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Draft schedule (again from Facebook): The draft schedule for the O50s World Cup is as follows: Round 1 (21 November) England vs. Pakistan New Zealand vs. South Africa Australia vs. Sri Lanka Wales vs. Canada Round 2 (22 November) South Africa vs. England Australia vs. New Zealand Canada vs. Sri Lank...

^ Thanks for this information. From one of the Over50WC Facebook posts: The inaugural Over-50s Cricket World Cup will be held this November/December, with 8 national teams expected to participate. The first games will be played on November 21 and teams will play in a round-robin format, before semi-...

... then there are the domestic flights to shuttle the teams between home base (Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal) and Toronto. Now factor in the cost of the Royals franchise relocation from Ottawa to Edmonton.

More details from the official launch:

• yet more costs revealed: $1M in prize money
• upto 7000 seats per match
• ~1500 players registered for the draft
• a list of 10 marquee players revealed (5 from West Indies)
• now possibly 16 players/team including 4 Canadians (one Canadian U23 player)

Some good points raised : http://www.canadacricket.com/?p=11444 As for the choice team names and associations to cities, the move certainly brings into question Mercuri's background in business of sports. The only way it makes sense is if the tournament is being marketed to a foreign audience. What ...

Where did you get the information on the salaries? Is any Canuck cricketer out there worth $90K Link to the registration page: http://www.gt20.ca/registration/ See the "Reserve Price" dropdown box. I'm not really familiar with how this works - just my best guess. Clearly the $90K would be for the S...

Player draft registration announcement from CC: http://gocricketgocanada.com/web/2018/05/09/player-registration-for-global-t20/ Tournament web site: http://www.gt20.ca Tournament dates listed as June 28th to July 16th (a Monday?), 2018 Looking at the registration page: -There are 14 "Reserve Price" ...

ICC don't seem too worried about these initial inroads by MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, etc. into markets like UK, Australia and China. When they (and BCCI) wake up one day and find the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees, or Manchester United playing regular season games in Mumbai or Kolkata and taking mone...

^ It also assumes someone at Cricket Canada thinks this information should be made public AND that CC believe their members care about what goes on at the AGM. Regardless of what Canadian cricketers think of their national body, it is quite sad to think Cricket Canada actually believe the AGM matter...

Thanks for the AGM summary! http://www.canadacricket.com/?p=11412
However, this information should be coming from the official website.