Cricket provides a social activity, integration into Canadian society, job opportunities, sense of family to a growing group newcomers to Moncton, New Brunswick.

by Maeve McFadden

Cricket has been a part of Venky Kulkarni’s life for more than 40 years.

He started playing the game as a young boy growing up in India and went on to play competitively.

When he moved to the United States, he played for the U.S. national team in the late 1990s. So it was an adjustment when he moved to Moncton and realized a “limited” number of people in the area played cricket.