CIMA Toronto Mayor's X1 returned home
from a very successful tour of UK and attracted extensive media
coverage. The tour provided us a great oportunity to highlight CIMA's
community profile on an international level. CIMA and the City of
Toronto representatives were given a warm welcome in UK by prominent
British institutions, including the Mayor and the Council of Kingston
upon Thames, Surrey, Britain's second most senior Police officer,
Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Paul Stephenson and
the CEO of MCC Keith Bradshaw.
CIMA's innovative youth initiatlve titled "Cricket Across
The Pond" was facilitated by the City of Toronto through
logistics and technical support, the tour was financially supported
by CIMA Canada through the funds raised from the fourth annual
Celebration of Cricket - CIMA Mayor's Trophy.
Please follow the links for press coverage..
Matches:
What was meant to be a friendly encounter between the hosting
borough of Kingston and the youngsters from Toronto- turned out
to be a keenly contested match with fierce hitting from both sides.
The Kingston team elected to bat and were off to a flying start,
as the young Torontonians struggled in the field after 5 straight
days of cricket. The early order got away to a flying start, until
skipper Darius D'Souza and Lakshan Liyanage curbed the scoring
and struck with wickets.
With the Deputy Mayor of Kingston in presence, the CIMA XI set
off to chase the target in grand style. Darius D'Souza and Lakshan
Liyanage hit boundary after boundary in a hitting frenzy. With
support from Harsh Desai, Lakshan Liyanage moved onto his third
half century of the tour with 3 sixes and 5 fours- to bring home
victory in the final match.
Kingston Deputy Mayors XI 108/7 in 15 overs (Kala 42; A. Jemm
17, Lakshan Liyanage 2-10, Darius D'Souza 2-26)
CIMA XI 111/2 in 13 overs (Lakshan Liyanage 52*, Darius D'Souza
38, Harsh Desai 17)
The penultimate match of the tour was the most anticipated by
both the CIMA Toronto Mayors XI and the UK organizers. The CIMA
XI won the toss and elected to bat at their adopted home pitch
at Chessington CC. The early order set a steady scoring rate to
take the total to 183/6 in the allotted 40 overs. Good contributions
from Harsh Desai and Owais Khurshid, helped to partner Lakshan
Liyanage as he built a watchful innings, completing his fifty
off the last ball of the innings.
The Surrey Cricket Board U-18's lost wickets at regular intervals,
but did look threatening at one stage when Richard Cook came in
and looked to move the scoring rate with boundaries. Skipper Darius
D'Souza and Salman Nazar continued their fine form with the ball,
and helped to bring home a convincing victory.
Surrey Cricket was on hand to make a presentation to all the
lads, and were full of praise for the victorious team.
CIMA Mayor's X1 183 - 7 wkts in 40 overs
Lakshan Liyanage 50 Not Out
Owais Shah 35
Harsh Desai 22
Lahiru Gallage 18
I. Richard 8-0-24-2
Surrey Cricket Academy X1
118 All Out - 39 Overs
Richard Cook 31
M. Marks 22
Darious D'Souza 7-2-20-2
Salman Nazzar 6-1-17-2
Lakshan Liyanage 8-1-18-1
Enjoying three consecutive wins after the rained out first game
of the tour, the CIMA Mayor's team played a 40 over game against
London's Metropolitan Cricket team at the picturesque police cricket
grounds in East Molesey, Surrey.(which has also been used for
Surrey county matches),
Darius D'Souza won the toss and elected to bat on a batsman's
paradise. Openers Rajiv Sivanesan and Owais Shah put on a 144
run partnership in 23 overs to give CIMA team a solid start against
the formidable Police cricket team. Rajiv Sivanesan smashed his
way to 95- sadly run out attempting a second run. Both batsmen
laid the platform, for what looked to be a total of around 300,
when some strong bowling by the Police helped to restrict the
final total to 214 in 40 overs.
After strong starting spells by the consistent Lahiru Gallage
and Darius D'Souza, the Police middle order settled in and looked
to be in a comfortable position to lead their team home. However
smart bowling changes and field settings by skipper D'Souza, and
an excellent spell from Rajiv Sivanesan (4-34) and Salman Nazar
helped to bring home victory for the CIMA XI and maintain its
unbeaten record on the tour of UK.
CIMA Mayor's X1;
214 - 9 in 40 Overs.
