United States and Canada are the two countries with lot of similarities with immigrants preferring the later for their easy PR policy.
With similarities, comes the rivalry as with India and Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand, England and Australia, the USA vs Canada cricket matches is the latest mouth watering rivaley for cricket fans all around the world.
The Canada vs USA matches are surely going to be a crowd puller, but seriously ? Is that even a thing? The USA vs Canada in cricket.
Canada and USA are the part of longest running international sporting fixture of any type, the K.A Auty Cup.
Named after Karl Andre Auty, who was born in England and moved to Chicago where he was employed with Commonwealth Edison Company, Auty was a cricket enthusiast and has been credited with keeping the sports alive in America in 1930s and 1940s. The K.A. Auty Cup, thus was named in his honor.
Started way back in 1844, when Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in a three day match in New York.
As of recent, the 2016 edition was won by Canada in a series of 3 50 over matches on the consecutive days in Los Angeles.
USA bounced back in 2017 by defeating Canada, this time in Toranto, as it was Canada’s turn to host the Auty Cup.
With both the cricket nations running into some financial problems, and then Covid 19 swept the 2 years of cricket, fans have not witnessed another edition of the Auty Cup after 2017.
But fans don’t have to wait that long, as both the teams will come face to face in the inauguration T20 match of World T20 2024 on 2nd June 2024.
The match is to be played in Grand Prairie Stadium and texas cowboys nearby will certainly want the host nation to put a cowboy sprit and give a tough challenge to their neighbours.
As for the World Cup qualifier 2027, Canada is at 4th position as of now with USA stuck at bottom in the table of 8 teams.
