Cricket comes to campus (The Muse)

A look at the sport’s rising popularity in Newfoundland – By Liam Herringshaw
So, here’s a question for you: What first official sport of Canada, now the world’s second-most popular sport, and is the newest arrival to the Memorial University sports scene? OK, I suspect the headline rather gives it away, but I’ll tell you the answer anyway—it’s cricket.
Many of you reading this piece probably won’t even know what cricket is, so let me start by clearing up a couple of common misconceptions. It’s not “that game on horses,” and it’s not “that game with mallets and hoops.” The former is polo; the latter, croquet. Cricket is the quintessential, summer team sport played by millions of people across the globe and, thanks to an increasingly international student population, by an ever-growing number of people here at MUN.
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NL cricket on the CBC

Board member Ashwin Gupta has put together an excellent piece for CBC radio on our development; listen to it at the CBC web site!