Ottawa Crowns 2018 Cricket Champions Across 3 Divisions

10/20/2018

Besides turkey and pumpkin pie, The Canadian Thanksgiving weekend also saw the official close of the 2018 cricket season in Canada’s Capital.  After a T20 regular season that saw 11 teams put up thousands of runs, and a handful of centuries, it came down to one weekend to determine a champion. With three matches on October 6 to determine the finalists, and a winner-takes-all final the following day to determine the T20 champion, it was a big weekend of 20 over cricket.Defence Cricket[...] Read more

OVCC President's Message for the 2016 Cricket Season

04/26/2016

  Dear OVCC Members,Welcome to the 2016 OVCC cricket season.  This season promises to be an exciting one!For the new players who are joining the league, we welcome you into our cricket family and wish you the best of success on and off the field.  For those of you who are returning, I thank you for your commitment to and support for our wonderful game and look forward to catching up with each of you over the season.  I extend a warm welcome to Kingston CC who have joined [...] Read more

Kamal Setia and Rahul Raikwar passed LEVEL 3 UMPIRING EXAM

04/19/2016

Congratulations Kamal Setia and Rahul Raikwar, for passing their LEVEL 3 UMPIRING EXAM WITH FLYING COLOURS. It is quite an achievement we all in OVCC can be very proud off. This exam is hard and is in THREE parts, written, pass mark 70%, practical and ora,l passing mark combined for this is 80%. Now they are officially certified by the WEST INDIAN BOARD who are responsible for the Americas. Well done Kamal and Rahul, now you join only a hand full of OVCC umpires in this elite group. Who knows, [...] Read more

LEAGUE COMMITTEES FOR YEAR 2016 & 2017

04/19/2016

Web Committee Chairman: Mazhar Choudhury, Members: Dishant Langayan, John Lexmond. Constitution Committee Chairman: Geoff Batstone, Members: President of each Club. Nomination Committee  Chairman: Geoff Batstone, Members: Secretary of each Club.  Trophies Committee Chair: Darlene Batstone, Members: John Lexmond, Dennis Fernandez, Tanmay Kansara.  Campaign Committee Chair: Dheeraj Kumar, Members: Geoff Batstone, Harpreet Nanda, a representative of each Club Fix[...] Read more

THE HISTORY OF CRICKET IN OTTAWA

02/25/2016

Cricket Ottawa – The Early Years (1840-1960) In 1840, some thirteen years after the first recorded mention of cricket in Canada , the Carleton Cricket Club was established in Ottawa , then named Bytown. This club was dissolved in 1845 and nothing further was heard of the game until 1849 when the Bytown Cricket Club was established. Among the players at that period were Mr. G.P. Baker, postmaster and often referred to as “the father of Ottawa cricket “, and Mr. F. Clemow, [...] Read more