Canada bring back Dassanayake as coach, reveals final T20 World Cup 2024 squad
Canada’s head coach, Pubudu Dassanayake, will stay on for the T20 World Cup despite being told he was getting fired after their recent warm-up matches as the board reveals the final squad for the T20 World Cup 2024.
There was a change of plans for Canada’s head coach, Pubudu Dassanayake, leading up to the T20 World Cup. Initially, on Wednesday, he was informed by Assistant Manager Gurdeep Klair that his role wouldn’t continue after their recent warm-up matches in St. Kitts. However, following a board meeting later that day, the decision was reversed.
Dassanayake will now remain head coach for the duration of Canada’s T20 World Cup campaign.
The head coach says that hopefully they can put all this behind them and focus on the cricket of the team.
He applauded the team saying that they have worked really hard to get to this stage and he’s looking forward to the first match of the tournament.
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The Canadian cricket team will play the opener of the tournament against the hosts USA on June 1st.
Apart from the head coach’s revelation, the final squad noticeably had some significant changes including the inclusion of the previously excluded spinner Nikhil Dutta. Rishiv Joshi has also been called back to the final squad.
Batter Kanwarpal Tathgur and Harsh Thaker were not been included in the final cut and Thaker was not happy about it.
He took to social media and slammed the decision despite him not being completely fit to play in the all-important T20 World Cup.
Canada is grouped with India, Pakistan, and Ireland, and the first-timer hosts the USA in Group A.
Before they face the USA, Canada will play two warm-up games scheduled on May 27 and May 31 against Nepal and Netherlands respectively.
Canada T20 World Cup 2024 squad :
Saad bin Zafar (c), Aaron Johnson, Ravinderpal Singh, Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Shreyas Movva, Nikhil Dutta, Pargat Singh, Rayyankhan Pathan, Dilpreet Bajwa, Dilon Heyliger, Junaid Siddiqui, Jeremy Gordon, Kaleem Sana, Rishiv Joshi
