Canada announces final World Cup squad of 15

The Canadian Cricket Association's Senior Selection Committee of Ben Seebaran, John Lovelace, Michael Khan, Arvind Patel and Chair Karam Gopaulsingh have finalized selections for the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa. The Canadian Cricket Association formally extends invitations to the following list of players.

• BAGAI Ashish
• BILLCLIFF Ian
• CHUMNEY Desmond
• CODRINGTON Austin
• DAVISON John
• DEGROOT Nicholas V.Capt
• HARRIS Joseph Capt.
• IFILL Nicholas
• JOSEPH Davis
• MARAJ Ishwar
• PATEL Ashish
• SAMAD Abdool
• SAMAD Fazil
• SEEBARAN Barry
• THURAISINGAM Sanjayan

The team originally scheduled to leave for Namibia on January 21, 2002 and a training camp with Holland, Namibia, and Kenya will now leave at a date to be determined later on. The ICC suddenly found themselves short of retained High Performance funds for the camp and have informed us that the Namibia camp has been cancelled.

Alternative plans are underfoot to get the team together in South Africa, before the practice games start. High Performance consultant Bob Woolmer and Global Development Manager Andrew Eade are being consulted. Eade returns from the Development meetings in Pakistan this week. We expect that Canada and other countries will continue to receive HP assistance in 2003 and beyond as we press forward for ODI status and ultimately FM status.

Team Manager is Karam Gopaulsingh, Physio is Milt Bingham. Coaching and Umpiring positions will be finalized in short order.