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 |
| John Cameron |
1906–1928 |
13 |
Gentlemen of England, Jamaica, West Indies, WG Grace's XI |
| 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 (pre county club) |
| J.A. Gerrard |
1951 |
1 |
Canada |
| Archibald Gibson |
1913 |
1 |
Combined Canada/USA XI |
| Cuthbert Godwin |
1926 |
2 |
Somerset |
| FIC Goodwin |
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 |
| Shivnath Seeram |
1985 |
1 |
Demerara |
| Easan Sinnathamby |
2004 |
1 |
Canada |
| 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 |
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