<\/p>\n
Waleed Ahmed (Manitoba)
\nTrevin Bastiampillai (Ontario)
\nGrant Broadhurst (Alberta)
\nSatsimranjit Singh Dhindsa (Ontario)
\nZahid Hussain(Ontario)
\nUsman Limbada (Ontario)
\nDeepak Pabla (Quebec)
\nCecil Pervez (Ontario)
\nParveen Saroye (Alberta)
\nJason Sandher (BC)
\nJonathan Snow (BC)
\nHamza Tariq (Alberta)
\nKhusroo Wadia (Ontario)<\/p>\n
Coach\/Manager : Ingleton Liburd<\/p>\n
Canada has elected to send a mainly developmental squad to the tournament
\nwhile several players are being rested ahead of the upcoming Intercontinental Cup, ODI and T20 Matches against Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Vice President Vimal Hardat is confident the team will put up a showing in the America’s tournament.<\/p>\n
“Having already qualified for the T20 Cricket World Cup Qualifier (in 2012) we saw this as a good chance to have some of our prospects test themselves as well as to give our more senior players a chance to get ready for Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n
Rizwan Cheema, Hiral Patel, Ruvindu Gunasekera, and Parth Desai headline the list of players staying in Canada to prepare for Afghanistan while Harvir Baidwan and Khurram Chohan are due to arrive shortly back from successful stints in England.<\/p>\n
The team leaves on July 16th for Fort Lauderdale from Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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