The excitement is building with the start of Global Canada T20 2023 on the horizon. The third edition of the International Cricket Council (ICC) recognised tournament is slated to begin on Friday, July 21.
Organised by Cricket Canada, six teams are participating in the upcoming 20-over tournament following a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The six teams participating in Global T20 Canada 2023 are Brampton Wolves, Mississauga Panthers, Montreal Tigers, Surrey Jaguars, Toronto Nationals, and Vancouver Knights.
All teams comprise a squad of 16 players made up of talents from both full and associate nations.
Out of these 16 players, all teams must have six Canadian players - three from the national team - four players from associate nations, and six international players, including two marquee talents.
Previous editions of this tournament have seen participation from renowned names like Chris Gayle, Yuvraj Singh, and Lasith Malinga, while Harbhajan Singh, Andre Russell, Alex Hales, Shakib Al Hasan, and Shahid Afridi will be participating in Global T20 Canada 2023.
For the upcoming season of Global T20 Canada, all six teams built their squads through a player draft with a purse limit of US dollars 579,500 and a squad limit of 16 players, taking into account further constraints for the number of marquee players.
With that in mind, let’s have a look at the star-studded Global Canada T20 2023 squads.
Global Canada T20 2023 squads
Brampton Wolves: Harbhajan Singh, Colin De Grandhomme, Tim Southee, Mark Sinclair Chapman, Usama Mir, Hussain Talat, Usman Khan, Logan Van Beek, Jan Nicolaas Frylinck, Max O Dowd, Jeremy Gordon, Aaron Johnson, Rizwan Cheema, Shahid Ahmadzai, Rishiv Joshi, Gurpal Singh Sandhu
Coach: Shane Bond
Montreal Tigers: Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Chris Lynn, Sherfane Rutherford, Carlos Brathwaite, Muhammad Abbas Afridi, Zahir Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Akif Raja, Aayan Khan, Dipendra Airee, Kaleem Sana, Srimantha Wijeratne, Matthew Spoors, Bhupendra Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Anoop Chima
Coach: Dav Whatmore
Mississauga Panthers: Shoaib Malik, Chris Gayle, Azam Khan, James Neesham, Cameron Scott Delport, Shahnawaz Dahani, Zahoor Khan, Tom Cooper, Cecil Pervez, Jaskarandeep Singh Buttar, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nikhil Dutta, Shreyas Movva, Praveen Kumar, Mihir Patel, Ethan Gibson
Coach: Lance Klusener
Surrey Jaguars: Alex Hales, Iftikhar Ahmed, Jason Behrendorff, Litton Kumar Das, Karim Janat, Mohammad Haris, Sheel Patel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Jatinder Singh, Ayaan Khan, Bernard Scholtz, Pargat Singh, Dilon Heyliger, Ammar Khalid, Sunny Matharu, Kairav Sharma
Coach: Lalchand Rajput
Toronto Nationals: Colin Munro, Shahid Afridi, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Zaman Khan, Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Hamza Tariq, Gerhard Erasmus, JJ Smit, Saad Bin Zafar, Farhan Malik, Nicholas Kirton, Armaan Kapoor, Sarmad Anwar, Rommel Shahzad, Udhaya Bhagwan
Coach: Aaqib Javed
Vancouver Knights: Mohammad Rizwan, Rassie van der Dussen, Naveen-ul-Haq, Reeza Hendricks, Corbin Bosch, Najibullah Zadran, Junaid Siddiqui, Vriitya Aravind, Karthik Meiyappan, Ruben Trumpelmann, Ravinderpal Singh, Harsh Thaker, Rayyan Pathan, Muhammad Kamal, Nawab Singh, Kanwar Tathgur
Coach: Donovan Miller
Photo credit: Alamy
