LONDON: Ashish Bagai will lead a young 16-member Canadian squad to the 2011 ICC World Cup, and Rizwan Cheema will be his vice. Apart from the Bagai, seamer Henry Osinde and allrounder John Davison are the two other players in the side with prior World Cup experience.
The team features seven players who have come through Canada’s youth programmes, including six who have represented the country at the under-19 level – Zubin Surkari, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel, Ruvindu Gunaskera, Parth Desai, and Hamza Tariq.
The Jamaica-born Tyson Gordon has been picked, though he still awaits confirmation of his Canadian citizenship. Cricket Canada expects this to be completed in the coming days but have named a standby in case Gordon cannot make the cut, thus taking the squad’s strength to 16.
The team leaves for a pre-tournament training camp in Dubai on January 26 and will head to Bangladesh on February 8 for warm-up matches against Bangladesh and England, before opening their tournament on February 20 against Sri Lanka.
Squad: Ashish Bagai (capt & wk), Rizwan Cheema (vice-capt), Harvir Baidwan, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel, Tyson Gordon, Henry Osinde, John Davison, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Parth Desai, Karl Whatham, Khurram Chohan, Jimmy Hansra, Zubin Surkari, Balaji Rao and Hamza Tariq.
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