Canada congratulates Bangladesh

The Canadian Cricket Association wishes to congratulate President Saber Chowdhury, the Bangladesh Cricket Association, and the 130 million people of Bangladesh on their achievement of Test Match status. We wish them every success in the future . As a former Associate which has hosted an ICC International Event (as will Kenya later this year), Canada looks forward to joining them at least in the achievement of ODI status in the near future.

Canada of course will host the 2001 ICC Trophy competition in Ontario. This is the largest cricket tournament in the world with 24 countries scheduled to compete. This will probably be the last ICC Trophy Event of this size and format.

Participating nations have again been requested to also play some warm-up pre-tournament games in the other major provincial cricketing centres. A final decision is needed by September 15, 2000.

We also anticipate the continued on-field cricket support and assistance of Kenya and Bangladesh, as Canadian cricket aspires to move forward internationally. Congratulations again Bangladesh and we wish Kenya outstanding success in their staging of the ICC Knockout later this year.