Womens’ cricket at Ryerson

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“It’s not only new to the school, it’s new to the women on the team. It’s extracurricular, but I think it’s an extra mile of extra-curricular because we’re learning from scratch,” said Hirra Farooqi, the director of Ryerson’s women’s cricket team as well as the acting captain.

Farooqi, a third-year journalism student, was inspired to start a team at Ryerson in April 2017 after seeing the success of women’s cricket at the University of Waterloo. Other schools, including Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, have added women’s teams in recent years as well.

With Ryerson’s men’s cricket team having already developed a winning culture since starting in 2015, Farooqi felt women should also have the opportunity to represent their school.

“Even just watching [cricket] on TV, the representation has always been male-dominated,” said Farooqi. This lack of representation led her to believe there might be a lack of interest from female students at Ryerson, but she was quickly proven wrong.
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