{"id":8999,"date":"2016-05-25T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2016-05-25T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T09:12:21","slug":"sunny-view-double-tops-in-north-peel-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8999","title":{"rendered":"Sunny View Double Tops in North Peel Cricket!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0180<\/a>Sunny View Middle School (Brampton) beat Roberta Bondar Public School (Brampton) in the Final\u2019s \u201cSuper Over\u201d to capture the North Peel Boys Championship on Tuesday May 24, 2016 at \u201cDixie Hwy 407 Park\u201d, using the title at the park\u2019s entrance. Both schools scored 24 runs from 5 overs in the Final. Sunny View then made 11 runs in the Super Over and restricted Roberta Bondar to 7 runs to win the Final. Sunny View\u2019s girls team had captured the North Peel Girls Cricket Championship last Friday (May 20, 2016). So a championship double for Sunny View was completed on Monday.
\nThe third round of Group matches had a limit of 5 overs per innings, rather than 6 overs due to time constraints. The Final and third-place playoff games were also played with a 5 overs per innings limit. So, as previously stated, Sunny View and Roberta Bondar each scored 24 runs from 5 overs in the Final, so the game went to that extra over per side to decide the Championship.
\nEight Schools in the Boys Playoffs
\nEight schools qualified for the North Peel Boys playoffs from a qualifying field of about 30 schools. Beryl Ford Public School (Brampton) began the day by edging out Roberta Bondar 40\/39 in Group B, then lost 29\/27 to Lougheed Middle School (Brampton) and wilted 29\/14 later in the day against Robert H. Lagerquist Senior Public School (Brampton). In an event where a wide counts as a basic 2 runs, with a possibility of the batters making an extra run if the wide ball beats the wicketkeeper, Lagerquist\u2019s bowlers with a good line in this game.<\/p>\n

Roberta Bondar rallied with a 35\/31 win against Lagerquist then followed-up with a win against Lougheed to win Group B and qualify for the Final. Lagerquist had begun the day with 29 runs for 7 wickets from 6 overs and bowled Lougheed out for 21 runs from 5.5 overs to win by 8 runs. There are six balls in an over in the normal course of cricket, these days. So Lougheed was out 1 ball before the limit of 6 overs in this match.
\nGroup A began with Sunny View edging out Sir John A MacDonald Senior Public School (Brampton) with a 37\/36 win. Having beaten a school named after Canada\u2019s first Prime Minister, Sunny View beat a school named after an Ontario Premier, W.G. Davis Senior Public School (Brampton) 34-29. Sir John A. MacDonald beat Cheyne Middle School (Brampton) 37\/19 and beat W.G. Davis 27\/25 to qualify for the bronze medal playoff game.
\nAppreciated Event Not Widely Known<\/strong>
\nThe North Peel outdoor championship for boys and girls has been running for a few years, based on what I was told and heard from different coaches and tournament coordinator Mr. Andrew Laidlaw during Friday\u2019s (May 20) and yesterday\u2019s (May 24) playoffs. Awareness of these championships has generally been well known by teachers involved in school sports. Mr. Laidlaw\u2019s efforts were well appreciated, based on comments by attending coaches. Mr. Laidlaw, in turn, was particularly happy to see the enthusiasm of the girls taking part in Friday\u2019s
\nchampionship.
\nIt may seem strange, but it is fitting to support this initial report about Tuesday\u2019s North Peel Boys Championship with a picture of the backs of the heads of two unnamed players. But, it is a reflection on the broader realms of what I often think of as \u201canonymous cricket in Canada\u201d. So many simple, basic questions exist, even in representative domestic cricket in Canada, indeed even in Canadian Under-19 teams: who knows who the teams are, or who knows who the teams are?
\nBeyond the teams and players, grounds are sometimes used that are almost featureless in terms of comforts for players, coaches and, should they exist, spectators.
