Ryan Bowman writes in the Record
\nCloaked 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.<\/p>\n
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. \u201cDon\u2019t throw the ball, bowl it,\u201d calls Dennis Loyola from his position behind the batter. \u201cWe\u2019re not playing baseball here, we\u2019re playing cricket.\u201d 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. 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, […]<\/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\/4225"}],"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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cUp until a few months ago, I didn\u2019t know much about cricket,\u201d says Bjorkenstam, who developed a passion for the game when he began playing with a group of co-workers last fall. \u201cBut it\u2019s a very exciting sport and there\u2019s a lot to love about it.\u201d
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