Five Steelbacks Blast winners gearing up for Canada Super 60 stints
Five of the Northants Steelbacks' Vitality Blast winning team are in Vancouver to compete in the second season of the Canada Super 60 T10 tournament.
The five players are David Willey, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Saif Zaib, Ben Sanderson and Chris Lynn.
In the six-team tournament, Willey and Lynn are part of the Montreal Royal Tigers squad, Zaib will play for Mississauga Masters, Sanderson for Vancouver Anchors and Vasconcelos for Whiterock Warriors.
Vasconcelos's Warriors are due to start the tournament at midnight tonight (Monday) UK time, and they take on Brampton Blitz, who are skippered by former Notts and England batter Alex Hales, and include James Vince, Martin Guptill, Tymal Mills and Tom Curran in their ranks.
The Warriors are captained by Sam Billings, and Vasconcelos is joined by former Northants all-rounder Dwaine Pretorious as well as former England pace bowler Jake Ball and former Australian international Kane Richardson.
The Montreal Royal Tigers then take on Toronto Sixers at 2.45am on Tuesday, before Zaib's Masters do battle with Sanderson's Vancouver Anchors at 6.45am.
The tournament will see 18 matches played at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver over the course of six days, with the semi-finals and final to be played on Sunday (Oct 4).
The stadium is normally used for football, staging staged seven matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, so very short straight boundaries are the order of the day!