Rajiv Sivanesan 95
Owais Shah 53
Varun Shah 18
Lakshan Liyanage 14
J.P. Carmier 6-0-27-4
E. Montague 8-1-31-2
Metropolitan Police - London
134 All Out in 30 Overs
D. Corey 37
C. Cox 26
C. Butler 20
Rajiv Sivanesn 8-0-34-4
Salman Nazzar 8-1-30-3
Darious D'Souza 6-0-25-2
Lakshan Liyanage 2-0-13-1
Lahiru Gallage 5-3-6-0
The CIMA Toronto Mayor's XI pulled off their third win in a row,
playing at the Old Ruts ground. Old Ruts are also in the Surrey
Championship and are at the top of their division tables. Having
won the toss skipper Darius D'Souza decided to bat on a somewhat
harder pitch. The consistent opening pair of the skipper and Lakshan
Liyanage, put on the first 100 run partnership of the tour. Cruising
to 103 in the 20th over, D'Souza was stumped for 47 off the bowling
of the off-spinning overseas player Sandeep Ganguly (from Bengal,
India). Liyanage batted on to complete his first half century
of the tour, moving on to 51 before being caught. The two wickets
brought on a sudden collapse as the youngsters from Toronto struggled
with the spinners. The CIMA XI finished with 165 in their allotted
overs.
Another fine display of bowling from Lahiru Gallage, had the
Old Ruts trembling as he demolished their early order. Tight spells
by left arm pacer Michael Walton, Harsh Desai and the D'Souza
helped to contain the run rate. However the Old Ruts gave a good
fight putting on a 70 run partnership for the 9th wicket, bring
the game to a close finish.
CIMA XI 166/9 in 40 overs (Lakshan Liyanage 51, Darius D'Souza
47)
Old Ruts 150/10 in 40 overs (Foster 47; Lahiru Gallage 3-13,
Darius D'Souza 2-26)
On a soft green pitch and overcast conditions, the skipper DariusD'Souza
continued his fine form with winning tosses, and put the Chessy
team in to bat. The opening duo of Michael Walton and Lahiru Gallage
had the home side in all sorts of trouble as they reeled to 35
runs for 8 wickets. Both youngsters seemed to hav learned how
to bowl in the English conditions producing late swing and bowling
fuller lengths- to produce optimum results. However a determined
knock of 50* by their skipper Hoosain Shaboodian helped Chessy
to recover to 121 in their 40 overs.
Skipper D'Souza and vice captain Liyanage worked their way through
a tight opening spell by the Chessy side, and built an 80 run
partnership. This strong start guaranteed victory for the young
Toronto side.
Chessington CC 121/8 in 40 overs (H.Shaboodian 50*; Lahiru Gallage
3-13, Michael Walton 2-21)
CIMA XI 124/2 in 24.4 overs (Darius D'Souza 52, Lakshan Liyanage
30)
Beddington CC (another Surrey Championship league team) fielded
a mixed age XI, not knowing the standard of the Toronto team.
CIMA XI won the toss and elected to bat on a batting friendly
pitch. The CIMA team took the attack to the inexperienced bowling
line up of Beddington CC, and finished with a score of 165 for
the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. Harsh Desai (Ontario Cricket
Academy/Cavaliers) was retired after registering a breezy half
century. Darius D'Souza, Lahiru Gallage and Rajiv Sivanesan all
contributed with useful scores.
After a strong start from the Beddington early order, which included
a couple of first team players, the spinners Lakshan Liyanage
and Salman Nazar took top honours with the ball.
CIMA XI 165/2 in 20 overs (Harsh Desai 50* ret'd, Darius D'Souza
36, Rajiv sivanesan 33*, Lahiru Gallage 28*)
Beddington CC 101/10 in 17 overs (G. Lester 37; Salman Nazar
4-17, Lakshan Liyanage 3-21)
Chessington CC (Surrey Championship senior league team), included
quite a few first team players after seeing the standard of the
young CIMA Toronto Mayors XI at training. CIMA won the toss and
put Chessington into bat. After an excellent display of swing
bowling from Lahiru Gallage (Ontario Cricket Academy), rain came.
Returning to the field with a wet outfield the bowlers struggled
for a few overs before Ontario Cricket Academy players Darius
D'Souza and Lakshan Liyanage tore apart the Chessington middle
order. Chessington finished with a score of 117 in their alloted
20 overs.
The CIMA XI looked well on their way to getting the total with
Lakshan Liyanage and Darius D'Souza establishing an excellent
opening partnership, when the umpires decided that after 9 overs,
the match should be called off due to bad light.
Chessington 117/9 in 20 overs (Luke Carter 33; Darius D'Souza
3-25, Lakshan Liyanage 3-19)
CIMA XI 59/1 in 9 overs (Darius D'Souza 20, Lakshan Liyanage
21*)
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