From Cricket Canada:-
\n“It is with deep regrets we announce the death of Jack Kyle, former President of Cricket Canada. Jack passed away yesterday Wednesday 21 June 2012 in Vancouver. No details are available on funeral arrangements at this time.”<\/p>\n
Eddie Norfolk has supplied some notes on this great supporter of cricket in Canada.
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\nA few notes from and about Mr. Jack Kyle <\/p>\n
\tMr. Jack Kyle became President of the Canadian Cricket Association at the November 1978 Annual General Meeting. This followed the resignation of the previous President, John Cole, after \u201celeven years of excellent service to our Association\u201d. <\/p>\n
\tWriting as the new President in the \u201cKyle\u2019s Innings\u201d column of the March 1979 edition of \u201cThe Canadian Cricketer\u201d, Mr. Kyle mentioned his introduction to the game: <\/p>\n
\t\u201cMy (Jack Kyle\u2019s) involvement with cricket stems from one day in 1939 when our class in Vancouver\u2019s Maple Grove Elementary School was visited by Basil Robinson who announced the formation of a neightbourhood junior cricket team. From that beginning it was not long before I began playing senior cricket as well, including several years with the Vancouver Juniors C.C. before moving on to 1st Division Cricket. British Columbia has a long record of junior development and their 1978 senior Interprovincial side included 7 former B.C. junior players.\u201d <\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt was only natural that 12 years ago I felt the need to put something back into the game which had been so good to me, by organizing a junior team in an area of Vancouver close to my original starting place. Encouraged by Peter Molyneux, the dean of Vancouver junior cricket, I moved along to Provincial and then National junior organizing and coaching. <\/p>\n
\u201cMany of you, I am sure, feel the same love for cricket and have the same wish to put something back into the game. There are many ways this can be done, from financial support to unpiring. I can assure you that there is no more satisfying way than junior development, whether it be recruiting, organizing, managing, or coaching juniors.\u201d <\/p>\n
He then made specific mention of Martin Stead, a member of Canada\u2019s 1979 squad for the World Cup qualification event. A squad that then became Canada\u2019s squad for the 1979 Cricket World Cup due to success on the field in the qualifiers. <\/p>\n
\t\u201cWhen I look at Martin Stead, selected for Canada\u2019s World Cup team, and remember watching him at age 4 playing with a very small bat outside (and inside!) the boundary at Brockton Point I know that junior development is possible. See what you can do to develop juniors in your area.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tA quick look at Jack Kyle\u2019s playing record, as known through scorecards on \u201cCricket Archive\u201d, shows he represented British Columbia in the inter-provincial Hiram Walker Cup in 1950, 1952 and 1955. He scored 93 before being run out in a B.C. score of 221 for eight wickets (68 overs) against Manitoba on August 2nd, 1955. He also played for Western Canada against Eastern Canada in 1958. He may well have appeared in other representative matches for which some records may exist at other sources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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