The Canadian Men’s National Cricket Team is gearing up for their T20 World Cup debut as they are set to participate in the upcoming 2024 T20 World Cup for the very first time in their Cricket history and this year’s mega event will commence from 2nd June in the United States of America and the West Indies. Canada’s debut in the T20 World Cup is a noteworthy achievement which signals an important turning point for the country’s developing Cricket landscape. This debut just goes on to signify years of hard work, passion and dedication towards the game of the Canadians.
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The participation of the Canadian Men’s National Cricket Team in the 2024 T20 World Cup brings an important change in the traditional landscape of the ICC T20 World Cup which was previously dominated by established Cricket playing nations. This inclusion goes on to show Cricket’s global growth as a sport and possible emergence of new participants on the global stage.
Captain Saad Bin Zafar will be seen handling the leadership duties of the North American team in the 2024 T20 World Cup and Canada’s squad includes a mixture of highly experienced players and promising youngsters, who are eager to prove themselves at the biggest stage of the game. Youngsters like Shreyas Movva and Nicholar Kirton will be ones to watch out for.
Kaleem Sana and Aaron Johnson, who have a lot of experience of playing International Cricket are a part of the 15 player squad for the upcoming 2024 T20 World Cup. Surprisingly, Nikhil Dutta has been ignored by the selection committee while Tajinder Singh will be traveling as a reserve player. Other reserve players include Aamar Khalid, Parveen Kumar, Aaditya Varadharajan and Jatinder Matharu.
Canada’s Squad for the 2024 T20 World Cup
Saad Bin Zafar (Captain), Dilpreet Bajwa, Aaron Johnson, Harsh Thaker,Dilon Heylinger, Junaid Siddiqui, Jeremy Gordon, Kanwarpal Tathgur, Kaleem Sana, Nicholas Kirton, Navneet Dhaliwal, Pargat Singh, Shreyas Movva, Ravinderpal Singh and Rayyankhan Pathan
Traveling Reserves: Aaditya Varadharajan, Tajinder Singh, Jatinder Matharu, Ammar Khalid and Parveen Kumar
Canada’s full schedule for the 2024 T20 World Cup
The Canadian Men’s National Cricket Team are a part of Group A alongside India, Pakistan, Ireland and co – hosts USA.
The Saad Bin Zafar led team will kick off their T20 World Cup campaign with the opening encounter against North American rivale USA on 2nd June. Then they will take on Ireland on 7th June before taking on Pakistan on 11th June. Canada’s final group stage encounter will be against India on 15th June.
Canada’s Playing 11 for the 2024 T20 World Cup (Expected)
Aaron Johnson
Navneet Dhaliwal
R Pathan
Nicholas Kirton
Pargat Singh
Shreyas Movva (wk)
Dilpreet Singh
Ravinderpal Singh
S Zafar (c)
Dillon Heyliger
J Gordon
Junaid Siddiqui
Kaleem Sana
Rishiv Joshi
Nikhil Dutta
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