The Twenty20 cricket extravaganza comes to Canada in October month with a bang.
Fresh from the sponsorship by Scotiabank, Cricket Canada Tuesday has unveiled the nation’s first premier cricket tournament, that to be known as the Scotiabank National T20 Cricket Championship.and It will to be held at King City right near Toronto May 17 and 18.
Eight teams from just the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia will vie for the Scotiabank National Cricket Trophy.
Cricket Canada, which is a regulating body of cricket in Canada, even said the eight teams will play 24 games over the two-day, entertainment and rightly filled extravaganza, including bhangra and band performances.
The championship will feature that Canadian national players such as Umar Bhatti, Henry Osinde, Geoff Barnett, Sunil Dhaniram, and Sanjay Thuraisingam.
Cricket Canada CEO Atul Ahuja, who has vowed to make cricket the nation’s top sport, told IANS: “In the light of what is happening in the IPL in India at the moment, what we are undertaking in Canada is a major step to restore this sport to its former glory which it enjoyed till ice hockey replaced it.”
Ahuja, who attended the IPL opening in India recently, said the owners of league teams have promised to send their teams to Canada.
“All of them - Indian cricket board chief Sharad Pawar, Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Mallaya, Rajiv Shukla and others promised to send Twenty20 teams to Canada in the summer to help us groom players. We have a huge talent from the South Asian and Caribbean communities in Canada,” he said.
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