Cricket Canada news release
\nFor the first time since 2005 Cricket Canada will host a 50 over national championships. The 5 team tournament to be held July 26-30 in Toronto will see teams from British Columbia, Alberta, Prairies, Ontario, and Eastern Canada compete for the Ed Bracht trophy.
\nRegional playdowns for the Prairies team will get underway this weekend and Saskatchewan travels to Winnipeg to take on Manitoba in a two game series. The July long weekend will see Nova Scotia visit Quebec in the Eastern Canada regionals.
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\nCricket Canada president Ranjit Saini feels that a national tournament is critical for the success of the organization. <\/p>\n
“As an organization it is our duty to deliver a viable national championships for our players and supporters. It has been 5 long years since we all got together in Vancouver for a 50 over competition and we will be looking for the same high quality tournament that we had then.” <\/p>\n
Like 2005, the tournament will serve as a precursor to the 2011 Cricket World Cup and give the players in Canada a chance to showcase their talents ahead of a world cup selection. While much of the senior team will be engaged in the Caribbean at the Caribbean T20 tournament, Saini sees this as a time for new talent to shine. <\/p>\n
“Obviously the Caribbean tournament was an opportunity we could not pass up so this will allow new players to step up and take on the challenge of becoming national players. The High Performance group is also working on some opportunities for a Canada A side so there is much to play for. For our friends in the muslim community, the holy month of Ramadan begins in August and we wanted to finish the tournament before that time to ensure that all players had an opportunity to participate in the tournament.”<\/p>\n
This will be the 21st occasion that Canada’s provinces have competed for national supremecy in Cricket. Ontario has won the most tournaments (12), followed by BC (4), Quebec (3), Alberta (2). The innagural event in 1947 was shared between Ontario and Quebec. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cricket Canada news release For the first time since 2005 Cricket Canada will host a 50 over national championships. The 5 team tournament to be held July 26-30 in Toronto will see teams from British Columbia, Alberta, Prairies, Ontario, and Eastern Canada compete for the Ed Bracht trophy. Regional playdowns for the Prairies team will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,7,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}