Canada cricketers celebrate T20 World Cup qualification with win over Bermuda

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 7:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Teenage batsman Yuvraj Samra scored 45 runs Sunday arsenic Canada celebrated qualification for adjacent year's ICC Men's T20 World Cup with a six-wicket triumph implicit Bermuda successful the last crippled of the four-country Americas Qualifier.

Canada's seven-wicket triumph implicit the Bahamas connected Saturday, coupled with Bermuda's nine-wicket nonaccomplishment to the Cayman Islands, sealed the Canadian qualification connected the penultimate time of the four-team qualifier.

Sunday's win, which improved Canada's tourney grounds to 6-0-0, was the icing connected the qualifying cake.

Bermuda won the flip and elected to bat astatine the Maple Leaf Cricket Ground wherever it was 32 C feeling similar a steamy 39 for the mid-afternoon start. After a storming inning of 70 runs by No. 3 batsman Delray Rawlins, Bermuda's batting bid crumbled.

Bermuda finished astatine 131 each retired midway done the 19th over. That acceptable Canada a triumph people of 132 from its 20 overs.

Canada enactment up its half-century successful the 5th implicit with Samra accounting for 40 of the runs. But the 18-year-old was bowled by Dominic Sabir successful the sixth implicit with Canada astatine 63 for one. Samra finished with 3 sixes and 5 fours successful his 23-ball knock.

The Canadians were 85 for 3 aft 10 overs. Harsh Thaker (33 runs) and skipper Nicholas Kirton (17 runs) steered Canada implicit the triumph enactment astatine 132 for 4 wickets successful the 16th over.

Canada is the 13th state to suffice for the 20-team T20 World Cup successful February-March 2026. The different qualified sides are. Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, South Africa, the U.S., West Indies, Ireland, New Zealand and Pakistan positive co-hosts India and Sri Lanka.

Seven much teams — 2 from the Europe Qualifier (to beryllium played July 5-11), 2 from Africa Qualifier (Sept. 19 to Oct. 4) and 3 from the Asia-Pacific Qualifier (Oct. 1-17) — volition publication their summons done determination qualifiers.

Canada made its T20 World Cup debut past year, failing to beforehand retired of the radical signifier aft beating No. 11 Ireland and losing to No. 8 Pakistan and co-host United States, ranked 17th. A lucifer against No. 1 India was abandoned owed to inclement weather.

Canada defeated Bermuda by 110 runs successful its June 15 opening lucifer astatine the Americas Qualifier.

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Bermuda was 100 for 2 aft 10 overs Sunday, earlier losing the adjacent 8 wickets for conscionable 31 runs.

Rawlins' good innings ended erstwhile helium was caught astatine the bound by Shivam Sharma disconnected Saad Bin Zafar's past transportation of the 11th implicit with Bermuda astatine 102 for three.

Kaleem Sana and Zafar each took 3 wickets.

Rawlins punished Jaskaran Buttar successful the 4th over, with 10 runs of his archetypal 2 deliveries of a 14-run over. And Rawlins attacked the rotation of Thaker the adjacent over, reaching his half-century with a four-six-four disconnected the archetypal 3 balls.

Canada had a flimsy accidental to region Rawlins connected 64 successful the eighth implicit but a diving Singh was incapable to get to a moonshot erstwhile it came down. Rawlins and Alex Dore enactment connected an 83-run concern earlier Dore, connected six, was caught by Zafar disconnected Buttar's past transportation of the eighth over.

The 27-year-old Rawlins, who made his debut for Bermuda astatine 15 and went connected to marque 138 appearances for Sussex successful England, slammed six sixes and 4 fours successful his 42-ball knock. Onias Bascome added 20 runs.

Canada, the Bahamas, Bermuda and Cayman Islands were competing successful an eight-day treble round-robin format that sent the tourney victor beforehand to the T20 World Cup.

Canada is ranked 19th successful T20 play by the International Cricket Council, compared to No. 27 for Bermuda, No. 41 for the Cayman Islands and No. 56 for the Bahamas.

The Cayman Islands and Bahamas were precocious promoted from the Subregional Qualifier.