The documentary Cricket Nation opens with a group of beer-guzzling hockey players razzing a teammate over his other passion.
Cricket, unlike football and hockey, they said, isn’t a real sport. How can it be, they chorused, when players wear white slacks and loafers — and take tea breaks?
“Playing cricket isn’t much of a challenge. I call it a soft sport,” one said, at the same time allowing he’d never seen a game, let alone played it.
“Isn’t cricket an insect?” another smirked.
The film, a portion of which follows a team from the Mississauga Ramblers Cricket Club during an annual trek to Antigua for a seniors tournament, airs Sunday (Aug. 19) in Punjabi and on Aug. 26 in English on OMNI 2 at 9 p.m.
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