^ Indeed, more of the same. The Ontario candidate for President appears to have backed out.
Saw the Cricket Council of Alberta were congratulating the President on his re-election:
"Mr. Bajwa has been reaffirmed as the President of Cricket Canada for another 2 year term.
We would like to extend our congratulations to him and his team. And we hope that, as promised and as proposed, this will bring forth a new era of cooperation and consolidation within the entire cricketing community of Canada and Alberta."
It seems a bit strange since Cricket Canada under Mr. Bajwa were still fighting Cricket Council of Alberta in 2020 and 2021 in their bid to become cricket's provincial sports representative in Alberta. Wonder how Alberta found the "cooperation", then? What consolidation took place in the past two years? All I see is the same out-of-date CC website, the same failing development structures and the same lack of communication/transparency. But apparently everyone is doing a great job ...
Cricket Canada AGM
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Highlights from CC's article on the May 2022 AGM: https://cricketcanada.org/news-single?nid=209
Plans:
-launching of a new High Performance League (no details on whether this is for men or women)
-a revamped domestic structure to include a Canada National T20 tournament
-execution of a new Strategic Plan
-launching of new website
A "high-perfomance" league (unless it is going pay the cricketers) has the minimal effort involved. It may be nothing more that tinkering with an existing league to increase the quality slightly or giving some opportunities to youth. It may still only be weekend cricket. This does not go nearly far enough toward some kind of academy structure for developing U25 players.
Will wait to see what is in the Strategic Plan. I have some hope since this is one of the last things VP Liverman worked on. Does CC have funding to implement it?
No mention of GT20 for 2022 from the AGM. That has to be concerning. It is surely too late to run it for late June/early July slot. Now there is the "National Big Bash" running at King City over the August long weekend.
Plans:
-launching of a new High Performance League (no details on whether this is for men or women)
-a revamped domestic structure to include a Canada National T20 tournament
-execution of a new Strategic Plan
-launching of new website
A "high-perfomance" league (unless it is going pay the cricketers) has the minimal effort involved. It may be nothing more that tinkering with an existing league to increase the quality slightly or giving some opportunities to youth. It may still only be weekend cricket. This does not go nearly far enough toward some kind of academy structure for developing U25 players.
Will wait to see what is in the Strategic Plan. I have some hope since this is one of the last things VP Liverman worked on. Does CC have funding to implement it?
No mention of GT20 for 2022 from the AGM. That has to be concerning. It is surely too late to run it for late June/early July slot. Now there is the "National Big Bash" running at King City over the August long weekend.
Re: Cricket Canada AGM
2024 AGM set for weekend of April 13/14 in Toronto.
https://www.cricketcanada.org/news-deta ... -Positions
8 nominations for President including the incumbent. Perhaps not a surprise now that Cricket Canada finds itself in its best financial position ever. There are resources to back whatever vision the board has for the game in Canada.
One presidential candidate seems to be former Afghan player and coach, then Canada coaching staff member, Daulat Khan.
Among the Director candidates appears to be former Canada U19, Darius D’Souza.
It is hard to say how much credit the current President should get for the rosy situation in which CC is now. He has overseen Canada's successful return to ODIs and T20 WC qualification. The board also signed onto the Boundaries North relationship that is seemingly providing unprecedented sponsorship resources to the men's team. Was Rashpal Bajwa instrumental in creating this relationship or were the board approached by the inventment group ? Either way, there is no urgency to unseat him. Things have definitely improved.
https://www.cricketcanada.org/news-deta ... -Positions
8 nominations for President including the incumbent. Perhaps not a surprise now that Cricket Canada finds itself in its best financial position ever. There are resources to back whatever vision the board has for the game in Canada.
One presidential candidate seems to be former Afghan player and coach, then Canada coaching staff member, Daulat Khan.
Among the Director candidates appears to be former Canada U19, Darius D’Souza.
It is hard to say how much credit the current President should get for the rosy situation in which CC is now. He has overseen Canada's successful return to ODIs and T20 WC qualification. The board also signed onto the Boundaries North relationship that is seemingly providing unprecedented sponsorship resources to the men's team. Was Rashpal Bajwa instrumental in creating this relationship or were the board approached by the inventment group ? Either way, there is no urgency to unseat him. Things have definitely improved.
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Don't see a SINGLE non-South Asian name for ANY of the positions.
So much for cricket "fastest growing sport" in Canada.
So much for cricket "fastest growing sport" in Canada.
Re: Cricket Canada AGM
I didn't think CC would change leadership when things are going so well for the organization, but Amjad Bajwa has been elected the new President. Like Rashpal Bajwa, he is a former Cricket BC President.