Cricket Canada will be mighty pleased with the performances of their development squad, that took part in the West Indies (Windies) Super50 tournament in Oct 2019. Although the team consisted of seniors squad members like Nitish Kumar and Harsh Thaker, most of the remaining squad got to experience top-level domestic List-A competition during the Super50 tournament, in which they triumphed over the defending champions, Combined Colleges and Campuses Marooners in both their group stage matches.
Canada were placed in Group A of the West Indies Super50 Cup and played a double round robin series of matches in St Kitts against Barbados Pride, Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners, Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Jamaica Scorpions. The likes of Harsh Thaker, Rayyan Pathan, Kaleem Sana, Shahid Ahmadzai and Kanwar Mann put up impressive performances during the tournament and will push for places in the senior squad, once Canada gets ready for the 2nd round of ICC CWC Challenge League Group A tournament in 2020 in Malaysia.
Most of the senior squad members took a break as the Super50 tournament started very closely after Canada finished their campaign at ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers in UAE. Nicholas Kirton, who made his debut for Canada in the Qualifiers, however, represented Barbados in the Super50 event.
Brief Scores
Leeward Islands 257 all out in 49.1 overs (Rahkeem Cornwall 92, Kieran Powell 58, Jeremiah Louis 40, Harsh Thaker 3/24, Kanwar Mann 2/63, Nitish Kumar 1/33, Yax Patel 1/36) beat Canada 187 all out in 42.4 overs (Kanwarpal Tathgur 49, Nitish Kumar 27, Rayyan Pathan 26, Sheeno Berridge 4/36, Jason Campbell 2/19, Rahkeem Cornwall 2/30) by 70 runs
Canada 161 all out in 48.1 overs (Arslan Khan 76, Chemar Holder 3/32, Roshon Primus 3/34, Shamar Springer 2/22) lost to Barbados 162/1 in 30 overs (Kjorn Ottley 70 n.o, Nicholas Kirton 56 n.o, Shahid Ahmadzai 1/21) by 9 wickets
Canada 249 all out in 49.1 overs (Nitish Kumar 102, Shahid Ahmadzai 73, Jeet Mehta 34, Akeem Jordan 5/33, Carlos Brathwaite 4/40) beat Combined C&C 149 all out in 35.1 overs (Jonathan Drakes 40, Akeem Jordan 37 n.o, Kaleem Sana 3/37, Kanwar Mann 3/38, Yax Patel 2/10) by 100 runs
Canada 243/6 in 50 overs (Nitish Kumar 65, Kanwarpal Tathgur 39, Jeet Mehta 33, Shereyas Movva 26 n.o, Dennis Bulli 2/47, Oshane Thomas 2/61) lost to Jamaica 246/6 in 43.3 overs (Rovman Powell 100 n.o, Nkruma Bonner 49, Assad Fudadin 37, Kanwar Mann 2/33, Harsh Thaker 1/20, Shahid Ahmadzai 1/47) by 4 wickets
Canada 244/9 in 50 overs (Harsh Thaker 60, Nitish Kumar 42, Rayyan Pathan 33, Jeet Mehta 32, Dennis Bulli 4/40, Oshane Thomas 2/39) lost to Jamaica 246/7 in 47.5 overs (Nkruma Bonner 73 n.o, Andre McCarthy 40, Rovman Powell 38, Rayyan Pathan 2/33, Kanwar Mann 1/49, Shahid Ahmadzai 1/50) by 3 wickets
Leeward Islands 232/9 in 50 overs (Devon Thomas 53, Montcin Hodge 34, Colin Archibald 32 n.o, Rayyan Pathan 4/53, Shahid Ahmadzai 3/46, Harsh Thaker 1/36) beat Canada 183 all out in 44 overs (Rayyan Pathan 44, Harsh Thaker 40, Kanwar Mann 25 n.o, Colin Archibald 3/36, Quinton Boatswain 3/37, Sheeno Berridge 2/50) by 49 runs
Canada 154 all out in 43.5 overs (Kanwar Mann 44, Shahid Ahmadzai 39 n.o, Miguel Cummins 3/19, Shamar Springer 2/31, Ashley Nurse 2/46) lost to Barbados 156/3 in 22.3 overs (Kjorn Ottley 50, Zachary McCaskie 38 n.o, Jonathan Carter 32, Nitish Kumar 2/31, Harmandeep Singh 1/31) by 7 wickets
Canada 252 all out in 50 overs (Harsh Thaker 68 n.o, Rayyan Pathan 46, Kaleem Sana 38, Larry Joseph 3/38, Jalarnie Seales 3/62, Kavesh Kantasingh 2/24) beat Combined C&C 201 all out in 44.2 overs (Paul Palmer 105, Romaine Morrison 58, Kaleem Sana 4/24, Harsh Thaker 3/29, Shahid Ahmadzai 3/37) by 51 runs
