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\nFor Jessica Barbet, Sault College International Student Relations specialist, Saturday\u2019s First Annual Cricket Showdown at the Northern Community Centre was her second exposure to the sport, wildly popular in other countries and gaining popularity here in Sault Ste. Marie and across Canada. <\/p>\n
The Showdown marked the first time the Sault Ste. Marie Cricket Club offered free learn to play cricket workshops, organized by the club in partnership with the Sault\u2019s Local Immigration Partnership (LIP), including players from the club and cricket-loving members of Sault College and Algoma University\u2019s international student community.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast Saturday we played at the college in the old gym. It was my first time playing cricket. It was fascinating. It\u2019s fun to learn a new sport. I didn\u2019t throw the ball but I batted. It\u2019s like baseball but it\u2019s a different type of bat (using a leather ball) and you swing the bat differently, underneath and up. It was lots of fun,\u201d said Barbet, speaking to SooToday. From Soo Today:- For Jessica Barbet, Sault College International Student Relations specialist, Saturday\u2019s First Annual Cricket Showdown at the Northern Community Centre was her second exposure to the sport, wildly popular in other countries and gaining popularity here in Sault Ste. Marie and across Canada. The Showdown marked the first time the Sault Ste. Marie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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