The Eyeopener, Ryerson University’s independent student newspaper, has a long piece on the university cricket team’s recent win at the American College Championships:-
“When the match against Everest College ended, the Rams were ACC national champions for the first time, but the members of the only Canadian team at the tournament knew their victory was more than just a win for their university club.
“The cricket community within the GTA and within Canada has been supporting and watching, and they were supporting and watching us all throughout the tournament,” said Obaid Ullah, the president of Ryerson’s cricket club. “It felt like, to an extent, we were playing for Canada, not just Ryerson.”…
“Other schools seeing Ryerson performing at a high level and performing well, [hopefully gets other schools] thinking, ‘hey, maybe we should start our own clubs, maybe we should get a cricket club going’,” said Gayan Ferdinands, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student. Playing in his first ACC national tournament this year, Ferdinands recorded a hat trick
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