Guyanese Dilon Heyliger has retained his place in the Canada senior men’s squad, set to vie for supremacy in the upcoming World Cricket League Division 2 tournament to be held in Namibia from February 8-15.
The team will depart for South Africa on January 24-25 to prepare for the tournament.
However, there is no place for his Guyanese counterpart, Mark Montfort, who was part of the squad which played four matches against a University of West Indies Select XI last month in Barbados.
Canada will compete against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kenya, Namibia, Nepal and Oman, with the top two teams in the tournament advancing to the 10-team ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018, which will be played in Zimbabwe from March 4-25. Two teams from this competition will qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 to be staged in the United Kingdom.
Heyliger, a former Guyana T20 player who also represented his homeland at both the Under-15 and 19 levels, turned out for Brampton Masters in last season’s Toronto District Cricket Association (TDCA) Super 9 tournament.
An elated Heyliger told Chronicle Sport that his dream is to compete in the 2019 World Cup and he’s raring to go, once given the opportunity in Namibia.
Squad: NitishKumar (captain), Bhavindu Adhihetty, Navneet Dhaliwal, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Nicholas Kirton, Srimantha Wijeyeratne, Dhanuka Pathirana, Nikhil Dutta, Dilon Heyliger, Hamza Tariq, Cecil Pervez, Satsimranjit Dhindsa, Junaid Siddiqui and Saad Zafar. Head coach Ingleton Liburd, Assistant coach Henry Osinde, Asst coach/analyst Daulat Khan. The reserves, who will travel with the team, are Umar Ghani and Anmar Khalid.
