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Player draft: X May 30th X May 31st X June 1st O June 3rd (according to video on CC Facebook) Not encouraging. I know the organizers are under a lot of pressure and adversity to get this tournament up and running but they will have to up their game if they want people to buy the tickets.

I wonder whether these hires have been made yet. Brand and Marketing Manager The social media platform is actively promoting GT20 but it is very basic - no interaction with Facebook users. The website is lagging badly behind. Advisor: Policy and Special Projects No evidence of this hire being made y...

^ That is the great fear: a repeat of the 2012 Rogers Centre debacle but at least an order of magnitude greater. One hopes Cricket Canada has learned enough to demand the players' salaries and CC's expenditures were guaranteed before they signed the deal with Mercuri. But who knows? Mercuri's belief...

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" ...