Our Coaches
Our coaching staff consists of highly experienced players from various countries who have played professionally for their National teams in the past.
Naveed Jailani
Naveed Jailani is the Founder, President, and Captain of The ZMCC. As a result of his contributions to Canadian cricket over the past three decades, Naveed Jailani has become one of the premier cricketers in Canada. Furthermore, cricketing fraternities outside Canada have heaped praise on him, praising his work in the Canadian cricket ecosystem.
With an eye for talent scouting as well as with his belief in cultivating talent from a young age, Naveed Jailani and the Zohaib Memorial Cricket Club (ZMCC) have helped grow some of the brightest cricket stars in Canada such as these national Canadian Players which include : Saad Bin Zafar , Umair Ghani , Henry Osinde , Abdul Jabbar etc.
Naveed also played u19 east zone Lahore in 1989. With being one of the most decent
medium fast bowlers, Naveed was the highest Wicket taker with four man of the matches in the local Lahore east zone tournament .
Mehmood Pirzada
Mehmood Pirzada started his cricket career off with Commonwealth CC as a junior, he was a captain and won the Junior championship trophy. Mehmood then started senior cricket in 1993 in first division and took 30 wickets in his first season and made 400+ runs. He kept it up and made it to premier division where he captained and won many games. Later he joined us which was previously called grace church cricket club where he won the championship to bring the team to premiere division. He was also captain in premier division where international players played under him.
Mehmood has a big role when it comes to the development of the club as his goal is to develop and sharpen the skills of some talented juniors who have the potential to play u19 Canada
Naveed Siddiqui
Naveed Siddiqui played under 19 from Islamabad for 4 years, mostly playing red ball, 4 days matches in Pakistan domestic cricket in under 19 district. He also played against some of the best players in Pakistan such as the legend Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Yasir Arafat, Imran Tahir and Abdur Rehman. He also played for Islamabad Hawks cricket club for 8 years under the captaincy of Azhar Mehmood and played club cricket with Rao Iftikhar Anjum. He Lead FG college for men H/9 Islamabad cricket team for 2 years and also lead Federal board cricket team. He has also played in New Jersey’s cricket league from 2000 to 2002 in USA. He has been Playing in T & D since 2003 has more than 350 wickets. He also represented Yorkshire cricket club from 2003 to 2005 and from 2005 to present, he has been a one club man for Zohaib Memorial Cricket Club.
