June 2010

The word Ghaznavi is derived (right or wrong) from the Persian word ‘Ghazi’ which means Winners - all teams in our club tries to WIN games and people's hearts. 

Not believing in segregation, Ghaznavi current roster of almost 60 active cricketers is from the India, Pakistan and West Indies speaking English, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Konkani, and Sindhi (8). We have four teams playing in the first, second, third and fourth divisions of the most elite Canadian league "Toronto District Cricket Association (TDCA)”. TDCA is also the oldest & largest cricket league in North America.

2001-Present:

By the grace of Almighty, we created history by winning the league championship of 3^rd and 2^nd division in our first two years of existence ('01 & '02) beating young and spirited teams of West Indian and Thorncliffe Boys, respectively.  Have been playing in 1^st division since '03.

We opened a 3^rd  division team in 2003. Our 3^rd  division team in TDCA also reached the playoffs in 2006 and lost by 21 runs a low scoring first round game. We continue to operate a 3^rd division team.

We started a team in a newly created 4^th  division in 2008 and were the champions of the regular season, unfortunately losing a close semi final to eventual champions (Spartan Superstars) by 20 odd runs. In 2009, our 4^th division again were regular season champions and this time lost the finals to a young team of Toronto Cheetahs

In TDCA, we have won 17 individual league-awards (4 batting and 13 bowling) in the 9 years we have been playing in TDCA (2001-2009).

1994-2001:

The Ghazis played (as Royals) in all divisions of Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) - the 2nd biggest league in Canada (at that time). In 7 years, our two Royal teams lost four finals (three 20-overs and one 50-overs) and missed making the playoffs once ('01). 

However, in SCA too, we won the championship in our very first year ('94) overwhelming a very talented Scarborough Indians team. In SCA we won at least 2 individual awards every year we played there (18 individual awards in 7 years).    

During the season this site is updated almost daily. During off-season (our winter-hiatus, Oct1-Jan31) we try to update twice a month .  Current statistics and detailed scorecards of the TDCA years (01-08) can be found through TDCA web page (www.cricketstar.net/tdca).

When updating any other links, we announce through our Cover Page. Our "Message Board" is updated as often as you (our most valued visitor) want it to (ALL non-derogatory, cricket related and even anonymous messages are published)......

Best wishes and prayers for all gentlemen cricketers and hats off to all the championship and individual award winners of the past. For everyone else there is always next year !!!

Playing cricket TOGETHER since Mar'93, NOT OUT in the Toronto leagues (May '94). on the web since Oct '01 - that's the “Ghazis”...