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Born into a family of cricket tragics in Canada and Tri-lingual across English, French and Spanish, Nick has broad experience providing descriptive and entertaining match coverage for multiple events across three continents involving emerging cricket teams. Nick’s personal blog is helicentcric.blogspot.com and tweets as @HeliocentCric, where he tirelessly proselytises the emerging game.
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Ambitious Canadians fly South for the winter

While the senior Canada teams (both men's and women's) have experienced a decade-long drought of global tournament appearances, the youth side has been a regular...

Netherlands qualify as pace attack blows away UAE

First semi-final playoff: UAE 80/9 (Raza 22; Glover 4/12, van Meekeran 2/13, van der Gugten 2/10) lost to Netherlands 81/2 off 15.1 overs (B. Cooper...

Improved Nigeria still no match for embattled UAE

Group B: Nigeria 111/3 (Adedeji 51*, Onwuzulike 46*; Siddique & Raza 1/15) lost to UAE 112/5 off 12.3 overs (Farid 55; S. Okpe 2/22) by...

A Sunday Kind of Love for Canada as Jersey Boys outmatched

Group B: Canada 176/5 off 20.0 overs (Kumar 83, Dhaliwal 36; Perchard 2/21) defeated Jersey 123 off 17.0 overs (Jenner 56; Gordon 3/14, Heyliger 3/20) A...

Out of the wilderness? Canada T20 World Cup Qualifiers preview

A power-packed batting lineup and an experienced team of spin bowlers provide Canada’s best chance at qualifying for an ICC global event in almost a decade.

OPINION: Zimbabwe suspension highlights double standards and warped priorities of ICC board

As the dust settles on the ICC’s decision to suspend Zimbabwe, the situation remains far from certain. Players’ careers have been thrown into limbo, while...

Of Upsets and Unpredictability: an in-depth analysis of ODI competitiveness

This is the comprehensive analysis of competitiveness in men's ODIs. A condensed version is available here. The Cricket World Cup’s league phase is finally entering the...

The World Cup “competitive games” fallacy

This article serves as a rebuttal of the argument justifying the ICC’s decision to reduce the CWC to 10 teams on the basis that including...

Japan qualify for first world cup, PNG forfeit after 10 players questioned for shoplifting

(UPDATED 0130, 0930 AEST) There was drama aplenty, a shroud of mystery and a touch of the ridiculous at Sano today, as Japan awoke to the...

USA brush aside Canada to progress through ICC Americas Women’s Qualifier

Less than a month after the USA men’s team claimed ODI status at WCL2 in Namibia, the women provided more good news for cricket in...

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