This is a list of Canadian first-class cricketers. First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. Generally, matches are eleven players a side but there have been exceptions. Today all matches must be scheduled to have at least three days' duration; historically, matches were played to a finish with no pre-defined timespan. This list is not limited to those who have played first-class cricket for Canada and may include Canadian players who played their first-class cricket elsewhere. The list is in alphabetical order.
Name Career Span Matches Teams Derek Abraham 1973–1976 4 Windward Islands Crosbie Baber 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Ashish Bagai 2004–2006 7 Canada P. H. Barnes 1951 1 Canada Geoff Barnett 2004–2006 17 Canada, Central Districts Timothy Bevington 1900–1913 14 AJ Webbe's XI, Combined Canada/USA XI, MCC, Middlesex County Cricket Club, PF Warner's XI Latchman Bhansingh 1985–1989 2 Berbice Ian Billcliff 1991–2006 45 Auckland, Canada, Otago, Wellington Lawrence Black 1903–1919 4 Hampshire Kenneth Branker 1951–1956 2 Barbados Tom Brierley 1931–1954 232 Canada, Glamorgan, Lancashire Garnet Brisbane 1959–1962 4 Combined Islands, Windward Islands Edmund Burn 1954 2 Canada Jimmy Cameron 1946–1959 21 Canada, Jamaica, West Indies David Chapman 1876–1877 2 Cambridge University Brian Christen 1951–1954 5 Canada Desmond Chumney 2004–2006 3 Canada Austin Codrington 2004 3 Canada George Codrington 2005 2 Canada Thomas Dale 1883 1 USA Pubudu Dassanayake 1990–2006 108 Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Canada, Central Province, Colts Cricket Club, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Board President's XI, Sri Lanka Board Under-23s XI, Sri Lanka Board XI, Sri Lanka Under-24s John Davison 1995–2006 50 Canada, South Australia, Victoria Nicholas de Groot 1995–2004 34 Canada, Guyana, West Indies Board XI Sunil Dhaniram 1993–2006 20 Canada, Guyana Haninder Dhillon 2004–2006 5 Canada Muneeb Diwan 1994 1 Essex Marshall D'Souza 1962–1964 5 Karachi B, Karachi Blues Arthur Farmer 1834–1839 10 Cambridge University, Cambridge Town Club, MCC, Surrey J. A. Gerrard 1951 1 Canada Archibald Gibson 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Cuthbert Godwin 1926 2 Somerset F. I. C. Goodman 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Lewis Gunn 1951–1954 2 Canada E. Hall 1894 1 Players of the USA Joseph Harris 1989 2 Barbados Stewart Heaney 2006 2 Canada Percy Henderson 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Arthur Hendy 1951–1954 4 Canada Frank Henry 1882 1 Middlesex Harold Heygate 1903–1919 6 Sussex Edward Hull 1902–1911 9 Jamaica, Jamaican Born Henry Humphries 1906–1913 2 Combined Canada/USA XI, Somerset Nicholas Ifill 2005 2 Canada Peter Iles 1947–1952 2 Auckland Rohan Jayasekera 1979–1982 8 Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Board President's XI, Sri Lanka Under-25s Sandeep Jyoti 2006 1 Canada Farooq Kirmani 1972–1975 17 Karachi Blues, Karachi Whites, Sind, Sind B John Lucas 1946–1954 15 Barbados, Canada Brian Magee 1954 1 Canada Ganesh Mahabir 1976–1988 33 East Trinidad, North and East Trinidad, Shell Shield XI, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies Board President's XI Bryan Mauricette 1967–1972 4 Windward Islands Don Maxwell 2004–2006 7 Canada Charles Mayo 1928 6 Somerset County Cricket Club Jerome Mellow 1965–1967 7 Combined Islands, Windward Islands Francis Morice 1886–1890 4 Wellington Asif Mulla 2004–2006 3 Canada Clement Neblett 1973–1978 6 Demerara, Guyana Edward Ogden 1883 1 USA Henry Osinde 2005–2006 5 Canada Paul Owen 1990 3 Canada Hal Padmore 1951–1954 3 Canada Ashish Patel 2004 3 Canada Jason Patraj 2004 1 Canada Alan Percival 1951–1954 5 Canada George Pitts 1914 2 Middlesex Walter Price 1904 3 Worcestershire Ravishankar Puvendran 2006 2 Canada Qaiser Ali 2005–2006 5 Canada Robert Quintrell 1954 4 Canada Brian Rajadurai 1988–1991 31 Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lankan cricket team, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka B Danny Ramnarais 1983–1987 3 Berbice, Guyana Hugh Reid 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Thomas Rilstone 1951–1954 3 Canada Basil Robinson 1947–1954 24 Canada, Oxford University Abdool Samad 2006 1 Canada Kevin Sandher 2004–2006 6 Canada Abdul Sattaur 1984–1990 10 Berbice, Guyana Stuart Saunders 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Glenroy Sealy 1965 1 Barbados Shiv Seeram 1985 1 Demerara Easan Sinnathamby 2004 1 Canada. Born at Point Pedro, Sri Lanka in 1973 and made his debut for Canada in May 2004 against the United States in the ICC Intercontinental Cup. Also played in two games in the 2006 ICC Americas Championship. Peter Stead 1954 3 Canada Zubin Surkari 2004–2005 6 Canada Tariq Javed 1964–1968 5 Karachi Education Board, Karachi University, Karachi Whites Francis Terry 1882–1885 10 Somerset Sanjayan Thuraisingam 2004 2 Canada Dean Trowse 1952–1955 22 South Australia Umar Bhatti 2004–2006 8 Canada Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee, KBE, CB, CMG 1899 1 MCC Nesbit Wallace 1863–1885 6 Gentlemen of the South, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, MCC Osmond Wallace 1904 1 Trinidad Steven Welsh 2006 1 Canada Robert Wilson 1956–1957 13 Free Foresters, Oxford University Herbert Wookey 1913 1 Combined Canada/USA XI Walter Wright 1879–1899 289 Kent, MCC, Nottinghamshire plus 16 other teams. Alfred Young 1890 1 Kent Zahid Hussain 1994–2004 6 Canada, Habib Bank Limited, Sargodha
See also Canadian cricket team List of Canadian ODI cricketers First-class cricket
References Canadian cricketers at Cricket Archive