JPAA Canada wishes our Members, Old Boys and the Joe-Pete Family at large – a Happy New Year, keep well and good health, prosperity and much happiness.

2014 was an eventful year for us. We celebrated our 30th anniversary in Canada. It is a cause for celebration as 30 years as a joint organization is definitely something to be proud of in this day and age. While we faced a few challenges, they were easily overcome and all our events were well patronised. What more can we say?

JPAA Canada looks forward to a rewarding year ahead and would like to be in touch with you throughout next year. Please visit our site regularly and send us news for posting.

PETERITE CRICKET FOUNDATION (PCF)

Following are the PCF Officials elected at the 7th AGM for year 2014/15:

PATRON: Rev.Fr.Rector Trevor Martin

PRESIDENT: Mr.Chaminda Perera

Immdt.Past Presidnet: Mr.Roshan Anthony

Vice Presidents: Mr.Malinda Warnapura & Mr.Brijesh Jeganathan

Hony.General Secretary: Mr.Ayantha Panditharatne

Hony.General Treasure: Mr.Dion Savarimuttu

Assistant Secretary: Mr.Jason Buultjens

Assistant Treasure: Mr.Evans Ranasinghe

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
 1) Mr.Micheal Ellias
 2) Mr.Chanaka Gunawardena
 3) Mr.Kumantha Ranasinghe
 4) Mr.Asanga Perera
 5) Mr.Chrishantha Peries
 6) Mr.Shehan Fernando
 7) Mr.Shenal Fernando
 8) Mr.Sherby Vanheer
 9) Mr.Hans Fernando
 10) Mr.Dilanka Pieris

 Auditors: Gomes & Company- Chartered Accountants

NEWS RELEASE BY THE JOSEPHIAN-PETERITE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION – CANADA (JPAA CANADA)

The National selectors have named the Canada squad for the ICC WCL Division 2, Namibia from January 17th to 24th, 2015. Prior to the tournament the team will travel to Zimbabwe from January 3rd to 12th where they will play four matches against Zimbabwe 'A' team. 

The 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division 2 is a cricket divisional tournament organised by the International Cricket Council. It forms part of the ICC World Cricket League and a qualification pathway for the ICC World Cup 2019.

Three Sri Lankans are named in the pool of 18 – 14 players + 4 reserves. Ruvindu Gunasekera has been a regular opening bat for Canada in the last few years and a reliable spinner. Star batsman Srimantha Wijeyeratne will don his Canadian "Cap" and will strengthen the team. Trevins Bastiampillai has also been picked as a "reserve", and is in the pool of players.

Of particular interest to the Joe-Pete fraternity is the fact that Ruvindu Gunasekera and Srimantha Wijeyeratne are Old Peterites while Trevin Bastiampillai is an Old Josephian.

From the Province of Ontario they play in the Toronto and District Cricket Association Premier League, all three are top performers in the league and also play for their respective school teams in the Canada Series of the "Battle of the Saints" (Josephian-Peterite) which has now reached its 30th year. JPAA Canada was formed in 1984. The Canada squad is as follows:

1. Jimmy Hansra – Captain – BC
2. Rizwan Cheema – ON
3. Ruvindu Gunasekera – ON
4. Nitesh Kumar – ON
5. Srimantha Wijeyeratne – ON
6. Umer Nawaz – BC
7. Cecil Pervez – ON
8. Hamza Tariq – AB
9. Navneet Dhaliwal – ON
10. Varun Sehdev – ON
11. Satsimranjit Dhindsa – ON
12. Parth Desai – ON
13. Nikhil Dutta – ON
14. Durand Soraine – ON

Reserves –

1. Trevin Bastiampillai – ON

2. Awais Ahmed – BC

3. Usman Limbada – ON

4. Farhan Malik.- AB

Coach – Mukesh Narula

Manager – Naresh Jain

By M. Shamil Amit – Courtesy: Daily Mirror

St Peter’s crushed Nalanda by an innings and three runs in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Campbell Place yesterday. St Peter’s having dominated proceedings on the opening day kept up their momentum on day two too.

The Peterites having bundled out the home team for a low score of 112 ended day one in a strong position of 177 for 2 and continuing on their overnight score on day two they went on to make a formidable score of 208 for 4 with overnight batsman Hashan Wanasekera who was unbeaten on 48 going on to make a top score of 67.

Nalanda batting the second time with a deficit of 96 runs was unable to make any headway as they fared no better than in their first innings and succumbed to a score of just 93.

Nalanda 112 (Asel Kulatunga 22, Isuru Samarasinghe 21: Ayantha de Silva 16, Malinga Amarasinghe 15: Randel Seneviratne 4 for 25, Ashanth Malka 3 for 18) and 93 (Kavindu Bandara 25: Dasun Seneviratne 15: Ashanth Malka 3 for 40, Taneesha Weerakoon 2 for 16, Chandula Jayamanne 2 for 19)

St Peter’s (177/2 overnight) 208 for 4 declared (Hashan Wanasekera 67, Dineth Thimodya 59, Didulana Medis 59)