Canadian domestic cricket

[Victorian]

Now to be the women’s. Five teams - two from Ontario, one from eastern provinces, Alberta and BC.

[Victorian]

MCC are playing against a Team BC XI this Thursday the 19th in Vancouver. Captained by Uday Bhagwan and including a friend and sometime teammate of mine Kieran Parfey. Two T20s in one day.

[Victorian]

BC Selects won one out of two T20s. A Victoria guy took MoM in one of them with three wickets and another Victoria guy was not out!

[Victorian]

Cricket BC has a HP pathway set up this year. There are open trials with four teams formed as a result. They play eight T20s, players must commit to playing at least four, and then two teams, including BC based Canada players play three T20s. They’ll play on turf.
A good initiative. I have two issues -

I, and I think most everyone else on Vancouver Island, heard about this on Tuesday. The trials are on Thursday.
The games will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays making it very difficult for Island players to participate (I assume all games will be in greater Vancouver). There’s a four game minimum commitment and commitment is taken into consideration for future selection.

[Victorian]

There was a thing last year called ‘High Performance Cricket on Vancouver Island’. It was for senior and junior players. To say the least, it has room to move onwards and upwards.

[Victorian]

There is an open trial in Victoria this Friday.

[Victorian]

There’s a Maritime Cup T20 tournament in Halifax this weekend. Teams from Halifax (two), PEI and New Brunswick.

[Victorian]

A team nominally representing Victoria won the BC Big Bash this past weekend. They won $100 000 in prize money. Captained by Dilpreet Bajwa with, I’ve heard, three other Canada players.

[Victorian]

So the BC Super League was advertised as involving open trials, leading to selection for four teams, which were placed on Facebook, playing eight games, which became 20 and 50 overs because that is what the National Championship will be, leading to selection of two teams which would include Canada players from BC which would play three t20 games which would lead to selection for the BC team in the Nationals.

Well, the trials gave two days notice, as, I hear, did the games so nobody showed up to the games, which didn’t happen and anyway, the team had already been selected before all of this started.
Farcical.

[Victorian]

Men’s National Championship Aug 5-13

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