Ryan Bowman writes in the Record
Cloaked in the beams of a blazing white sun on a chilly spring day in Kitchener, a boy in a bright red baseball cap clutches a worn yellow tennis ball. With the brisk afternoon breeze to his back, he raises his right arm above his head and lunges forward, launching the ball toward a kid with a blue plastic bat in his hands.

The batter watches the ball as it sails above his shoulders, lands on the stiff green grass behind him and rolls to a halt nearly six metres away. “Don’t throw the ball, bowl it,” calls Dennis Loyola from his position behind the batter. “We’re not playing baseball here, we’re playing cricket.” Loyola is a volunteer coach with a grassroots cricket program called Cricket in Kitchener. Founded by Kitchener native Evan Bjorkenstam, the program was launched earlier this month.
“Up until a few months ago, I didn’t know much about cricket,” says Bjorkenstam, who developed a passion for the game when he began playing with a group of co-workers last fall. “But it’s a very exciting sport and there’s a lot to love about it.”
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