Julia Wright for CBC:
Two years ago, cricket was so underplayed in Saint John that the Saint John Cricket Club had no field where they could practice.
“Last year we were practising in a parking lot,” said Vishal Vincent, vice-president of the Saint John Cricket Club.
Since then, cricket in Saint John has been on an upswing.
The team got permission to play on a disused field in Exhibition Park, “practised really hard” — and managed to get good enough to qualify for the provincial cricket finals this weekend in Fredericton, said Vincent.
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