\nBut in some situations, such as schools and junior cricket, there are restrictions on what information can be disclosed if clearance is not known to exist from parents or guardians of those below a particular age.
\nMiddle of Nowhere Ground?<\/strong>
\nAlthough yesterday\u2019s ground is called after two nearby main roads, one now a pay-for-use highway, one or two mentioned it being \u201cin the middle of nowhere\u201d. The nearby Pearson International Airport results in a large amount of nearby land being used for that airport and the presence of much supporting services, including distribution, truck and container depots without any local large retail mall or retail complexes. Someone even pointed out that when leaving the ground by road, you can only turn right and head north.
\nIndeed, fate meant the bus I used to reach the ground did not seem to stop until Highway 407 had been crossed on Tuesday, seemingly missing the stop next to the park entrance. So I made use of a Country Style Donuts facility to have breakfast. It seemed to be a source of amusement that breakfast was ordered around 11.30am. But \u201cAll Day Breakfast\u201d was advertised and provided some basic food and drink. So after some food, the walk south, down Dixie, to the ground provided the opportunity to take some pictures. Pictures of the relatively faceless expanse of soccer grounds, with some cricket features, that comprise the current \u201cDixie Hwy 407 Park\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dixie Hwy 407 sports ground<\/p><\/div>\n

Surely, for me, it was a golden opportunity if on life\u2019s journey I seek to \u201calways look on the bright side of life\u201d, as a song in the British \u201cMonty Python\u201d TV series implored. Indeed, I had been open to the possibility of first visiting Centennial Park, Etobicoke on Tuesday morning before moving on to Dixie Hwy 407 Park. But news via e-mail confirmed the Toronto District High Schools Boys Western Division cricket semi-finals and final had been completed last Friday. North Albion Collegiate won. So it became first stop: North Peel Cricket Boys Championship.
\nCongratulations<\/strong>
\nCongratulations to Sunny View on winning both the Girls and Boys Championships, best wishes to all the players and teachers who have created these events. Special thanks to event coordinator
\nMr. Andrew Laidlaw.
\nCricket\u2019s Broader Needs in the GTA, Ontario and Canada<\/strong>
\nIn the longer term, those at the helm of Ontario and Greater Toronto Area (GTA) cricket might do some work in estimating the cost of making infrastructure improvements to various parks with basic or better cricket playing facilities, and seek funding support from government and the corporate world so such improvements become a reality. Cricket could do with some \u201cmighty acts\u201d by those elected as leaders of the sport at all levels from club, through league, province and to the national helm, in my opinion. My hopes may not be high, short term, as a result of last Friday\u2019s Cricket Canada elections. Hopes that could improve with evidence of solid improvements to past performances by some of Canadian cricket\u2019s proclaimed leaders.
\nAt least one of the teams on Tuesday only had two pairs of batting pads. A situation that resulted in some delays, notwithstanding the prospect that although a majority of players may be right- handed batters, some bat left-handed, so at least three pairs of pads would be needed and preferably at least four pairs.
\nIn a schools context, this would require budgets to be presented and approved in a process that would involve many conflicting requests with significantly different cost-benefits in the overall scheme of things. A budgeting and approval process that is likely to be more substantial, at present, than at various Canadian cricket clubs and representative bodies of different levels.
\nBroader issues for a different day, notwithstanding the presence in my bags on Tuesday of a copy of the \u201cSpecial Review for the Premier of Ontario: Year-end Grants Provided by the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration\u201d [Office of the Auditor General of Ontario, July 26, 2007\u201d.]
\nCertainly my cricket interests in life were free from using the word \u201cnotwithstanding\u201d before I first ventured to Canada in 1984. I doubt I had used the word in any other written context until the last 20-or so years. But it adds a certain Canadian flavour, as would maple syrup. Hopefully, in short-years to come some of the players in these North Peel championships may find their way on merit into Ontario then Canadian junior and senior representative teams.
\nEddie Norfolk May 25, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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