{"id":370153,"date":"2026-01-14T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:35:17","slug":"canada-announce-squad-for-their-t20-world-cup-campaign-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370153\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada announce squad for their T20 World Cup campaign | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada made it to this edition of the tournament, by featuring in and winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/qualifiers\/mens-t20-americas-final-2025\/matches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final<\/a>. The team played six games and won all of them, thus topping the table, and booking their ticket for the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>During the Americas Regional Qualifier, Shivam Sharma&#8217;s off-spin (11 wickets at 7.81) and Kaleem Sana&#8217;s left-arm pace (10 wickets at 7.5) proved to be quite effective, and the side would hope that the duo continue to wield their magic in India.<\/p>\n<p>On the batting end, the side has attacking batter Nicholas Kirton in their ranks, who can expect good support from fellow southpaw Yuvraj Samra, who has a strike-rate of 160.72.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s task will be cut out from the start as their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening group<\/a> features South Africa, New Zealand, Afghanistan and the UAE. They begin their campaign against South Africa in Ahmedabad on 9 February, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada made it to this edition of the tournament, by featuring in and winning the ICC Men&#8217;s T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,16326,67828,103095,67833,67814,6518,67832,103093,67815,67810,103098,101,103094,103096,67812,56,54,55,103097],"class_list":["post-370153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-icc-announcements","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","tag-today-cricket-match-news","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}