Draft:Canada at the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup


The 2024 edition will be the debut appearance of the Canada cricket team. They qualified for this tournament by winning the American qualifier. They are among twenty teams competing in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

Squad edit

Canada edit

The Cricket Canada announced their squad on 1 May 2024.[1][2]

Coach:   Pubudu Dassanayake

S/N Player Date of birth Batting Bowling style Domestic team
23 Saad Bin Zafar (c) (1986-11-10)10 November 1986 (aged 37) Left Slow left-arm orthodox Toronto Nationals
84 Dilpreet Bajwa (2001-01-04)4 January 2001 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break Montreal Tigers
37 Navneet Dhaliwal (1988-10-10)10 October 1988 (aged 35) Right Right-arm medium Mississauga Panthers
19 Jeremy Gordon (1987-01-20)20 January 1987 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast Brampton Wolves
20 Dillon Heyliger (1989-10-21)21 October 1989 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium-fast Surrey Jaguars
45 Aaron Johnson (1991-03-16)16 March 1991 (aged 33) Right Right-arm off break Brampton Wolves
98 Nicholas Kirton (1998-05-06)6 May 1998 (aged 25) Left Right-arm off break Toronto Nationals
43 Shreyas Movva (wk) (1993-09-04)4 September 1993 (aged 30) Right Mississauga Panthers
6 Rayyan Pathan (1991-12-06)6 December 1991 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium Vancouver Knights
5 Kaleem Sana (1994-01-01)1 January 1994 (aged 30) Right Left-arm medium-fast Montreal Tigers
81 Junaid Siddiqui (1985-03-25)25 March 1985 (aged 39) Right Right-arm Leg break -
3 Pargat Singh (1992-04-13)13 April 1992 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break Surrey Jaguars
49 Ravinderpal Singh (1988-10-14)14 October 1988 (aged 35) Right Right-arm medium Vancouver Knights
58 Kanwarpal Tathgur (wk) (1993-08-05)5 August 1993 (aged 30) Right - Vancouver Knights
18 Harsh Thaker (1997-10-24)24 October 1997 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break Vancouver Knights
Standby players[1]
11 Ammar Khalid (1987-06-29)29 June 1987 (aged 36) Right Right-arm medium-fast Surrey Jaguars
29 Parveen Kumar (1994-05-29)29 May 1994 (aged 29) Left Slow left-arm orthodox Mississauga Panthers
12 Jatinder Matharu (1992-09-06)6 September 1992 (aged 31) Left Right-arm medium-fast Surrey Jaguars
TBA Tajinder Singh TBA Right Right arm medium-fast -
TBA Aaditya Varadharajan TBA Left Right-arm off break -

Marketing edit

Toronto Blue Jays hosted the second edition of Cricket Night at the park at Rogers center on May 10th. Canada's captain Saad Bin Zafar got the opportunity of throwing the ceremonial first pitch of the game. Canada unveil brand new kit for their debut T20 World Cup as-well. [3]

Warm-up matches edit

The ICC announced that Canada will be playing two warm up matches in Texas.[4]

27 May 2024
10:30
Canada  
v
    Nepal

30 May 2024
15:30
v
  Canada

Tournament progression edit

Group stage Super 8 Semifinal Final Overall Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
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Result
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Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
  United States
1 June 2024
  Ireland
7 June 2024
  Pakistan
11 June 2024
  India
15 June 2024
TBD


Group stage edit

Points table edit

Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR Qualification
1   India (A1) 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Super 8s
2   Pakistan (A2) 0 0 0 0 0
3   Canada 0 0 0 0 0
4   Ireland 0 0 0 0 0
5   United States (H) 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 1 June 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo
(H) Host





References edit

  1. ^ a b "Debutants Canada name squad for T20 World Cup tilt". International Cricket Council. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Matches | ICC Men's T20 World Cup, 2024".
  3. ^ "Blue Jays' second annual Cricket Night helping Canada grow the game". MLB.com.
  4. ^ "Warm-up fixtures announced for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024". International Cricket Council. 16 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.