Alberta U19 Team at the 2008 Scotiabank Shield - National Under-19 Championships
08/25/08
Daniyal Fahim - Captain
Hamza Tariq - Vice Captain
Khuram Tahir
Druhpad Shah
Rizwan Saleem
Sudeepta Aurka
Yasoob Al-Haq
Zaheer Mohammed
Hamza Paracha
Ans Kafait
Farhan Pervez
Veenu Goswami
Inderpal Sidhu
Ammar Hakeem
Manager: Gordon Oakes
Coach: Rathan Moorthy
When: August 18 - 22, 2008
Where: Assiniboine Park Cricket Field
The Cricket Pitch in Assiniboine Park - flickr.com
| Group A |
Group B |
| Ontario: 3-0 |
Alberta: 2-1 |
| British Columbia: 2-1 |
Manitoba: 2-1 |
| Shield XI: 0-3 |
Quebec: 0-3 |
Stage 1 - Group Matches (Talent Evaluation)
Mon, August 18
ON 85-1 def SXI 84
AB 70-4 def QC 70
BC 82-4 def MB 80 |
Tues, August 19
BC 224 def SXI 130
MB 104 def AB 64
ON 234-9 def QC 120 |
Wed, August 20
ON 71-1 def BC 69
MB 167 def QC 157
AB 215 def SXI 88 |
Stage 2 - Knockout Matches (Scotiabank Canada
Shield)
Thursday, August 21
Scotiabank Shield Semi-Final 1:
Ontario 162 def Manitoba 70 (D/L)
Scotiabank Shield Semi-Final 2:
B.C. 74-4 def Alberta 135 (D/L)
Plate Match: Shield XI vs Quebec
Friday, August 22 (Rained Out)
Scotiabank Shield Final: Ontario vs. B.C.
Plate Challenge 1: Manitoba vs. Alberta
Plate Challenge 2: Quebec vs. Scotia Shield XI
Final Standings
Due to heavy rain, the final day of the tournament was washed out. The final standings are as follows: 2008 Scotia Shield Champion - Ontario; 2nd - B.C.; 3rd - Alberta; 4th - Manitoba; 5th - Quebec.
The national selectors and national U-19 coaching team will be on hand for
the event. At the end of the tournament they will announce a short list for
the 2009 U-19 Americas Championship
Alberta Senior Team Prepares for First Twenty/20 Nationals
05/08/08
The selectors have made their choices. After a hard fought battle in the T20 Invitational on the May 3/4 weekend. The players, tired but satisfied with the T20 format. 5 games in two days is hard at the middle of the season, never mind in the start. It was a good trial run for the Alberta boys as the Nationals being held in Toronto using the same T20 format on the May long weekend.his time it will be 6 games in two days.
And the Team is...
Manzoor Chaudhary - Captain
Sumit Thapliyal - Vice Captain
Nadeem Sheikh
Khurram Chohan
Grant Broadhurst
Dev Sharma
Shajib Darain
Anuraj Gupta
Abdul Suttar
Zulfikar Hussan
Parvaeen Saroye
Tyson Gordon
Shahzad Bashir
Ahzum Ali
Kendon Ottley
Manager: Steve Dutchin
Coach: Rathan Moorthy
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Alberta Cricket Prepares for First Twenty/20 Tounament
04/29/08
 The Alberta Cricket Association T20 Tournament is set to get underway, May 3th and 4th in Calgary at Riley Park. The ACA has passed on an open invitation to all Calgary cricketers, supporters, and enthusiasts to attend the tournament and cheer on teams for both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Games start Saturday at 9am with the team from the CDCL playing Saskatchewan and EDCL playing a team of Alberta Selects. The teams will play a round robin format on Saturday, followed by a Semi Final and Finals on Sunday. Games will take place at 9am, 12:45pm and 4pm on Saturday. Sunday, the Semis go at 9am with the Finals going off at 12:45pm. This tournament is a warm up for the boys from Saskatchewan and those selected for Alberta to travel to Toronto for the Nationals, May 17th to 19th.
The newest addition to the cricket family is causing a fuss worldwide. In 2007, the ICC hosted its first T20 World Cup in South Africa. A young Indian team came out on top of the heap. Soon after that the first of two T20 leagues started in India. The second of these two leagues has taken the cricket world by storm. The IPL is to cricket what professial sports are across the world. T20 may change the face of cricket for ever.
This year the Canadian Nationals is being played in the T20 format. This is the form of the game Cricket Canada feels best suits Canada chances on the world stage.
Judge for yourself, come see what the fuss is about.
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ACA Release Canada Cup Squad
07/18/06
The following 13 players will represent Alberta at the Canada Cup u19 Tournament to be held in Edmonton from August 7th - 11th. The 5 participating provinces will take part in a round robin format at Victoria Park and Millwoods Cricket Ground. Stay tuned for more information.
