{"id":6638,"date":"2014-08-30T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:33:18","slug":"ontario-cac-beats-brampton-masters-under-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=6638","title":{"rendered":"Ontario CA&C beats Brampton Masters under the lights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ontario CA&C; Ben Davis is on the left in the back row.<\/p><\/div>\n

Brampton Masters Tranzac 185\/5 (20 ov) lost to Ontario Cricket Academy & Club 188\/3 (18.5 ov) by 7 wickets
\nBen Davis led the way with an unbeaten 97 as Ontario Cricket Academy\u00a0 & Club (OCA&C) beat Brampton Masters Tranzac under the temporary floodlights at the Mavis ground in Mississauga on Friday night.(August 29). Davis\u00a0had strong support from Nikhil Dutta made\u00a050 not out as\u00a0 OCA&C reached\u00a0a winning 186\/3 with seven balls to spare.\u00a0 Darwin Christain had top-scored with 62 not out in\u00a0Brampton Masters Tranzac’s tally of 185\/5 from 20 overs.\u00a0 Masters lost openers Hiral Patel and Rizwan Cheema cheaply, Ruvindu Gunasekera struck 39 and\u00a0Damodar Desraeth 31 as Masters moved towards a useful score on a ground where the boundaries were shortened for this\u00a0Festival match.\u00a0 Ben Davis was presented with a bat for his player of the game performance.<\/p>\n

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Peel Regional Police had earlier played against OCA&C Under-19s and Canada’s Sports Minister, Hon. Mr. Bal Gosal was on hand to talk about the Canadian cricket scene with\u00a0several members of the OCA&C and bring\u00a0greetings to \u00a0the local community who had come out to support this Mississauga Cricket Festival initiative.<\/div>\n
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Darren Ganga made an appearance at the ground late in the evening to invite\u00a0the local cricketing community to this weekend’s Trinidad\u00a0 & Tobago independence cricket tournament at the University of Toronto’s cricket ground in Scarborough, Ontario.\u00a0 Guyana and Jamaica teams are to play for the right to meet a Trinidad & Tobago team\u00a0in Sunday’s final.<\/div>\n
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It is not often that I have been at a cricket match that\u00a0took a break to announce another event of potential interest to the cricketing community at 11pm\u00a0at night.\u00a0 I have little doubt this was a personal first, then the Davis\/Dutta partnership resumed,\u00a0and the presentation of the Brandon Paltroon Memorial trophy took place. I think the\u00a0Guyana-Jamaica game is today, Jamaica also celebrates independence on August 31.\u00a0 But expect an update about Sunday’s arrangements later in the day, although an article in Share newspaper provides some further insight into the event.<\/div>\n
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Broader coverage of the 2014 Mississauga Cricket Festival will follow in due course, some of the pieces may come together during the course of Sunday’s T&T independence cricket festivities. It was tough taking still photos under the lights, but extensive video footage exists of both Friday night’s main game and the Thursday night game between Toronto Cricket Club and the OCA&C.\u00a0 Video and still photos from Thursday night were passed on to Derek Perera during the Friday\u00a0night cricketing experience which was well attended. The organizers hopes are for an expanded version of this festival in 2015.<\/div>\n
\u00a0Thanks were given to the sponsors, the Sports Minister, participating cricket clubs, the\u00a0Peel Regional Police side, St John’s Ambulance volunteers,\u00a0the cricket event volunteers and the community for supporting the tournament.\u00a0\u00a0 The organizers,\u00a0various volunteers and some of the\u00a0spectators then became the ground-staff to clean up the grounds for the night, as had been the case after Thursday’s play concluded.\u00a0.<\/div>\n

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Brampton Masters Tranzac 185\/5 (20 ov) lost to Ontario Cricket Academy & Club 188\/3 (18.5 ov) by 7 wickets Ben Davis led the way with an unbeaten 97 as Ontario Cricket Academy\u00a0 & Club (OCA&C) beat Brampton Masters Tranzac under the temporary floodlights at the Mavis ground in Mississauga on Friday night.(August 29). Davis\u00a0had strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638"}],"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=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6640,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}