Winnipeg’s cricket community is chirping with glee over its new pitch. A new artificial turf cricket pitch opened Sunday on the school grounds of Elwick Community School in The Maples. It’s the first of its kind in the city. Families from the city’s Indian, Pakistani and Afghani communities flocked to see it. Winnipeg’s seven other pitches in the city use large, heavy mats. Maples Community Centre cricket chair and coach, Kamta Roy Singh, said it used to take kids an hour to get the field ready. But not any more.
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