{"id":2959,"date":"2012-04-29T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2012-04-29T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T19:35:24","slug":"last-day-washout-should-leave-canadian-women-as-icc-americas-t20-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"Last day washout should leave Canadian Women as ICC Americas T20 champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

All three matches were washed out on the last day (April 28) of the ICC Americas Women\u2019s the T20 championships in George Town, Grand Cayman,. So the battle for first place between Canada and the USA, featuring the two unbeaten sides, did not take place. Late Saturday night (Toronto time) there did not seem to be official confirmation on the ICC\u2019s website, nor on the Cricket Canada site.
\nHowever, without using any fancy calculators or spreadsheets to calculate net run rates, it would seem that Canada would seem to be ahead of the USA on net run rate.
\nUpdate: the ICC have confirmed to us that Canada have won the tournament and will go to the ICC Women\u2019s World Twenty20 Qualifiers. As per the playing conditions, with the last day a wash-out, it meant Canada qualified by virtue of topping the table with a superior net run-rate to the USA.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nCanada scored 557 runs in 65 overs and conceded 237 runs in 65 overs. The USA scored 511 runs in 80 overs and conceded 259 runs in 79 overs.
\nSo Canada is plus 320 runs from a balanced 65 overs. The USA is plus 252 and the all out
\nCayman score in 19 overs doubtless counts as 20 overs in the NRR calculations, so the 252
\naverages out against 80 overs.
\nCanada\u2019s wins against Brazil and the Cayman Islands brought scores of 181 for 3 wickets and
\n191 for 4 wickets, as well as bigger winning margins than the USA achieved against the same
\nopponents. The USA had a bad start against Argentina and won by just 10 runs in a game where both sides
\nbatted for 20 overs. Friday\u2019s five over slog between Canada and Argentina had a higher scoring
\nrate per side and Canada won by 11 runs. The USA had a slightly better win over Bermuda than
\nCanada, but that would seem to make little difference overall.
\nSome might think that someone in the ICC\u2019s Dubai headquarters might have calculated the
\noutcome, as women\u2019s cricket is a priority. But concept and reality, mission statement and reality,
\nand turning such buzzword mission statements and concepts (not to mention pretty logos) seem
\nnot to meet in a wide range of fields these days.
\nHow many of Canada\u2019s 34.7 million population, or the 310 or so million people in the USA are
\nhanging on for official word from the ICC\u2019s Dubai offices on the outcome of this tournament?
\nSadly, probably not too many, especially with \u201cSouth Asian Heritage Month\u201d and \u201cAsian
\nHeritage Month\u201d just a few days away in May on the Canadian side of the border. The film
\n\u201cCricket and the Meaning of Life\u201d is due to be shown in a couple of Toronto Public libraries
\nduring May as part of those commemorations.
\nCricket was going to be the number one sport in Canada by around 2015 at one of the first
\nshowings of \u201cCricket and the Meaning of Life\u201d, according to a former President of the sport\u2019s
\ngoverning body in Canada. Someone in the current leadership might have inspired news of the
\nofficial outcome of this T20 event before the witching hour in Toronto. But some ghost might
\nsort things out officially in the next few hours, before the day ends off the coast of British
\nColumbia. Perhaps there are chirping crickets in some fields across western Canada proclaiming
\nthe official outcome. Or even from the top of the Canadian Rockies. Hope, it is said, springs
\neternal. Enjoy your cricket, keep breathing and keep hoping. [Eddie Norfolk]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All three matches were washed out on the last day (April 28) of the ICC Americas Women\u2019s the T20 championships in George Town, Grand Cayman,. So the battle for first place between Canada and the USA, featuring the two unbeaten sides, did not take place. Late Saturday night (Toronto time) there did not seem to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"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=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}