Tony Munro

	Trevin Bastiampillai will spend the winter playing cricket during the Australian summer © Eddie Norfolk

One member each from Canadian men's and women's national teams will each spend the northern hemisphere winter playing club cricket in Sydney.

Trevin Bastiampillai, the Sri Lankan-born batsman,who has played six first-class matches and five ODIs for Canada, will play with Blacktown in the Sydney Grade competition.

Nineteen-year-old Monali Patel, from Tranzac CC in the Toronto & District league, will play for St George-Sutherland in the Sydney women's competition.