1. Talal Paracha - CGY - Capt
2. Zain Ahmed - EDM - V Capt
3. Jaskirat Kahlon - EDM
4. Rizwan Saleem - CGY
5. Akashdeep Brar - CGY
6. Divyang Patel - EDM
7. Sudeeptha Aurka - CGY
8. Yawar Abbas - CGY
9. Hamza Tariq (wk) - CGY
10. Abdullah Raheem - EDM
11. Daniyal Fahim - CGY
12. Raoul Breytenbach - EDM
13. Ashish Deed -EDM
Manager: Rathan Moorthy
Coach: Abe Moore
Support: Shajib Jaidad
Canada Cup Participants: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec
ACA Release Squad for Western Canadian u23 Tournament
05/15/06
The following 13 players will represent Alberta at the ACA Western Canadian u23 Tournament held in Edmonton from May 20th - 23rd. The 4 Western Provinces will go head to head over May long weekend at Victoria Park and Millwoods Cricket Ground.
1. Kendon Ottley - EDM - Capt
2. Shajib Jaidad - CGY - V-Capt
3. Rajat Karval - CGY
4. Nasir Abbass - CGY
5. Yawar Abbass - CGY
6. Talal Paracha - CGY
7. Daniyal Fahim - CGY
8. Habib UR-rehmen - CGY
9. Adnan Kamal - EDM?
10. Nikhil Nagpal - EDM
11. Ahzum Ali - EDM
12. Nafeez Chowdhry - EDM
13. Marnes de Plessis - EDM
14. Jacob Ramkelewan - EDM
Manager: Mukul Ahuja
Coach: Abe Moore
CCA Names Four Albertan's to 40 Man Training Squad
01/27/06
 As Alberta continually looks to gain representation on the national team, hopes for 2006 will lie in a share of familiar and new faces. On Friday, the CCA released its 40 man training squad including perennial prospects Manzoor Chaudhary and Easan Sinnathamby. New comers Charanjiv Dhami and Edmonton's wicket keeping sensation Kendon Ottely will round out the four.
After a good Alberta showing at the 2005 IPT, Chaudhary, Sinnathamby, Dhami and Ottely all gained from the increased exposure and look toward the opportunity of representing Canada in 2006.
Congratulations go out to all four Alberta players on this recognition.
Click here for the complete list.
Gooden to Receive Prestigious Award
11/07/05
Spencer Gooden, a fixture in Calgary cricket for over 3 decades, and a tireless volunteer year in and year out has been recognized for his contributions to the province of Alberta.
On November 18th Gooden will receive the Alberta Centennial Medal in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the province of Alberta.
On behalf of all cricketers in Calgary and Alberta a heartfelt thanks to Spencer and a hearty congratulations.
ACA Shuffles Executive
10/31/05
 After a successful and innovative 2 years at the helm of the ACA, Raj Sidhu has shifted roles in the ACA executive. Sidhu and Chris James have traded positions with the backing of the ACA General membership as James becomes the new president of the association. Joining the team for 2005-2006 are new secretary Muhammad Pasha and new treasurer Nadeem Altaf. Mukul Ahuja was re-elected to his second term as ACA junior coordinator.
Gujarat Reclaims Tahir Cup
9/30/05
 Congratulations to Eddmonton's Gujarat Cricket Club on reclaiming the Tahir Cup after an impressive victory over Calgary's CanAsia Cricket Club.
The match played on a beautiful late September day at Victoria Park gave little for the visitors to be happy about as an batting attack led by Gujarat and man of the match winning batsmen Nilesh Patel (99*) and opening partner Harish Patel (73)
left a strong CanAsia bowling attack searching for answers.
Click here for the E&DCL match report
Alberta Bound
MCC in Alberta 2005
9/30/05 - Tony Pasternak
 In the timeless debate on the merits of journey versus destination, for Gordon Lightfoot and his songwriting back in 1971 the latter was the clear winner. 34 years later it was ditto for Col. Tim Lerwil's and Captain Tom Harrison's Marylebone Cricket Club A Grade squad and the Calgary stop on their 2005 Canada tour. On a reasonably frigid late September day at Riley Park, MCC achieved their prime aim of promoting hi-grade cricket in the outposts by sporting example on the field and professional behaviour off it, first quickly adapting to the somewhat fierce weather conditions and ultimately exposing the possibilities for scoring groundstrokes on Riley's perennially slow outfield, and finally with their attack tying the Alberta XI batsmen in more knots than a herd of rodeo calves.
When Lightfoot was penning his Alberta classic, the MCC's Neil Kendrick was likely just off his bowling mark, no doubt already toddling in to deliver back-yard spin back in Bromley. In these parts, five seconds is a good calf-roping time, but the ex-Surrey left-arm convinced for an unbroken 10-over spell that variably-flighted, good-length deliveries can repeatedly lassoo their dogies in much less time than that.
With nine-test veteran Richard Illingworth simultaneously and elegantly constructing his own 10- over web from the other end, and with the southpaw pair sharing six wickets equally between them for a paltry 27 runs, the paralyzation of Alberta's batting was complete. It quivered a little while keeper Anuraj Gupta, last-minute replacement for Edmonton's Damien Persaud, and Rathan (Rabbit) Moorthy forged the best Alberta partnership, but that was for the last wicket, though from 84 for 9 it seemed almost a micro-triumph that AB had passed half the MCC total of 235.
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