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Oct 10, 2015 Sports
By Sean Devers
Born in New Amsterdam Berbice on January 20, former Guyana First-Class fast bowler
Jeremy Gordon, who now resides in Canada, is the lone Guyanese in the ICC Americas One-Day team which will play in Zone ‘A’ of the WICB’s NAGICO Regional Super50 in Trinidad which starts on January 7 next year.
The 28-year-old who played for Bermine in Berbice first division cricket was selected on Wednesday as the only bowler from Canada to make the team which will travel to the West Indies. The team was selected after two-phase trial matches with the second phase of the ICC Americas cricket combine ending last month in Indianapolis.
Gordon, who played for Canada in the 2014 ICC World Cup qualifiers, made his First-class debut for Guyana against the Leewards in Albion in 2007 in his home County and played the last of his five First-Class games in King City in 2013 when Canada beat the Netherlands by eight wickets.
The former Guyana youth team pacer has six wickets from five One-Day International for Canada and 9 wickets from 10 List A games. The Berbician made his t20 debut in Barbados for Canada against Guyana in the 2012 Regional 50-over competition.
Gordon, who migrated to Toronto, Canada where he is employed as a technical Support Analyst, still harbors thoughts of returning to his homeland and regain his place in Guyana’s team.
Gordon returned last year and bowled with pace in a few practice sessions but the team was already selected.
The ICC Americas team will get an opportunity for the best performing players to then trial for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).
Opener Steven Taylor is one of nine US players in the 15-man squad. Taylor played this year for the Barbados Tridents in the CPL but Canada’s lone CPL-contracted player, Nikhil Dutta, who played for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, was left out of the squad with the off-spinner’s place going USA captain Muhammad Ghous.
Ali Khan, from Dayton, Ohio, is the lone player in the squad who is yet to play for his respective national team but was consistently impressive throughout both phases of the trial for his pace and ability to bowl yorkers. He was also one of six players – along with Allen, Ahmed, Gordon, Alex Amsterdam, and Srimantha Wijeratne – who progressed out of phase one of the trial to beat numerous competitors who were fast-tracked directly into phase two.
The final squad was selected by a panel headed by former West Indies pacer and WICB selector Courtney Walsh, Mike Young and Venkatapathy Raju, who were all brought in by the ICC Americas office as independent talent evaluators present during both phases of the trial, as well as multiple local coaches including Ontario Cricket Academy coach Derek Perera and current USA U-19 coach Thiru Kumaran.
The team is scheduled to arrive in Trinidad on January 4 and will play alongside hosts Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Combined Campuses and Colleges, with each team playing each other twice before the semi-finals begin on January 21.
ICC Americas squad: Timroy Allen, Danial Ahmed, Alex Amsterdam, Navneet Dhaliwal, Akeem Dodson (wk), Muhammad Ghous, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Jeremy Gordon, Ali Khan, Nitish Kumar, Timil Patel, Hammad Shahid, Hamza Tariq (wk), Steven Taylor, Srimantha Wijeratne
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