A DARK DAY FOR CRICKET
March 3rd, 2009 by mqureshi
Pakistan’s ability to host the 2011 world cup is now in question.
That after a bus carrying the Sri Lankan team was attacked in broad daylight by gunmen, leaving 5 police officers, 1 bus driver and 2 civilians dead and has left as many as 8 players injured. The attacked occurred mid morning today as the […]
THE FINALS ARE SET
October 13th, 2008 by mqureshi
Day 3 of competition is over and the finals are set. And just like everyone expected its Sri Lanka and Pakistan fighting for the title.
In Game 1 our fearless Canadian squad put forth a valiant effort, but alas proved no match for the high power Sri Lankans. Ultimately the team in blue disposed of our […]
DAY 2 RESULTS
October 13th, 2008 by mqureshi
Day 2 of the tournament promised to be the most exciting, and it didn’t disappoint.
Canada played its most winnable game as they took on Zimbabwe. Boy what a match this turned out to be. Canada batted first and put up a respectable 153 for 7 score. A more than decent score in T20. Zimbabwe came […]
DAY 1 RESULTS
October 11th, 2008 by mqureshi
Day 1 of the tournament provided more excitement and drama than most expected.
In the first match Sri Lanka should have disposed of Zimbabwe with relative ease. But the African nation put up quite a fight and almost pulled off a major upset. But in the end Sri Lanka walked away with a vactory.
Sri Lanka 107 […]
SUPPORT THE RED AND WHITE
October 10th, 2008 by mqureshi
Now that the tournament is a go I wanted to talk about something that I hope to see.
Toronto has hosted numerous world class sporting events. The under 20 FIFA World Cup. The 1994 World Basketblall championships. Numerous FIFA friendlies and world cup qualifiers and so on. At these events there is a common trend that I’m […]
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
October 10th, 2008 by mqureshi
Today the long awaited Al Barakah T20 Canada 2008 tournament begins in King City.Sorry about the delay in posting this information but the details were only finalized recently.
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Canada are the 4 teams taking part in the four day tournament.
The format of the tournament is that all teams will play each […]
POSTPONED, NOW I RANT
August 15th, 2008 by mqureshi
If you read the last post, you’ll know that there was supposed to be a major cricket tournament here this weekend. I say supposed to be because its been postponed until the fall.
Let me tell you, finding out the tournament has been put off for a while was not easy. This is where I am going […]
CANADA TO HOST WORLD CLASS T20 TOURNAMENT
July 22nd, 2008 by mqureshi
Not since the Sahara Cup of the late 90’s has Canada hosted any sort of major international cricket matches. Thats all about to change, BIG TIME. It was recently announced that a major 4 team 20/20 tournament will be played from August 14th - 17th between Pakistan, Bangladesh, The West Indies and our own Canadian squad. […]
CRICKET WORLDWIDE
June 11th, 2008 by mqureshi
For most of June and some of July I will be going around Europe on my dream vacation. Im visiting 9 cities in 5 countries in 26 days. I´m donig it the old fashioned way by backpacking and staying hostels. So far I have been to Lisbon Portugal, Madrid Spain and now I write this […]
THE T20 REVOLUTION
May 14th, 2008 by mqureshi
Alright, a furious debate started in the comments section of the “Rawal Pindi Express gets Derailed”. So I thought I’d lay it out here and let you guys go at it. The question is simple: What do you think of T20 cricket? We have had people weigh in on both sides and the debate has been […]
