The Canadian national team gathers in a small, dark, windowless warehouse. Not exactly what you would expect for the country’s best cricket players. Yet this is the winter home for our cricket team. Behind a suburban plaza at the corner of Markham and Ellesmere roads in Scarborough is where they train.
Rathan Moorthy, Cricket Canada’s brand and marketing manager, is trying to raise awareness and support for the program.
“This sport is tremendously underfunded in this country and we received close to about $78,000, so just under $80,000 of base funding from Sport Canada,” Moorthy said. In comparison, the Canadian Soccer Association received $3,459,500 from Sport Canada, according to the Department of Canadian Heritage. Only Ski Canada and The Peres Centre for Peace received less.
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